Kate, wearing a duck-egg blue empire-line Emilia Wickstead cocktail dress and dusky blue heels, said: "I am a firm believer in the power of art to make a difference and The Art Room is doing that on a daily basis.
The populations still vulnerable to collapse, experts said, include whites, duskies and hammerheads.
"Some people say Israel is an American state, but I say America is an Israeli state," said Muhammed Nabil, sitting in his candy stall in the dusky warren of figs, fresh meat and sneakers that is the Nablus market.
"It's not just a ballet, it's a great celebration and quite a fashion event," the artist Anh Duong said, as she glided into the Koch theater in a dusky number by Giambattista Valli.
"They like warm, humid weather and often come out on dusky summer evenings," he says, wistfully.
He himself has light skin and blue eyes, which he said punctured the widespread stereotype that Roma have dark hair and dusky complexions.
In contrast, Mr. Blier said, Alma Mahler's "Balmy Summer Night," elegantly conveyed by Ms. Lindsey's appealingly dusky mezzo, sounded "feline and feminine".
Jones said Dhu had no pulse, her body appeared cold, her skin was dusky and her lips had a tinge of blue.
"Look at him," she said, pointing out how the yellow in Oregón's skin had darkened into a dusky brown.
If I can use their advertising dollars why not?" Charles Denton, the chief executive of Erno Laszlo, which created the Sea Mud Deep Cleansing Bar, a black soap, in 1952, said he was unfazed when Lush, the Britain-based beauty chain, came out with the dusky Coal Face.
