In Ford's new system, the three coats of paint a car requires (primer, base, and clear coat) can be applied without drying in between something Ford calls "wet wet wet" painting.
The deposition of the successive coating layers on a car body involves complex physical and chemical processes, with many variants.
Ms. Spade, at center, shown cradling her Maltese, Henry, has designed a pieced-canvas duvet, $450 (right), with the broad stripes of a car coat she designed a few seasons ago.
The next shot shows him laid on the road in front of a car as its driver, a woman in a red coat, rushes to check on him.
In one photo, Sylvan — wearing a fur coat, orange sunglasses and a soft smile — peeks at the camera from the front seat of a car.
In some places, the water had receded, leaving a coating of mud and cars parked haphazardly wherever their owners managed to leave them, on median strips and even in the middle of moving traffic lanes.
Lucky for me, New York is the city of coats: real coats, not car coats, for in this town we walk, even if only to catch the bus.
By Patricia Marx New York is the city of coats: real coats, not car coats, for in this city we walk.
He notes how raindrops or a light coating of snow can make a car look heroic, how an urban-grit backdrop of garbage cans and trash bags can enhance a car's swagger, how a well-placed dent can look like a duelling scar.
The Look This Valentino cardigan morphs into a car coat, an example of fall's trend of hybrid pieces.
A pleasant-looking young man with a slightly pudgy face, wearing glasses and for most of the performance a car coat, Mr. Fatone is quite comfortable on the stage; he fits in up there, performing choreographed maneuvers with the practiced enthusiasm of someone who is used to being a cog in a well-oiled machine.
