The gown featured French seamed crinoline borders, which cascaded into a dramatic cathedraltrain finished in the lace, with accents of a peacock-feathered design.
The idea of millions of people crisscrossing the country in every direction and manner of transportation, negotiating major airports and cathedral-like train stations, waiting for planes, trains and buses to arrive and depart, triggers in me such anxiety I want to hide.
From the high-speed-train tracks, escalators lifted me past a bold new gridded superstructure by architect Jacques Voncke into the glorious cathedral of the original turn-of-the-20th-century station.