Germain connects the dots in a rudimentary fashion to explain how Dr. Westheimer found her way into sex therapy and became a popular media figure.
Some in the industry point to the economy and the conservative tenor of most mainstream fashion magazines to explain this development.
If you ask members of the fashion community to explain the current popularity of cashmere, you'll be told that the fabric's understated luxury is well suited to a cultural moment in which unshowy self-indulgence is the highest ideal — a moment when a perfectly tailored but unobtrusive Jil Sander suit is better than a gold-buttoned Chanel two-piece.
The two postulated pathways acting in an additive fashion sufficed to explain bacterial induction of SAR and PR-1 gene expression.
It also seems to be exerting an influence on men's fashion: how else to explain first the return of the cravat and now the smoking jacket.
In 2000, when I wrote a long article about Mr. Alaïa, François Lesage, the embroiderer, said, "It's easier to look at Azzedine's place in the fashion world than to explain it".
Francois Lesage, the embroidery maker, who has known Mr. Alaia for years, said: "It is easier to look at Azzedine's place in the fashion world than to explain it.
Then, of course, in true administrative muckety-muck fashion, officials declined to explain what documents specifically were confidential, why they were confidential and what school rules explicitly forbid their release.
To explain: fashion folk are fashion folk because they have style.
Country pubs dispensed less beer and city brewers laid off staff.' Ferguson, a Scots professor at Harvard more attuned to philosophical fashion, invokes chaos theory to explain how the prospect of default on self-cert mortgages to African-Americans on Detroit's West Outer Drive causes a bank run in Newcastle upon Tyne.
