The sleek digital billboard cast its neon glow over the teeming city streets, emblazoning the latest ad campaign in towering luminescence:

"MYTHIK - Where Primal Meets Avant"

Lisa allowed a satisfied smile as she admired the striking images - a sculptural titanium bra piece adorned with tribal feathers; a blackened steel corset engraved with cryptic runes; a gravity-defying evening gown that seemed to sprout from the model's skin like living crystal.

The collaboration between her cutting-edge design house Avante and Draco's eponymous clothier Knight had proven to be a runaway success. Their "Mythik" debut collection fusing haute couture with ancient primitivism had set the fashion world ablaze.

"Pretty sexy stuff,...