Here the silhouette of an arching-shoulder coat with deep lapels was matched by modern versions of the classic duffel, created in lush materials.
While a classic jacket can look staid, light coats in lush materials perform a similar service, making the wearer look serious but not dull.
Fashion industry sources say that while Mr. Klein has diminished his role in the actual design of his collections -- much like other older designers like Ralph Lauren -- he is still active, especially in styling his fashion shows and ensuring that the "Calvin Klein" look -- a minimalist mix of jerseys and body-defining lush materials -- still gets fashion buzz.
Others find that Balinese life with its gracious use of lush natural materials -- bamboo, coconut wood, even banana leaves and flower petals -- inspires their architectural work, landscape gardening or interior design.
They were beautifully done — the scales, especially, were a technical feat, and the materials lush — but such visual tourism feels reductive, and the show was at its best when the connections were the least obvious: in a juicy thick-ribbed cashmere tunic, an astrakhan jacket with a extravagant funnel neck, and second-skin leather pants in all shades.
He was gathering material for "Lush Life," his 2008 novel, which explored the collision, through a murder, of the area's various constituencies — Chinese, Dominicans, Jews, hipsters.
The ersatz walls were then wrapped with a flexible "skin," of a gesso-like material, bearing a lush ink-jet printout of the frescoes.
Cassandra Wilson, "Glamoured" (Blue Note) — The material on this lush new album includes Sting's "Fragile," Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay," and the seventies soul classic "If Loving You Is Wrong," as well as infectious originals, but Wilson never forgoes the improvisatory spirit and rhythmic lustre of her jazz roots.
This sound and music seem well attuned to the material, be it kinetic, lush or blunt, but at times constrain the pace of the narrative.
It has additional material — a sparse-to-lush, reverently masochistic version of the Crystals' "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)" — and their alternate takes.
Pair a lush tablescape and flowy fabrics with materials such as rustic wood, metals, and brick, to get the perfect contrast and texture.
