It comes across, too, in his new BBC series The Rob Brydon Show, a mixture of chat, music, audience interaction and jokes, and while there are no novelty jackets, there is something of the old-fashioned variety host about the 45-year-old Brydon: the gentle humour, the courteous way he treats the audience.
These reasons include metallic brocade jackets, novelty jumpers, purple sweatsuit ensembles, sweatshirts with dog portraits outlined in Swarovski crystals, trousers with origami pleats and lug-soled walking shoes of a sort one associates with the lady ornithologist in Hitchcock's "The Birds".
Then there is the novelty of a sable jacket with rhinestone portholes, top right, or a knitted style, far right, with circle appliqué decorations.
At the birds-and-bees-themed unveiling of his women's wear for spring and summer 2015, held in September in London's Kensington Gardens, the sartorial novelty was an indigo wasp-waist denim jacket.
While her designs were generally conservative, Trigère pioneered the use of cotton and wool fabrics for evening dresses and devised such novelties as the reversible coat, the mobile collar, the spiral jacket, and the sleeveless coat.
But after the procession of his velour jackets, French terry tops, chenille patch jeans and novelty T-shirts, he opted just to high-five his friends lining the runway.
At Saint Laurent, there are two styles of denim jeans, including skinny ones, that range in price from $295 to $495, novelty print dress shirts and a few clever takes on the tuxedo jacket (for men and women).
Neither the weight, nor even the size, are the biggest novelty in this handset, however: that award goes to its modular "jackets".
Yet what Ms. Malandrino does so convincingly is sell you on the novelty of a pair of tight pants crunched down the sides with ruching, or a jacket emblazoned on the back with a longhorn steer.
It also manufactures tailored slacks, jackets, hats, shirts, skirts, and belts, and it licenses the manufacture of novelty items.
