This lack of ingenuity manifests itself in a dozen ways, from acquisition culture to a general failure to grasp the zeitgeist, but the one I think matters the most at the moment is the tendency to advance by accretion.
And while it is exciting to track designers with the kind of scope Mr. Simons has shown in reinventing the Jil Sander brand, sometimes all that ingenuity becomes an end in itself, and the vision goes flat.
Yet an initiative -- led by France and Japan and coordinated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- has demonstrated a rare commitment to preserving a miracle of human ingenuity in a country too poor to do so itself.
White's book is itself an aesthetic conundrum, of dreamlike ingenuity, in which an amnesiac narrator learns through observation the codes of a specialised world.
1584 Tordesillas, Spain 1648 Alonso de Castillo Solorzano, (born 1584, Tordesillas, Spain died 1648) Spanish novelist and playwright whose ingenuity expressed itself best in his short stories.
Purcell's ingenuity in coping with such a severe restriction - and creating a work of haunting beauty - is in itself a supreme lesson.
Buffini shows ironic ingenuity in interweaving past and present.
There is also ingenuity in the internal arrangements.
"In ingenuity, in skill, in energy, we are inferior to none," it went.
"They did that by hard work and using their ingenuity" in picking stocks, he said.
