Cintra Wilson Goes Shopping:Five-Dollar-Word Edition

Each Critical Shopper column in the Thursday Styles reveals a bit more of its author's inner character. This week's visit to Solange Azagury-Partridge's new Madison Avenue jewel salon exposes a surprising new facet of Cintra Wilson's personality (See what we did there? Facet —get it). Apparently the acerbic shopper is a closet geometer.
If The Shophound were more competitive, we would have found far more syllables to express that thought, but how could we compete with La Cintra's prodigious word application this week? For example:

The designer did sneak a couple of Archimedean solids into her Platonic line. (Naughty girl. I bet she thought her shoppers wouldn’t notice an extra polygon here and there.) But I was delighted, because I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that there just aren’t enough truncated cuboctahedrons and rhombicuboctahedrons to be found in jewelry today.

We hear you sister!
Clearly our shopper brought her own jeweler's loupe (not exactly the greatest form when visiting an haute joaillerie), or else she has uncommonly sharp vision. How else to identify Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces through the glass of a display case. As for cuboctahedrons, well, quasiregular solids like that are a little easier to spot for sure, but still.
Of course, none of this technical jargon masks the main point of the story which is that La Cintra is no more immune to the charms of the shiny and sparkly than anyone else.
Critical Shopper | Solange Azagury-Partridge Riches at Rainbow’s End By Cintra Wilson (NYTimes)
Solange Azagury-Partridge 809 Madison Avenue at 68th Street, Upper East Side