Word: craftsmanship
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That this macabre imagination is coupled with dazzling craftsmanship gives the designer his heat. Beneath the shock of his antics is a natural talent coupled with technique acquired as a teenage trainee on Savile Row, the London street celebrated for handmade suits. After an apprenticeship of Dickensian harshness, McQueen harnessed his skills to the construction of cunning jackets, curved to just conceal the breasts, and trousers, called "bumsters," slung so low as to be rude...
Perhaps the album’s most striking feature is Kulash’s ability to make songwriting appear effortless. He breezes through the album’s 12 tracks, perfectly complementing its carefree charms with lyrical craftsmanship. One gets the sense that OK Go could sit down and record a dozen more albums without a moment’s hesitation or writer’s block. OK Go is a true delight to listen to, making a good case that the recent ’80s revival can induce good art as powerfully as it can general nostalgia...
Like Norman Rockwell (no relation), this Rockwell is in the business of narrative, craftsmanship and delivering prolific amounts of work that connect viscerally with the masses and are roundly ignored by the academy. While he's capable of making the sensuous and almost cozy little bays of Philadelphia's Pod restaurant, his piece de resistance, the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., is pure spectacle. "What drives us is invention," he says of his firm. "We're specifically looking for something...
...fashion's time-out. The pace was leisurely, leaving lots of opportunities for the ladies who lunch to get plenty to eat. The clothes were elegant, the kind of things one wears to the Paris Ritz, darling. The salons were small and intimate, the better to see the craftsmanship. But the gradual rotation of the old guard (out last season, Yves Saint Laurent; out this season, Oscar de la Renta at the house of Pierre Balmain) to the new (first John Galliano at Christian Dior, most recently Julien Macdonald at Givenchy) has transformed the week to one of pop stars...
...never wise to assume that the pursuit of craftsmanship always takes precedence over bare-bones economics in the purchase of a bike...