While models like the B210 and F10 sold well enough, they were tinny, anemic and oddly styled.
The designer Rachel Comey struck the winning formula, offering a three-course dinner while models weaved among the circular tables.
Mr. Millon says that Russian curators have been besieged in the last decade with requests for material on Constructivist design while models of Baroque buildings have gathered dust.
Elsewhere, Jil Sander, designed by Raf Simons, screened a 70s porn film while models paraded raw-seamed, sheer clothes and dresses that looked like fishermen's nets.
While models like the BMW M3 and the Volkswagen Golf R are skipping 2014 because of redesigns, the vehicles presented here are truly dead.
In other cases things are simply not counted at all: while models put the cost of low-carbon policies in the negative column, there is no counting the benefits of avoided damage in the positive one.
The simple lesson that the narrator is left with after all the brilliant theorizing of the economists is, "While models can help us manage risk, they can never tell us when to buy or sell".
On a gray afternoon in Milan, while models, electricians and seamstresses scrambled with last-minute preparations for that evening's Prada show, several dozen elderly women attended Mass across town at Santa Maria Annunziata in Chiesa Rossa.
Open Space events and hackathons provide ways of bringing people together around a shared purpose, while models like Appreciative Inquiry encourage a focus on generating new possibilities rather than what has gone wrong.
Designers anchor the celebrity party scene, while models, who can earn $1,000 a night on the catwalk, showcase sexy clothes and provide daring eye-candy in a country where public displays of flesh are frowned upon.
However, as Dryzek (2008, 471) has contended, while "models help in thinking, they also constrain thinking".
