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Kury's characters become the central focus of the film, while the background tends to reflect the mood or mindset of the principles. When Lena and Madeline spend a day exploring Lyon for a site to start their dress shop, Lyon looks like a muted painting with pastel buildings and pale skies, invoking the almost dreamlike quality of the day. When Lena's child gets left behind during the excursion, the audience is thrust back into the really of material responsibility as Lena and Madeline pace around the seemingly stark interior of Lena's home. Kury never diverts the audience...
...meantime, Grey is looking ahead. She will offer Valentine's Day pet treats in heart-shaped boxes adorned with red ribbons. For the spring, she plans to dye her products with pastel colors to produce Easter baskets of biscuit-eggs...
...With its pastel-colored stucco buildings, palm-lined harbor and sandy beaches, this city nestled in gentle foothills on the Atlantic Coast used to be known as the Rio de Janeiro of Africa. Now, in most respects, Luanda is a ghost of its former self. In the once thriving downtown, at least two-thirds of the stores have closed. Merchants, unable to purchase supplies, have boarded their doors. The few shops that remain open display almost their entire stock in the front window. Prices are inflated: in one showcase, a pair of secondhand children's trousers was marked...
...display in designer showrooms are the brightest and boldest in several seasons. America's fashion pacesetters are counting on the economic recovery to make women more confident and carefree when they shop for clothes. A year ago, in the midst of the recession, muted pastel tones dominated the top designers' collections, but now the lines shine with brassy shades of red, blue and green. In the way they are cut and the way they flow, the new tops, skirts and dresses are daring, distinctive and sometimes a bit naughty. Observes Kalman Ruttenstein, a vice president at Bloomingdale...
...aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. Delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray...