Details like covered buttons and rounded collars may derive from the past, but the way the designers mix the eras together makes the clothes distinctly modern.

His fingers were slow and sure as they moved down the small covered buttons.

Alas, the answer does not lie in Edwardian wasp-waist suits and restrictive gowns with an ants' army of covered buttons down the back.

Not just the aeronautical dashboard with a covered starter button that also serves as a Eurofighter's bomb-release button.

Her high-necked cashmere-and-wool jacket ($1,350) and blazer with matching covered buttons ($1,450) both come in sharp pink or stinging yellow.

A procession of small covered buttons may march up the back, fine organza flowers may curve over the shoulder.

The coat has two covered buttons at the back waist.

She stood in front of a dusty mirror as Addie fastened the endless row of covered buttons up the back.

Each belt had a large bulge in the middle and a covered button on the buckle.

A sheer scarf is knotted into a collar around her shoulders, and her white sleeve linings are fastened back with a covered button, 1652.