Derisively, you could say that black jersey dresses bunched at the bosom with roses resembled those of Sonia Rykiel, that tight fanny skirts in glossy, puckered satin will be next season's down-market trend, and that if these clothes appeared under the name of a less distinguished house, nobody would pay attention.
Topsy came from a distinguished family.
Arcimboldi grew up in a distinguished family.
The room it occupied happened to be around the corner from Simpson'sdepartment store, a distinguished Montreal house, and Vogue's letterhead bore a photograph of Simpson's facade.
"They always say, 'My God, a grandmother lived here!"' -- P.V. 'Even a distinguished modern house can make room for the next generation -- especially when the design DNA is there.' -- Pilar Viladas.
Calasso's "folly" cannot escape his playing favorites, perhaps the willfulness of the privileged child of a highly cultured and prominent family, as well as the literary freedom available for lifelong work at a distinguished publishing house, whose chairman Calasso became in 1999.
Harrison writes, "This book gathered dust for years... until the Feminist Press decided to publish it (but not, apparently, to edit it)." She then quotes "an editor with a distinguished publishing house" who rejected what Harrison assumes was the same book that the Feminist Press published.
When Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins were first in discussions about the book that would become The MEATliquor Chronicles, their publisher pointed out that Faber & Faber, the distinguished house that brought the world TS Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon and Sylvia Plath, didn't really do cookbooks.
It has concentrated on distinguished houses.
But it did have "the kind of neighborhood I didn't think existed," Ms. Graham said, with distinguished houses, graceful streets and mature trees.
