It's a confidence that appears to have paid off. Both her white china set and wine glasses are as elegant as anything she's fashioned using scissors. And the good news is that you don't have to be getting married to enjoy her trademark elegance.

Also keen to replicate its style in the home is Italian denim brand Diesel, which has been collaborating with furniture house Moroso. Its white sofa is minimalist, while its indigo version shares the traditional colour and comfort of denim.

Diesel has also been working with lighting company Foscarini for designs that combine an industrial severity with the fresh colours of the catwalk. Its Cage lamp was inspired by the shape of miners' lamps. Constructed of blown glass and lacquered metal, the metal cage that holds the light wouldn't look out of place in a nightclub or bar.

The Stud lamp is perhaps less flashy but still manages some night-time glamour thanks to its shape, which recalls a microphone.

Fashion designers are clearly enjoying their experiments with decor, but just how different is it to design for the home and not the body?

'Designing for the home is exciting because the same techniques that we explore in clothing are what we're trying to express for the home,' says Wang. 'That's an extremely modern concept, and a concept that lets us approach design from a totally fresh way.'

Giorgio Armani would no doubt agree with Wang. Through Armani Casa, the master of minimalism has been helping homeowners achieve the smooth silhouette of his tailoring. Perfect examples are the sleek Botticelli bed enhanced by a silver fabric headboard. The Cezanne bed is upholstered in the collection's standard fabrics or in leather, and the frame is in rosewood.

Wang's and Armani's interior collections complement their couture designs. Fans of these international stars will even go so far as to adopt their entire look from the wardrobe to the kitchen but not all designers want to go it alone.

When interiors and fashion houses join forces, the effects can be dramatic. It's a strategy that works for French company Roche Bobois, whose sofas and chairs have been covered with A-list favourite Ungaro's sensual textiles.

The Nuage chair's metal legs and sensible shape might earmark it for the office but one touch of its lavish softness might convince you to place it elsewhere. Swathed in the kind of fabrics more commonly used to cover the curves of stars such as Lindsay Lohan, the Avante Propos sofa invites relaxation. The French fashion maestro's fondness for colour has also been extended to the cushion range, which lights up in fuchsia and burgundy.

Also taking textiles into the living room is Italian fashion brand Missoni, which recently celebrated the first-year anniversary of its boutique opening at the Gateway Arcade in Tsim Sha Tsui. Drawing on a palette inspired by the wild colours and dramatic frames of cacti, Missoni has come up with cushions that play with tones of desert blue, pear green and wild violet. Freed from their familiar fashion trademark of twee primary-colour stripes, Missoni's designers have also produced footstools emblazoned with sharp, shadowy foliage and innovatively prickly rugs.

Couture and decor may be part of the same package for many of the world's leading tailors. But it is what they are fashioning for our homes that makes us sit up and take notice.