Wearing an impeccably fitted slategray suit with a pale yellow tie, Blackwell looked over the heads of the assembled media through his rimless glasses and began without preamble.
Recent signature pieces include a bikini in slategray, an asymmetrical one-piece with a wavy metallic stripe down one side and a cage-like long-sleeve one-piece made from a mesh of 1 centimeter-wide strips of spandex.