No mention was made of Taurus, Sable or Contour to this well-heeled crowd.
The bristles can be made out of sable (mink), synthetic, synthetic mix, hog, or squirrel.
The demand for Russian furs was augmented by the fashion for muffs — ideally, for those who could afford it, of sable — and stoles made of whole, head-to-tail pelts of foxes and other animals, with gold and jeweled clasps.
The posts were made of fluorescent bulbs, and a sable bedspread was strewn with paperbacks and magazines and more iPods.
The brushes are made of Siberian mink (known as sables) and of squirrel (known as camel's hair).
The mystique of Michele Lamy, a chanteuse with two gold front teeth, is evident all over, but especially in a shelf full of little vicious-looking rat monsters made from sable scraps.
With this in mind, Tomas Maier, the talented designer formerly of Hermès, who was brought in to revive Bottega Veneta, the luxury leather-goods house, displayed a group of phenomenally opulent coats and throws made from braided sable.
"Who am I going to center myself on if not on my inner self?" The play makes much of the two sets of sable eyelashes that Nevelson wore, both to draw attention to her eyes and to mask them; she aspired to be visible without being seen.
But then you could see the coquette emerging in a funnel top of sable and tulle strips that made the model look as if she were wearing a cyclone.
In Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard," which was made in 1950, the sable past of the silent stars was already an object of amazement.
