To outfit your personal palace, hit the local shop of Pasabahce (Tesvikiye Caddesi 117; 90-212-233-5005; www.pasabahce.com.tr) for smooth vases covered in Islamic geometric patterns, jewelry boxes adorned with Byzantine mosaics and ceramic coasters with faded kilim designs.
Another highlight was the label E. Tautz, the ready-to-wear division of the Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons, which was acquired in 2005 by Patrick Grant, a young designer who sold his house and car to buy the fading design house.
Wipe the brush clean on the bottle, then drag the glitter down towards your cuticle to do a fade design on top of your original polish.
In a closet in the bedroom, Hastreiter has bags of luxury-label knockoffs; limited-edition artist sneakers; rare Manolo Blahnik shoes (he is an old friend); and a number of folded, gently fading knits designed by Keith Haring and Vivienne Westwood, a collaboration orchestrated by Hastreiter, who knew them both.
Others bore only a small brick of mud and straw, and one mounded grave was covered by a hand-made carpet, its nomadic design faded by time and sun.
However, once the T-shirts were taken home and washed, the design faded away to reveal a message that read: "What your T-shirt can do, so can you – we'll help you break with right-wing extremism".
Those Melmac dishes bore pathetic designs — a faded rosebud, a sheaf of wheat — intended to recall fine porcelain.
By the time the World Trade Center was built these memories had faded, and it was designed with minimum fireproofing.
The colors of spring and summer have faded, but the garden, designed by the parks department veteran Edie Kean, still casts a spell in green.
In almost all of them, distress is built in, whether it's through the use of a faded leather or through design that anticipates the way the boot will change as it wears in, and beats it to the punch.
