Sentence examples for sumptuous clothing from inspiring English sources

Which leads me to the Berluti presentation at the Natural History Museum, a decidedly immodest event that featured a parade of taxidermy and still lifes of sumptuous clothing.

The detailed attention to sumptuous clothing and jewels, the precious objects near to hand, the architecture that serves as background, even the dogs advertise the subject's importance.

If shopping is on your agenda, they can give you a behind the scenes experience at the Fendi Palace, take you to some of the fashion houses who have dressed style icons such as Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, and my idea of heaven is going to the headquarters of Brunello Cucinelli who makes some of the most sumptuous clothing in all of Italy.

In a dramatic gesture before the judgement seat of the Bishop of Assisi, he stripped off his sumptuous clothing and deposited it at his father's feet.

They often show full-blown environments: sumptuous clothing, piles of fertile fruits and some of the most attractive humans depicted in art.

The V&A's The Fabric Of India (SW7, to 10 Jan) features sumptuous cloth and exquisite finished clothing; while Losing The Compass at White Cube, Mason's Yard (SW1, to 9 Jan), shows politically minded work from artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Mona Hatoum alongside blankets and quilts created by unnamed Amish and Gee's Bend makers.

One writer marvelled at Osage girls who attended the best boarding schools and wore sumptuous French clothing, as if "une très jolie demoiselle_ _of the Paris boulevards had inadvertently strayed into this little reservation town".

As a result, theatrical costumes typically became more colourful and more sumptuous than the clothing styles on which they were based.

His superb gold death mask is the most familiar treasure from Tutankhamun's tomb, but few realise the Egyptian pharaoh (1336-1327 BC) was also buried with a whole range of clothing - from sumptuous robes and stunning regalia to his baby clothes, a large supply of clean, neatly folded underwear and even several pairs of socks.

The much-ballyhooed black-and-white movie "Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest" by the Chinese filmmaker Yang Fudong would work as an unusually long but sumptuous ad for the Banana Republic clothing chain.

He showed a collection of very ladies-who-lunch clothing at Doubles, the sumptuous red private club in the basement of uptown's Sherry-Netherland Hotel, which was founded in the Bonfire of the Vanities era by a group including Patricia Buckley and Nan Kempner.