It was conceived as an exercise in creating what its designers hoped would be considered the ultimate road car.

The dozen or so designers showing this week are hoping to get store orders early to facilitate shipping their spring clothes in January.

And the camera for making extremely precise images of faint objects will not function as designers had hoped.

Much celebrated, the system has been imitated less often than its designers hoped.

It cast a small shadow, which the designers hope to fix.

And all other designers can hope for is to be the antidote to that potent potion.

But the designers hoped the furnishings would keep them home, in a controlled recording environment - décor as social engineering.

The only thing a designer can even hope to control is the clothes.

The designers also hope to dispel some misconceptions about their industry.

As a result, the mirror was deformed and it is unable to produce the precise images its designers hoped to achieve.