The show was all mixed signals: terrific black gingham dresses, with jackets in red or purple twill, and then blossoming Turkish-style trousers and high-steppin' fishnets.
The only opportunity in the United States to see a sweeping exhibition of 200 of the designer's haute couture garments, plus photographs, drawings and films that illustrate the blossoming of his style, from his early days at Dior in 1958 to his retirement in 2002, and the historical foundations of his work.
Jancsó's highly personal style had blossomed in this, his fifth feature.
"Laura" is sly and haunting — a Park Avenue ghost movie that anticipates the dark-shadowed noir style that blossomed in Preminger's work later in the forties.
Mr. Borden offered an overview that showed not only how his style has blossomed since his first Minimalist days, but also how flexible his early works are.
These are little more than cameos, but with Mr. Anthony's bright voice and superb sense of musical style, they blossomed into fully realized portraits.
But those Minimalist figures regularly blossom into more complex styles: late Brahmsian string writing and Vaughan Williams-like choral polyphony, for example.
Although it was surpassed in musical and dramatic intensity by the first true operas (those of Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini), it was one of the earliest examples of the monodic recitative style that blossomed in early opera.
Recommended dishes -- Lettuce root salad, winter melon soup with white chives, Sichuan-spiced sesame beef (cold), Sichuan-style noodles, "blossom" chicken, chicken dumplings in red oil, shrimp with chili sauce, whole sea bass with tofu, chicken in white sauce with lettuce root, sautéed cucumber and silk squash, duck pressed with cashews, sweet fermented rice soup (dessert).
"They allow you to get creative, she said, thinking nothing of mating, say, outsize blossoms with Liberty-style micro-florals.
One of his signature brews is a blond ale brewed with orange blossom honey, and the delicate style demonstrates Brewer's skill and attention to detail.
