Cowrie-shell necklaces, knock-off watches, and chrome-studded belts.
The street rally includes chrome-studded belts by Michael Kors, chain jewelry, chunky chain handles on handbags, and from Oscar de la Renta, a biker jacket edged in fur and studded in a baroque pattern.
So now we ask, 'Do you want the roast-beef gravy or don't you?'" Yes, he said, he could have been making lots of money as a contractor after Katrina — he still wears a chrome measuring tape on his belt — "but sandwiches are a lot more popular now than contractors".
This season, the look is lean and aggressive, with slim skirts done in panels of silk cord and shown with small jackets or coats, their leather belts decorated after Chrome Hearts.
I admired an eggplant-colored dress with a zipper down the front, tailored front pockets and a belt like two black leather bungee cords attached by a chrome binder-ring ($872).
Sit at one of the chrome-trimmed tables and watch the doughnuts travel on the shiny conveyor belt to fill your order.
You glimpse the man's belt, where a large black pistol sits in a holster, and then up to the chrome badge on his clean gray shirt.
Each of the two higher-priced models comes with an exquisitely designed belt-clip carrying case, a recharging-synchronizing dock and a wired remote control in gleaming chrome.
A chrome barbed-wire motif that Mr. Wang used around the ankle of a boot, for example, would become a fine string bow elsewhere on an outfit, like a belt, creating a tension between edge and beauty.
