"The size is impressive, but the silhouette is no longer," George Hiotis, 59, said of the Queen Mary 2, which arrived last Thursday on its maiden trip to New York.
The shapes are not a huge departure from his past few seasons: a long, slender silhouette, neutral tones, impressive embroidery with an organic, three-dimensional feel.
Local amateur choirs sing here at night, and artists set up their easels, painting the predictable caricatures of tourists along with more impressive pastel landscape images and silhouettes of Andean women in bowler hats.
His first monument to himself, Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-sixth Street, which opened its doors in 1984, possessed many genuinely impressive elements — a sixty-eight-story sawtoothed silhouette, a salmon-colored Italian-marble atrium equipped with an eighty-foot waterfall — and became an instant tourist attraction.
They dominate the silhouette of Qingdao; they are particularly impressive from a ship entering the harbour.
A centre-piece of her Metropolitan exhibition was the impressive Aeolian Pyramid (2001-2006), cofprised of 44 vibrantly painted vase silhouettes, memorably described by the New Yorker as a "visual Hallelujah Chorus".
It has been a thrill for me to watch as he grows pushing his patented mix of high-tech fabrics, classic masculine silhouettes, and romanticism forward every season to even more impressive results.
Volterra was a stronghold of the Etruscans before the rise of Ancient Rome, and the town's Museo Etrusco Guarnacci has impressive exhibits on this lost civilisation, including an elongated bronze statue representing the silhouette of a naked man, entitled The Shadow of the Evening.
Just to watch the way the strength in one man's outstretched arms took the light, or the way another man, silhouetted, slowly curved his spine to present his face upward was impressive.
