The Globe and Mail

When British superstar architect Will Alsop heard about the chance to create one of four experimental "concept spaces" at Toronto's Interior Design Show, which opened yesterday at Exhibition Place, he suggested to Kim Storey and James Brown of the Toronto firm Brown & Storey, "Well, let's make a frock." And so they did. The resulting Frock is 12 metres high, and is covered with pure silk in a shade project manager Caroline Robbie calls "lipstick pink." Robbie, who is an interior designer and works with the Alsop office in Toronto, says that when you walk into the Frock, you really don't feel you're inside -- or under -- a skirt at all. "We've heard all the jokes already," laughs Robbie, "and being inside it is not like looking up somebody's skirt. Rather, you'd think you were in a sumptuous raj tent."