To modernize the look, the stylist opted for dual texture — a sleek top with movement in the back — and low positioning.
Also known for color, texture and sleek black packaging, NARS this season claimed the Alexander Wang show, usually a MAC staple, for the first time, as well as Creatures of the Wind, Thakoon, 3.1 Phillip Lim and Rodarte.
The tonality of the collection was black and white, but it was never dull: rather intriguing in its smooth changes in length, in texture from sleek to crunchy, and with a general sense of a strategic modernity that never left the Cristóbal spirit behind.
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They each capture a celebratory perspective on nature, effortlessly combined with the sleek, clean, hi-tech texture intrinsic in their medium.
The expressive mixing of rough textures with sleek smoothness that is visible in "Black Moonscape" can also be seen in another hanging work, "Figure" (2004), which is made of a wafer-thin slice of green granite in the outline of a human figure, one side polished, the other roughly hewn.
Inspired by theorist Paul Virilio's concept of "dromology" or the relationship between the speed of technological advancements and progress, Dromos synced minimal sound textures with sleek, abstract visuals that were projected onto S.A.T.'s dome.
While the cut of the clothes was simple and sleek, as expected, pattern and texture added a new dimension.
The new designer caught the silvered textures on a sleek tailored midcalf coat or silvered stripes under a stretchy mesh.
Soothing music, candles and subtle lighting; balanced textures of rough and sleek in white birch, river stones and polished cherry are employed with restraint and taste.
