Apart from Kelly, one of the important influences in the learning curve of Dreyfus' career was Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck. He described hungrily walking around Antwerp with him late at night in the search of French fries and talking freely when images and inspirations started to coagulate and crystallized into a succinct mood and direction for a show. "First it's a collection," he explained. "Second it's the spirit of the designer. And third, it's the emotion you feel." "If I'm working a very long time with designers it's about sharing and exchanging," he says. He started working with Hedi Slimane for the latter's penultimate collection at Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, and since then he has helped bring Slimane's ideas to life -- in shows at the Milan Dior Homme store and in Slimane's exhibition at Pitti Immagine last year. And he works magic with his lighting techniques. At the Lyon Biennale in 2000 he suspended a surface in the air between buildings and projected images recorded in real time of a sunny daytime sky. As night fell, the small patch of sky remained and people gathered in awe, couples arms wrapped around each other gazing at fluffy white clouds scuttling across a slice of the heavens. "This emotion we share will help people escape from this empty economic and intellectual point of view," Dreyfus explains. As a further exploration of his work with light Dreyfus has started to photograph it and its effects, obsessed with how each time the light has the power to create something new and exciting. He currently has the vague notion of possibly getting together an exhibition of his photographic work, possibly in London, at some future date, "certainly some day."