Dog shows are essentially fashion shows, after all, demonstrations of the many ways that selective breeding can be used to accommodate alterations in taste.
Essentially fashion-conscious, late-teenage women, their look is defined by a kind of glam sassiness – sculpted hair, lavish but precise makeup and mini skirts.
While the shows from John Galliano and of the late Alexander McQueen in the 1990s were unforgettable experiences, from liaisons dangereuses of historic figures to disturbing suggestions of a lunatic asylum, those creative expressions were essentially fashion as theater.
Both of these images have a high level of authority and visual charge that's at odds with the more nurturing and benign Madonna, but they are essentially fashion photographs of models who are well practised at posing.
The advantage is that the values of our age are essentially those fashioned by social democracy.
After a couple of knocks on the rubber door which the makers have sensibly essentially not fashioned in the shape of a vagina—I realize that the key will probably need to be greased if it intends to open this particular lock, so I get a small amount of the lotion and oil the wee guy up.
"The ground rules at Guant?mo are essentially designed and fashioned in a manner that allows us to keep those proceedings as open as possible," said Bryan G. Whitman, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary for public affairs.
Inspired by horses and other digitigrades, Ms. Graham built what is essentially a pair of stilts fashioned to resemble legs.
Each type of Pike car was produced in limited numbers, essentially as fashion accessories for hip young Japanese.
Although never accorded royal status by the Chinese, the Nguyen ruled over southern Vietnam in an essentially independent fashion.
