Wool shifts came with a soft spray of pleating on the bodice, and there were suits in sleek fabrics with caped jackets, as well as several fox-trimmed capes with proportions that belonged to another era.
My mask of sleek black fabric and plastic knobs makes me look like an Asian Darth Vader.
But for Mr. Krakoff, whose collection was done predominantly in sleek white fabrics and deep red tissue-thin leather, it means he isn't allowing himself the chance to develop his own ideas for his new label.
A purple zip-up jacket ($574) was made, in part, of cupro, a sleek yet tough fabric made from cotton waste products.
Seeing the models in their sleek, felted, techno-fabric tunics, with just a touch of jet embroidery at the shoulder, was to imagine that the posse of stylish young women in the front row were themselves walking the runway in the daytime flats and simple streamlined clothes.
Although he was still in diapers when the company was a by-word for sleek tailoring and fine fabrics, that is Cerruti's heritage.
The trends so far are for less formal wear, but for what there is to be sharp (especially at the shoulders), sleek and in inventive fabrics.
And even at Apple, the Steve Jobs-shandded hand of sleek minimalism has gladly accommodated the fabric of existing architectural fabric when it makes sense to do so as made so manifest with such restrained dignity at New York's Grand Central Terminal store.
A sleek austerity but with intense fabric research has always been the focus of Francisco Costa's work at Calvin Klein.
Their interiors are lovely, setting sleek modern furniture against the fabric of their historic homes – heavy, elaborate doors and ceilings of mangrove and palm fronds.
