"Depending how I feel, I do it some days by wearing one, two or three colours predominantly jacket, top and pants or skirt, for example, or a solid-coloured dress with small but intense accent pieces such as a favourite brilliant beaded necklace created by an artist in Montreal bringing in the rest of the spectrum."
"As even in a border, stayed between two lines of solid-coloured galloon, flowers and fruit do not stand forever upright without help, the weaver gave probability to his abundant mass by tying it here and there with a knot of ribbon and letting the ribbon flaunt itself as ribbons have ever done to the delight of the eye that loves a truant."
"But for next season, Jacobs jettisoned the geek chic for a cleaner look, such as solid-coloured, beautiful shift dresses that gathered just at the waist and, most temptingly of all, one-piece bathing suits with a modest frill at the back and - preventing the look from falling into 50s pastiche - a contrast halter-neck."