In just a few seasons, she has made the Céline label recognizable by her almost stiff shapes and the gold chain straps on bags.
The stiff shapes may seem off-putting, but the shoulder line of the suits is undeniably new, and the fact that the fabric is cotton is appealing.
With her fiesta bowl of colors and banana prints rendered in stiff shapes, it did seem that Ms. Prada was making monkeys of editors on Thursday, the first important show of the European lineup.
While this was all very simple and lovely, Watanabe fans will find the stiff shapes and bulky shift dresses distinctly familiar - a surprise from a designer usually so original.
With this system one can reproduce, at least in principle, any desired profile in the "stiff" configuration, and construct free form foldable surfaces of any shape.
After a while, however, the masks' stiff, protruding shape were dehumanising.
Three men and a small, delicately agile woman have the most demanding choreography, the men broken-bodied in roustabout solos and the woman's limbs flicking and jutting in her solos, with her body manipulated by men almost as a stiff geometric shape in duets and group segments.
This was achieved by polymerizing low molecular weight (MW) PEGDA hydrogel precursor into a stiff sinusoidal shape and then polymerizing this construct into a high MW precursor.
At Blass and at Ricci, his pretty prints and lace were hyper-feminine, certainly an image that is at odds with the legacy of stiff architectural shapes and hard patent leather edges of Mr. Ferré.
It's really a world apart: long dresses scattered with silk leaves and autumn fruits, stiff bell-shape skirts with plain scoop-neck tops, new takes on Fair Isle sweaters, and dramatic evening dresses in sturdy tweeds.
