He also marvels at the $2 million makeover that a hot young designer, Marc Newson, gave a private jet a couple of years back.

He is this year's hottest new designer.

Buyers, manufacturers and journalists combed the city in vain for the next hot designer and must-have chair.

But it was his use of Lycra in miniskirts and wrap tops that made him a hot underground designer.

Unlike in the free-spending 80's, hot young designers do not routinely command big royalties unless their lines make a profit.

The idea that a young hot designer could declare leather inessential to fashion sent a chill down Seventh Avenue.

His girlfriend, Kelly Lasser, is one of San Francisco's hot interior designers.

He got the hottest designer in the world.

Her magazine is lengthening its lead over its competition, and she all but invented several of the hotter designers at Fashion Week.

Honolulu magazine named him one of Hawaii's hottest designers.