The Iconic collection echoed the mood at Gucci, where designer Frida Giannini's suede and safari chic ran in a similar groove.
And oddly, instead of sounding like a blast from the past, it sounds timely, because rather than simply summoning the spirit of the festive season, it also echoes the mood of the year that has passed.
Mal Peet's Tamar (2005), winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's books, echoed the mood of adult novels, with their current emphasis on the long-range impact of historical forces in shaping the lives of individuals.
In her most pared-down collection for several seasons, McCartney echoed the mood of recent influential collections by Philo for Celine, with double-breasted cashmere coats and slim, crease-fronted trousers that won the instant approval of the audience.
Prof. Efraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, said in an interview that the Israeli statements "echoed the mood of the country" in the same week that it marked Remembrance Day for its fallen soldiers and celebrated 65 years of independence.
Recent advertising has echoed the mood with Cara Delevingne posing among a group of boys in a DKNY campaign and Julia Roberts posing in sharp, masculine tailoring for Givenchy.
Another wrote that he or she foresaw in business "less hubris, more humility and appreciation for the individual customer," picking up on an undercurrent in survey responses that spoke to a less feckless and more sober tone to business and investment for a while, echoing the mood of the country.
"We weren't expecting it to take so long," says a jaded Brussels official.Ministers in Bucharest and Sofia echo the weary mood.
Anyone's initial reaction to George Crumb's "Black Angels," a 1970 composition for amplified string quartet meant to echo the dark mood of the Vietnam War era, is likely to be a strong one.
