Sentence examples for extravagant materials from inspiring English sources

In the words of Manolo Blahnik, whose metal snake sandals the model Naomi Campbell clanked out on at Dior: "For me couture means designing the maddest things in the most extravagant materials"....[The] sandal by Manolo Blahnik for John Galliano at Christian Dior was entwined in a metal serpent with a cut-glass head.

"There was not much room for extravagant materials or high-tech gadgets", says Ronny Sauer, one of Form & Drang's founders.

Tight spaces should stay free of extravagant materials in order to not make the space seem confined.

Extravagant material and emotional resources are invested in the welfare and appeasement of fretful ancestors.

He's a realist handling comically extravagant material, and he does little more than competently frame a mixed set of performances.

Manufacturers have courted younger buyers in part, he said, with exuberantly styled watches using extravagant or offbeat materials: brightly colored plastic, rubber, ceramic.

"What [Ceder and Kang have] done is to really improve the performance of the material without extravagant costs," says Kurt van de Putte, a business manager at Umicorp.

In the West, Russia is seen as a middle-income country with important raw materials and a few extravagant oligarchs; in Central Asia and the Caucasus, it is considered the land of opportunity.