Reese, one of Michelle Obama's go-to designers, is known (and loved) for her feminine frills, pretty prints and darling details.
Coco Chanel's rise began during World War One Her frills-free designs chimed with the straitened times.
Have a rummage through your mum's closet for the stuff that made her squirm a decade ago; frills, boyfriend jeans, particularly ugly pointy-toed shoes, the kind of stuff the man-repeller wouldn't wear for fear of being too repellent.
Beyoncé begins as a wealthy housewife in a lovely dress, but over the course of the video, we watch her shed these frills so she can fight for love.
If you try to act hard, rude, serious or other when in truth you're a kind, natured girl who happens to like chunky boots and tartan skirts with her bows and frills then you're going to come off as fake and boring.
There is something hypnotic about the twirling dancer and the frills of her dress.
She looks fabulous, of course – in Marc Jacobs sequins and frills with her hair wet.
The frills on her frock, and the cell phones and legal details in his novel, are equally the mere expression of an an entire way of life, and, seen artistically, even of an entire life.
The light in this hermetic frame glosses the fine planes of her face and neck, the frill of her hair, and the ruching of a velvet gown.
The show, a retrospective of the Malaysian-born designer's work since the early 1980's, showcases her signature low-frills, high-tech style -- which, though conceived in a more buoyant climate, seems oddly attuned to today's mood.
