For instance, it was during this period that Fila released the Helmsman sneaker, a knock-off of Prada's America's Cup silhouette, a style that had been endorsed by the forgotten rap wunderkind Hurricane Chris.
Victoria Beckham is proving to be a dab hand at navigating the space in between, taking silhouettes and styles that are just beginning to come into fashion industry focus and distilling them into slick, glossy collections that make new ideas appealing and palatable.
My favorite eras for fashion were the 40s and 50s, so a lot of the silhouettes and styles are inspired by the dresses women used to wear back then, but I wanted to make them feel fresh and modern.
It's really about silhouettes and styles.
While most stars tend to get stuck wearing one silhouette or style of dress, Kurylenko had a lot of fun experimenting with color and texture with terrific results.
MT: Any item is accompanied by an initial sketch, which shows the silhouette and style, then a second drawing is made, often called the "map of the item," which helps the constructor to identify all the correct ratios, such as the width and height of various details.
Reports include information about fabrics, color, silhouettes and styling.
"Graphics of water, fire, earth and Japanese cartoons!" said Angela Missoni backstage, adding to her lexicon surface interest, elongated silhouettes, safari style and a 15-year-old Missoni logo.
"So the collection is a marriage of the two of them we're calling a 'modern western.' " That meant western riffs on the label's signature silhouettes — varsity-style jackets with studding detail, kimono jackets with a scurrying scorpion print and chiffon dresses in a cowpoke-appropriate plaid — in a desert-landscape-color palette heavy on cactus green, dusky pink and terra cotta orange.
With help from friends and other musicians, Shauna has kept pushing Silhouette forward, changing styles and instruments at will but always creating emotionally-charged pop that is massive in scale.
Jasper Conran's Wuthering Heights moors-ish fantasy also used wide sleeves to add impact to his tailoring · In New York last week Matthew Williamson had kimono-style sleeves cut a few inches short to balance out the silhouette of 70s-style high-waisted evening dresses · There are hidden pitfalls to this look.
