The collarless, knee-length satin coats and pleated chiffon dresses at Prada did the same.
His is a planet where an aubergine satin coat is a useful purchase.
People say, if she is a medium, why does she wear satin coats on stage, and sparkly glasses?
In her black satin coat and black velvet military cap, she was, he later wrote, "very 'mondaine' and carried a handbag with a powder-puff..
New Haven - No teacher ever told me that William Shakespeare had a gold hoop earring and a mullet, or that he liked to wear crimson satin coats with slits.
After all, Mr. Elbaz noted, the legacy of the "metrosexual" from the last decade is that "men feel freer to wear a red satin coat or a T-shirt printed with flowers.
Twiggy, sitting front row in a pink satin coat, flaunting the jewelry that had celebrated her 60th birthday, summed up Burberry's trajectory via the English shires to high fashion.
Just after the show, Catherine Wells-Debs, a San Francisco social figure, snapped up the most outrageously theatrical piece in the designer's collection, a pink satin coat with a big sable collar.
White satin coats and skirts printed with tiny red flowers, knee-length paisley jacquard dresses with pert collars, and a beautiful oversize white jacket with black buttons hinted that a woman's relationship to her fashion is not purely based on what her heart tells her.
To Mr. Galliano, Dietrich was the original rock chick, the forerunner of Joplin and Faithfull, and he found novel ways to both embrace and subvert her glamour -- with tattoo-print bodysuits under evening gowns, a silver python jacket foaming with white fur on the sleeves, and a gold satin coat dragging down the runway.
A world away from the battlefront, in Paris Miller photographed Marlene Dietrich in a satin coat by Schiaparelli and Fred Astaire signing autographs for the "bare-bottomed girls of the cast in feathers".
