"But I had this lovely jacket that a relation had brought David – a beautiful jacket – and Ali and David are the same height and build, so I chose to give that jacket to Ali, and I am happy I did.
Mr. Lacroix's homage included some dramatic coats, a cash-and-carry jacket, a lovely green silk crepe evening, and a number of Schiap-like accessories, including a chimney hat and fur-topped booties that sort of spilled around the ankles.
I had a captive audience of two collectors in high heeled boots, one very good oil painter in a brown corduroy jacket, and a lovely man with a huge, slightly distracting nose.
He has only a limited amount of storage space, so he is making constant evaluations: which will sell quicker, this computer paperback, published a year ago, or this handsome copy, a lovely first edition with a dust jacket, of Francis Steegmuller's "Flaubert and Madame Bovary"?
Back in the realm of the realistically priced, I'd suggest ASOS, which has a brilliant range of fun and furry jackets and coats; Urban Outfitters also has some excellent fur fakery; and among the zingier pieces Miss Selfridge has very cosy-looking jackets with a lovely vintage styling.
My Morning Jacket turns in a lovely "Long as I Can See the Light," a ballad beloved to Creedence obsessives but which casual fans may only know as the last song on "Cosmo's Factory".
The higher end of the company's men's offerings was here, like a lovely and surprisingly modest all-white shawl-collar dinner jacket ($525).
"It forms a lovely heart-rot, with the tree around forming a warm jacket, like a thermos flask," he says.
Here was a lovely young college girl in jeans, wool ski hat and down jacket.
And when Mr. Rodriguez showed suits, they had a lovely economy, with the merest hint of volume in the cut of the jacket.
Far out or not, the collection's strong points included circular-shaped jackets in lunar white, a chunky shearling coat and a lovely earthbound bomber in black fur and shearling with a ribbed knit collar.
