Word: sizeless
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...showings in frozen New York, if only by way of contrast to the hermetic cover-up that made the city look like one big Central Parka. But the summer collections stood, and preened, on their own merits. In a way, they are antifashion. Unstructured, untailored, seasonless and often sizeless, the ready-to-wear and mostly inexpensive California clothes are simple, sexy, fresh, feminine and flexible. They are made largely of natural materials like cottons, light wools and silks, and favor loose ties and drawstrings rather than zippers, buttons and belts. They vibrate in all the colors of the great outdoors...
...into seven lesser areas. In a helpful gallery note at one side. Abstractionist Ad Reinhardt explains his painting. It is: "A square (neutral, shapeless) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless), non-contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a mat, flat, freehand painted surface (glossless, texture-less, nonlinear, no hard edge, no soft edge) which does...
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