Word: metalwork
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Rather than paralyzing their ambitions, many of the designers drew inspiration from their troubled surroundings. Opening Fashion Week was Sonya Battla's collection, Conflict in Karachi. It was a multilayered tribute to the city's women, using a mixture of bold, in-your-face designs embellished with metalwork. Necks were wreathed in spiked collars, and there was a chastity belt defiantly unzipped...
...novel opens in 1895 in a London museum, where young Philip Warren, an aspiring potter, is sketching the metalwork and camping out secretly amid the statuary. On the lam from a bleak working-class future in England's industrial north, Philip has the good fortune to be discovered by two sympathetic boys, one of whom is the son of children's-book author Olive Wellwood. Soon our ceramist is apprenticed to Wellwood family friend Benedict Fludd, a master potter...
...actually that different except that you don't have the size issue. Once you have the concept, then very soon you have to get down to the details like what's the material like, what's the finishing like, what's all the metalwork like. When you do clothes, often it's made up of so many small decisions that in the end, they are like one very big decision...
...speed demons, that might mean top suspension and a light chassis. For touring long distances, the custom biker will ask for an intercom system and heated seats and handlebars. Just cruising? He can do that on a chopper or a bagger with a hand-painted body and intricately detailed metalwork. The American artist Michael Godard ordered an $85,000 gangster-themed chopper with images from his collections painted onto the rear fender and bike body and sculpted revolvers adorning the spokes. "Bourget's builds rolling eye candy," says Arthur Coldwells, editor and publisher of Robb Report MotorCycling. "These are gorgeously...
...organ was built in 1967 by a Harvard physicist. The pipes, of varying sizes, resemble faces with elongated foreheads and tiny rectangular mouths. Gold metalwork laces the perimeters, and a small mirror propped at an angle allows the organist to see the conductor behind...