"A traditional jacket is made from 64 pieces; ours just used 10," he told Conradi, "and they came only in grey and black.
Mr Munkhbayar, a grim-faced man looking out of place behind a desk in his UB office in knee-length boots and traditional jacket, believes that if Mongolians exploit the mines, "we will never develop".
For his latest collection, he worked in a few styles that were evocative of that look, plastic minis that were studded with pearls, but he also showed more traditional jackets and dresses with the strong shoulders of Neapolitan tailoring, some trimmed with contrasting black lace and shocking sheer insets at the breasts.
His ski suit was designed around a traditional bolero jacket, cummerbund and red bow-tie.
The coat, designed for show jumping, was a little obvious, Ms. Patrizi decided, opting instead for a pitch-colored version, a traditional hunt jacket priced at $400.
Rick Santorum was there, dressed in a way that raised him a notch in my estimation: traditional evening jacket and trousers, brocade vest, old-fashioned wing collar, black bow tie.
He chuckled when he remembered a photograph of Mr. Blair in the rain during his short vacation in the countryside, wearing a traditional Barbour jacket to guard against the elements.
Several reporters prefaced their queries with adulatory waffle about the president, and a correspondent from the Arctic in a traditional felt jacket asked about the prospects for reindeer herders.
This down overshirt, designed by Newson for G-Star, comes with the pleasing Michelin man-style folds of the traditional padded jacket but mixes them with the collar and cuffs of a shirt.
A wide band of cream art paper folded around the middle of each book shows a photograph of the cover of the original title and forms an elegant variation on the traditional dust jacket.
"This symbolizes in many ways our commitment to the Asia-Pacific region," said Mr. Tilton, who put on a traditional short jacket called a happi coat to join the United States ambassador to Japan, Howard H. Baker Jr., in swinging small wooden sledgehammers to crack open two ceremonial kegs of sake in honor of the terminal's opening.
