The metallic leather cap toe and stiletto heel offered a clean contrast to the transparent PVC sides — an effect that mirrored the gown’s interplay of opaque velvet and sheer lace.
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Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
2 June 2025
These structural characteristics reflect and refract light in a way that creates a subtle but dazzling iridescence – less like the bold sparkle of a peacock and more like fine lace held up to sunlight.
Each about the size of a large table, not counting their broad solar arrays, the satellites operate in a grid to form a lattice across nearly all of the planet, excluding the poles.
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Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
Even with leaders' interest in lattices or rock-climbing metaphors, the research field remains stuck in vertical models.
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