Hopefully, someone will come up with the way which will not make looks and function mutually exclusive. In fact, it is hard to believe that they have to be that way.
Just briefly visiting and seeing the first teo_audio picture (blue cable), I would say that they are not indecent-looking. There are, at least to me, prettier ones out there but these are far from unsightly. Anticables and similar would be more in that domain. Of course, some may be smitten by those.