"I'm no forecaster, but I feel we're in a long-term era of multiple trends, so even if the leading fashion designers would go back to a more minimalist overall trend, other segments of the industry will still use strong prints," said Gilles Lasbordes, exhibitions director at Première Vision.
The socio-political backdrop of the latest cry of "there's a crisis in the humanities" is clear, at least in the United States: we are in a long-term era of declining public funding for higher education and mounting student debt.
It's a grim fact about the way we think of ourselves that the term "golden era" is so often used in the past tense.
Most state legislators in the term limits era have little experience in high-level politics.
The economist Carmen Reinhart terms this era one of the "repression" of finance -- a term that sounds ominous but in fact is what allowed the postwar recovery to go forward and not to be destroyed by debt.
In policy terms, the era of the two moons is an era of stagnation.
The terms "Victorian era" and "Victorian times" are commonly used about the years from 1837 to 1901.
Of course, just because the United States has other priorities doesn't have to mean that, in global terms, the era of this movement is over.
He traveled over 300,000 miles (480,000 km) to some 27 countries in his last two years of office, a period historians have termed the era of "the new Eisenhower".
Speaking recently at the first night of the Southbank Centre's year-long festival of 20th and 21st century music, The Rest Is Noise, the artistic director Jude Kelly termed this era "the age of violence".
