1.   For spring, designers are taking the best and brightest of the bunch, mixing them into cheerful stripes, abstract motifs and graphic prints.

2.   Instead they present a kind of cultural continuum that mixes objects, abstract motifs, bits of Portuguese folk art and stenciled words and numbers.

3.   The exotic foliage, figures, and abstract motifs have their echo in embroidery.

4.   There may come a time, he said, when the public will demand an abstract motif.