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Analysts attributed the company's problems to overly subdued colors in Hilfiger's women's line . The company did say it was 'fully committed to enhancing long-term shareholder value.
To produce his bizarre painting The Courtesan (1887), van Gogh enlarged the traced image, replaced the subdued blacks and grays of the kimono with bright complementary reds and greens, and added a fantasy Japanese background of storks and frogs borrowed from other Japanese prints.
Then his voice drops an octave or two, and he becomes more subdued.
(See Cannes' surprisingly subdued official site for more on the festivities.)
He surrendered at Yorktown during the American War of Independence (1781), subdued Tipu Sultan (1792); as viceroy of Ireland, he suppressed the rebellion of 1798.