Traditionally, those processes are handled by the physical shipping of sample garments from one continent to another.

However, it may take months to produce a sample garment in a desired fabric simply because that fabric takes months to make.

For one of his Wynn collections, he spent $30,000 on fabric for a relatively small number of sample garments.

Her duties include showing sample garments to editors, attending design meetings and doing a variety of odd jobs.

She took out and put aside the sample garment.

Finally, a sample garment is made up and tested on a model to make sure it is an operational outfit.

The images were shown to clients, which was much cheaper than producing an actual sample garment in the workroom.

Ms. Behar, who had received the fabric two hours before, had a finished sample garment ready by the end of the day.

Later in the film, the designer asks Momoko to embroider a sample garment which accidentally came back plain.

Note that this entire design sequence can take as little as part of a day, yielding a sample garment hung on a mannequin.