startling, grim, sobering, bleak, chilling, vivid, dramatic, clearest, dire, strikingly, dispiriting, glaring, ominous, contrasting, disquieting, jarring, inescapable, stunning, unmistakable, shocking, poignant, unsettling, gloomy, foreboding, breathtaking, subtle, dismaying, obvious, paradoxical, frightening, juxtaposed, nuanced, horrifying, dreary, evident, wrenching, troubling, damning, depressing, staggering, harsh, profound, haunting, disturbing, illustrative, backdrop, monumental, pale, desolation, ghastly, searing, undeniable, disconcerting, heartbreaking, perplexing, harrowing, blunt, discomfiting, palpable, grisaille, dismal, mirrored, accentuated, irrefutable, somber, sombre, evocative, dichotomous, appalling, echoes, perilous, abject, bluntest, discomforting, pitiless, drab, terrifying, heartrending, riveting, forlorn, illustrate, unmistakeable, unnerving, pellucid, compelling, illuminating, dichotomy, rosy, brutal, dostoyevskian, jagged, unambiguous, cheerless, muted, immensity, unadorned, implacability, monochromatic, dreadful, microcosm, astonishing, irreconcilability, jackson, cooper, graham, arnold, harrison, lawrence, stanley, bruce, clarke, clifford, howe, montgomery, nelson, reynolds, scott, adams, burke, campbell, fletcher, starkest, majestic, blurred, blurry, hazy, unreal, homely, prosaic, sharper, bald, beguiling, captivating, clearer

balenciaga, cristobal balenciaga, raw beauty, starkers, starkly, unornamented

arrant, austere, bare, barren, complete, consummate, crude, desolate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, immoderate, inhospitable, perfect, plain, pure, severe, sodding, staring, thoroughgoing, unconditional, unmitigated, utter