Her offerings include a plum-colored halter dress covered in satin flowers, a more tailored dress in black wool with more sharply cut flowers, and a white sheer man-tailored shirt paired with black evening shorts and a full-cut long black coat.

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In the coastal city of Rikuzentakata in the northeast, families of the deceased, many wearing black, laid flowers on flattened plots of land where their loved ones are believed to have died a year ago.

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Abramson, who is fifty-seven, wore a white dress and a black cardigan with white flowers and red trim.

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Instead, yellow flowers daubed with black lacquer to resemble black-eyed Susans are substituted.

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Black Friday never buys me flowers.

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Black African street vendors hawk bags and flowers.

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In Phnom Penh, students wearing white shirts with black ribbons pinned on them sang songs before offering flowers at the royal palace.

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"The way I see flowers in relation to Dior is the way you see black in relation to Yohji Yamamoto, " says Simons on the phone from his car one evening, traveling from his home in Antwerp back to Paris after a long Easter weekend.

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Since then people from across Cambodia, dressed in mourning colours of white and black, have been lining up to file past his coffin, some holding lotus flowers.

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Green, black, white, oolong, hundred-year-old Pooair(ph) tea, teas that bloom like flowers in hot water, tea that is picked by monkeys on dangerous mountain cliffs.

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