And then there were a few style icons whose unfortunate fashion faux-pas (bat-wing sleeves? really?) landed them on our worst-dressed list this week.
tulle skirts, tube dresses, bolero jackets, Doc Martens with long, floral dresses, corsets, acid - washed / bleached jeans, bat-wing sleeves, mohair jumpers, lace.
And then there were the bat-wing-sleeve dresses, top left, and the pink dhoti trousers, bottom right, of a daring, free-spirited man.
You are supposed to walk in and sense that every felted bed throw, cheekily upholstered armchair and wing-sleeve diaphanous blouse has been selected with your own very special whimsical take on the unconventional in mind.
The dress is made of handwoven indigo linen with long, pointed wing-sleeves.
Later, Carmen Ruby Floyd, whose cushiony lips were painted dark red, and whose powerful figure was armored in a beaded bodice and sheer, wing-like sleeves, sang "Creole Love Call": whoops and trills and sighs, no words.
Four seamstresses toiled an entire month to create the wing-like sleeves of a siren-inspired gown in last spring's collection, in which each "feather" was composed of a Malibu plume and two organza petals.
There is now a bright green wing pattern on the sleeve, though it is not as striking or literal as the feathered wing designs that Nike came up with for the University of Oregon's jerseys.
He put on a cassock, buttoning it from his neck down to his ankles, and opened a tall narrow door to pull out a cotta, a white, gathered garment with sleeves like wings.
Patterned after a Manchu court robe and sewn in layers of multicolored silk and satin, it is embroidered with the form of a flying bat, a symbol of happiness, whose tendril-thin wings unfurl across the sleeves.
That meant simply draped sleeveless tops in tobacco-brown Ultrasuede, wide trousers with a side pleat extending from the pockets and lined with a tuxedo stripe, and an aqua wool coat with fringe at the edges and on the back of the sleeves, like wings.
