The design theme skateboarders often strive for is distinct from "rat bikes," a breed that fetishizes matte finishes over glossy paint and rust over chrome.
As for evening, the best looks were black, off-the-shoulder and lightly transparent over glossy black tights.
The fairy-tale princess who has reigned over glossy photo spreads in European magazines made a pilgrimage to some decidedly unglossy places yesterday: ground zero and Ellis Island.
In an ideal world I will have placed my orders in August or early September, poring over glossy images in the catalogues and wracking my brains to remember where the gaps are two seasons ahead.
Do I wear flat-fronts or pleats?" A far cry from the frat-house monthly it most recently was, the new monthly magazine also clearly favors fallibility over glossy perfection.
An aesthetic of non finito, favoring spontaneity and coarseness over glossy surfaces and heavily worked detail, took root in the later stretches of the Renaissance, and completed works by Velázquez, Rembrandt and others testify to a new elevation of the creative process above the final product.
