"I've been in this business for nearly 30 years, and there have been other waves of statement-making milliners, but this one is somehow more explicit.
"We believe that a wave of hostile statements since the beginning of the year aims to stigmatise [citizens of Bulgaria and Romania] as second-class Europeans," the letter reads.
But that ricketiness ceases to matter when it is engulfed by a tsunami of jokes, a tidal wave of argumentative statements, a gorgeous gust of opinion.
Even when Nathan makes a total fool of himself with the Geek Pie haircut – and for once we feel rather sorry for him – there's a Japanese TV crew nearby to decide that he's inaugurated the new wave of hair statements and anoint Nathan as a style leader.
"What is more, we believe that a wave of hostile statements since the beginning of the year aims to stigmatise these citizens as second-class Europeans who pose a threat to the social systems, just because they want to exercise their basic rights to free movement and work".
In a wave of speeches and other statements (some you have seen and some you will see soon), voices are being raised against the too-big-to-fail approach and related causes of financial fragility.
But to Don C. Skemer, Princeton's curator of manuscripts, the opening of the documents pertaining to Charles Lindbergh's "Letter to Americans," which was published in Collier's magazine on March 29 , 1941 and Anne Lindbergh's "Wave of the Future: A Statement of Faith" also opened up a small window into the habits -- and maybe the psyches -- of one of America's most famous and most tragic couples.
And then on Monday, after she saw the tidal wave of reaction to that statement, she blamed the media for "blatant mischaracterization" of her words.
The news comes the day after a wave of tech leaders made public statements in support of protections for transgender students.
Forty years ago, in the wake of the 1968 Paris riots, London was engulfed by a wave of politically charged and poetic statements, scrawled on the corrugated iron fencing and dilapidated buildings of Notting Hill by members of the disillusioned post-war generation.
Diving into the sea of people, I inched my way down the street admiring the flags being waved and statements of hope being cried as I stood shoulder to shoulder with men and women that may have been denied a basic right for decades.
