Meet Yang Li, a designer putting China on fashion's biggest stage

PARIS -- Designer Yang Li was standing outside his rather sterile showroom on a narrow stone street amid the elegant architecture of the fashion world's capital, taking a break from the droning task of looking at clothes, selling clothes and talking about clothes to have a cigarette. Li's shoulder-length black hair, parted down the center, hangs across his back. He wears several small silver hoops in his ears and his black shirt is buttoned to his neck. And he is still. Calm. Tranquil.