They are the Veuve Clicquot not only of the slaughtered-and-butchered-fur-coat world but also of the wiggly-squiggly-cute-pet arena.
"We are incredibly fortunate to have such a rich and diverse history and I am constantly inspired — whether it's an officer's coat from World War I, something Thomas Burberry wrote or said (in his book "Open Spaces"), or a beautiful image.
And then, once Homo sapiens coated the world, there were thousands of languages.
As the creative director of Burberry — a 153-year-old brand that has 97 stores worldwide — Christopher Bailey has the dual task of paying tribute to the house's storied past (British soldiers wore Burberry trench coats during World War I) while bucking convention.
Watch how it settles on everything around you, coating the world is a soft powder.
Realizing that snow will close the school, she uses cotton and feathers and all kinds of other stuff to coat the model world in white.
He cautiously patted the sharp-clawed bear's coat for the world's press and announced he would adopt Knut as a mascot for an international environment conference in Berlin next year.
(He wrote that movie script, too, but blamed the producers and the director, Herbert Ross, for not understanding it, coating his dark world with glitz).
And augmented reality (AR) technology, which allows travelers to navigate their way to nearby attractions by aiming a smartphone in any direction, weaves together all those geodata points into a miniaturized virtual world coated with zesty little information bubbles.
Or no, I could see — the pulsing L.E.D. display on the clock radio, the mounds of laundry and discarded clothes humped round the room like the tumuli of the dead, a hard-driving rain drooling down the dark vacancy of the window — but everything seemed to have a film over it, a world coated in Vaseline.
The New York Times review of Ta-Nehisi Coats Between the World and Me, written as a letter to his 14 year old son, was reviewed in the New York Times as naïve about the progress that has been made for racial justice in this country, Barack Obama and all.
