This time, shades of terra cotta and rust, a zebra-like pattern or a surface crunchy with macramé gave a deeper dimension to the design duo's graceful clothes.
"It was about diversity — trying to do something different and all about technique," said the Olsen sisters, Mary-Kate and Ashley, after The Row collection of graceful clothes that had a romantic simplicity.
Such clothes are not a buyer's delight — although you could pick out a slender suit here and a graceful dress there.
At that time, it was as though he were announcing, "You want graceful, feminine modern clothes?
His debut for Balenciaga was smart and graceful, and the streamlined clothes advanced the codes in a modern way.
Our renaissance will equal the measure of our conscience,'' he added, because ''we carry within us a treasure beyond value: imagination.'' French ingenuity at pleasing the senses — whether through food, wine, fine clothes or graceful buildings — has survived and indeed thrived for many centuries, and Castelbajac, himself a veteran of invention, can doubtless bank on it safely once more.
The American historian Retha M. Warnicke writes that Anne was "the perfect woman courtier... her carriage was graceful and her French clothes were pleasing and stylish; she danced with ease, had a pleasant singing voice, played the lute and several other musical instruments well, and spoke French fluently.
Go and see him, be nice to him, as he deserves, and tell everybody that he is no mere acrobat in women's clothes, nor just a graceful daredevil, but one of the most beautiful things in the theatre.
Go and see him... and tell everybody that he is no mere acrobat in women's clothes, nor just a graceful daredevil, but one of the most beautiful things in the theatre.
Veronique Branquinho and Bernhard Willhelm were on a similar wave-length, with clothes that hovered between being astonishingly graceful and inexplicably dowdy.
The twin sister designers Barbara and Lucia Croce, whose first full collection will be shown in Paris this season, have said that they try to follow the feminine, graceful lines of Madame Vionnet and her famous drapes, while making clothes appropriate to modern times.
