Costume designer Kate Hawley contributed a gritty aesthetic design for the color palettes and surface treatments.
Even working within the constraints of a book cover template (including title and author, or, for a series, matching the design to a set aesthetic), the designer's creativity can shine through, encouraging you to grab this book, not that one, from the store display. .
True to his aesthetic, the designer showed trousers, which are so rare on couture runways, teaming them perhaps with a shapely peplum jacket.
Focusing on pants, which gave a sporty feel to the Rodriguez urban aesthetic, the designer would insert a flap of color at the neck or work with drapes.
"So much of the styling, the fit and the prints of the Fifties are key to the LTD aesthetic," LTD designer Nick Eley says.
Playing off her prim-with-an-edge aesthetic, the designer Rebecca Minkoff took her first step into the jewelry business with a costume bijoux collection that follows suit: punky bangles in yellow gold with a faux pavé trim come with matching studs; black crystals set on silver metal mimick a rivière-style necklace; and neon yellow enamel earrings mix Art Deco modernism with space-age slickness.
Other designers, casting about in search of an identity, turned to Mr. Lang and his aesthetic kinfolk, designers who dispensed with the bombastic femininity that defined the '80s in favor of a look that was simultaneously decorous and perverse.
You can see it on the runway, in an aesthetic that designers and hairstylists called "individuality" and that we called "no-hairstyle hair".
W. GODWIN: AESTHETIC MOVEMENT ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER," Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 18 West 86th Street, (212) 501-3000 (through Sunday).
Eight DSD programs (Photoshop CS6, Keynote, Planmeca Romexis Smile Design, Cerec SW 4.2, Aesthetic Digital Smile Design, Smile Designer Pro, DSD App and VisagiSMile) were compared.
