Article: The Sweater Girl: cult-favorite designer Tess Giberson raises her profile at the helm of TSE.(Tse Cashmere)

Pinned to the bulletin board in Tess Giberson's office at TSE's headquarters in New York's Meatpacking District is a typed list of names for colors. There are up to 80 possibilities for each. It's an unexpected tidbit of poetry: Purple masquerades as royal, hendrix, concord or berry. Pink goes under the alias of piglet, flushed, debutante or ballerina. White is alaska, purity, gesso or everest.

Are the suggestions from a book? A company that specializes in such things? None of the above, actually. "I was just brainstorming," Giberson explains. "You're constantly having to name colors. I just keep a running list.

"I like making lists," she adds, with an ...

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