But fiscal responsibility sometimes got lost between designer clothes, piano lessons and a cell phone.
So why not just wrap her in designer clothes and be done with it?
The heck with the peer pressure of the haves and have nots based on designer clothes.
Bond Street is decidedly upmarket, with exclusive jewelers, designer clothes stores and auction houses, including Sotheby's.
Two years later Women's Wear Daily and Vogue Japan ran spreads showing the doll wearing miniature designer clothes.
The firm has been criticized for copying designer clothes and has been sued about 50 times for copyright infringement.
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Her home was crammed with designer clothes, fancy glassware and the latest CDs.
Women with a taste for designer clothes and a handsome clothing budget are not left out of the shop-at-home experience.
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One is to shop vintage and consignment shops, where you can get secondhand designer clothes for a fraction of their original price.
Clarke has no taste for designer clothes, sound bites or talking heads.
Maybe it was the fact that my friend was dressed from head to foot in designer clothes that aroused the officer's suspicions.
They say they crossed the Sahara on foot, but many cruise the camp decked in gold chains, designer clothes and mobile phones.
Several lines of high-quality (and relatively high price-point) designer clothes are being sold at small social gatherings reminiscent of Tupperware parties, or one on one.
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She learned that skill as a child from her mother, who often took her to New York's Loehmann's, which sells designer clothes at discount prices.
Although designer clothes are not cheap anywhere in the world, Mrs Alfonso says that her prices depend on the client that she is working for.
They digitally clone themselves to create a picture where two or more sets of twins dressed in designer clothes, traditional Muslims garb or military uniforms act out contradictory and stereotypical behaviours.
Watching Halbreich reign over racks of gorgeous designer clothes like a charming, acerbic spirit guide (albeit for outfits), I was instantly reminded of an equally sharp-tongued mentor from my grad school days, Nina Foch.
They are also freer from the numerous "status competitions" (the social pressure to drive a fancy car, wear designer clothes, enroll the children in private schools and take European vacations) that further drive up the cost of living in big cities and suburbs.
On a single morning at Roman Road market in Bow, you'll pass designer clothes, donuts the size of your head, pirate DVDs, and the stall whose chief product appears to be thermal socks (my personal favorite), before nipping into east London institution G.
But as a costume designer, Patrick is a fantastic clothes designer.
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Behind a Gaudiesque facade is Psyche, a designer-clothes shop.
With such associations, it's no wonder the designer's clothes are often described as rock, punk or Goth.
She is now an internationally recognised, extremely successful clothes designer: a bone fide member of the fashion elite who prefers being part of the manufacturing world of designer dresses, and not that of manufactured environment of girl bands.
Ms Bruni worked for several years as a super-model, earning accolades from British clothes designer John Galliano who described her in the film as being "like a silent movie actress with her body language - the dress is her script".
All of the leading retailers have tried to spruce up their online act during the downturn, but few have done as well as start-ups such as Gilt Groupe, which uses social networking to carry out discounted sales of designer-label clothes and homeware, and luxury holidays.
The designer says she likes her clothes to make the wearer feel at once defiant and protected.
Her muse, Marguerite, was now an adult, and the designer channeled her energies into creating clothes for young women: drop-waisted, loose gowns with copious beading and embroidery.
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Or, you can skip the brand names and get well-made, attractive clothes, shoes and handbags for a lot less than the designer labels.
This is not the kind of answer I expect from a designer when asked about his own fashion essentials, especially one who started sketching and sewing clothes at age six.
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