For fall, the British designer Richard Nicoll dresses his ladies for drama (belted coats, leather shell tops, wool capelets over pencil skirts) or rom-coms (diaphanous silks, floral prints, gauzy angora).
The show featured McQueen's eye-catching and bizarre creations in materials ranging from wool to feathers and shell, starting from his days as a degree show sensation through to being a global design star.
The dresses' beads, cowrie shells and wool fabrics were acquired through intertribal and even intercontinental trade.
The mask from the Torres Strait Islands and now in the collection of the British Museum (item registration number Oc,89+.73, Figure 2) presented an interesting case study due to the number of materials used in its construction; wool, wood, turtle and cowrie shell, fur, feathers, pandanus and hibiscus [26].
Speaking of hats, among the show's more spectacular items is a magnificent wide-brimmed sun protector, made of twined spruce root and painted a glorious purplish blue; it is adorned with glass beads, shells and red wool cloth, and its crown is decorated with a linear design.
A short stroll from Darling Harbour, the hotel opened in August in the shell of a former wool shed and is an attractive mix of exposed brick walls, soaring ceilings and mismatched furniture.
To cite some examples, the secretomes from Pleurotus sapidus growing in submerged cultures either on peanut shells or on glass wool [ 17], Phanerochaete carnosa on spruce [ 18], Ganoderma lucidum on sugarcane bagasse [ 19], and Trametes trogii on Populus wood [ 20] have been reported.
Socks should be made of wool, gloves can be windproof, liners, or shells, hats can be wool, fleece, or windproof.
A large wall map shows the trade routes: wool cloth from England, vermillion pigment from China, dentalium shells from the Maldives, beads from Venice.
