Still in his early 20s, with many other celebrated inventions such as Yorkies and Lion bars yet to come, Sollitt was tasked in 1962 with creating a delicate new peppermint fondant and – the really hard and still secret part – sealing it in the slenderest coating of dark chocolate.
By linking the long, slender suits and coats with flat metallic slippers, the intention was unequivocal and provocative.
Preening in a slender, calf-length Armani coat, he added, "Wear clothes likes this, and you know you'll be taken seriously".
Ms. Branquinho totally gets current fashion, yet she struggles to get there — meaning that for every slender dress or tailored coat, enriched with a strip of mohair or an animal print on the arms, there are clunky pieces that could have been edited out.
The man's pale, mustachioed face, his elegant coat and slender frame, looked uncannily familiar; when Sirois-Trahan glanced at the label on the canister of the film reel—"Greffulhe wedding"—he recognized the surname of the French countess who famously served as a muse to Marcel Proust.
There were coats with epaulets, slender flannel jackets and a blue shearling coat as tidily shaped as a hand-rolled cigarette.
Wrapped around the 16-year-old's slender frame were seven coats.
"1950s and '60s couture mixed up — changing proportions, making the whole thing more feminine and having fun with military," said the designer backstage, after flowers blooming on duchess satin — but for simple coats and slender dresses — closed the show.
Later he strode away, incredibly slender in a dark straight coat and black homburg, a flower in the coat and a handkerchief jutting from its pocket, a general air of being Graham Robertson [subject of a Sargent portrait].
Slender enough to fit in your coat pocket, Walton's book is an entirely new kind of road novel -- the literature.
