Vogue Australia

Air waves

f Sir James Dyson is angry, he’s certainly not showing it. The impeccably polite 76-year-old inventor, philanthropist, and founder and chairman of Dyson is sitting in his lightfilled corner office at the company’s UK campus, handling a teeny tiny heater (“the smallest in the world!” he says) developed by his team to squeeze into the handle of one of the brand’s to-be-released hair dryers. Still, when quizzed on the driving force behind such innovation, he’s characteristically honest. “I always say it’s anger. Engineers are never satisfied. And they always want to make

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