It is an altogether smaller work -- a portrait, really, made up of glimpses cut and pasted together in an artful pattern, a collage that offers us a moving, if slender, look at one man's life.
Who are these slender looks going to appeal to?
Mr. de la Renta's styles taper at the hem to give a slender look.
"For a long time Beat has campaigned against the constant portrayal of a very slender look as the only aspirational ideal for young people," he said.
To give you a really trim, slender look, hitting just at the wrist can also be perfect.
We ended up next to a slender, unhappy looking tree – a Zanthoxylum paniculatum, also from Mauritius – which is the plant that Magdalena cannot grow.
He was also impressed by the Aarne pilsner glass by Iittala at Bloomingdale's, which he thought was "tall, slender, good looking and slightly aloof, like a modernist skyscraper".
"I told him he should grab a visa and one for his wife and another for Juan Miguel and come here right away," said Caridad, a slender, elegant looking woman in her late 60's.
Standing on an island so slender that, looking to my left I could see the rough grey waves of the Pacific, and looking to my right I could see the calm blue of the lagoon.
However, male ants have a more slender form, looking more like a wasp than an ant.
