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...evening gowns at Jil Sander to peep-toe suede boots at Christian Louboutin and sexy cocktail dresses at Alberta Ferretti with a swish of fringe. Forget about the Western connotations for a minute, because even when it comes to lamps and costume jewelry, this season's fringe is strictly boudoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loose Ends | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...opening shots of "Vive Le Screwcap," Bonny Doon Vineyard's online video extolling the virtues of screwcapped wine, a faceless sommelier prepares for an evening at work, fastening his flashy cufflinks in a dimly lit boudoir. He reaches into a drawer full of corkscrews, scoops them up, and casts them into the trash. "Le cork est mort! (The cork is dead!)," the sommelier proclaims in a campy French accent. "Vive le screwcap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Cap on Wine Corks | 8/22/2007 | See Source »

...first two floors, and muted oak floorboards run throughout. There's also a dramatic, entrance-making spiral staircase. Each floor features Robin's quirky flea-market finds, including a Turkish glass chandelier, armchairs covered in Moroccan brocade, and 1950s pottery. Appropriately, Ciocco calls the new salon the "boudoir of Paris." She says she agreed to the venture out of her infinite respect for Robin's research?adding that his products offer "a complex alchemy" for being effective and being nutritious to the scalp and hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris When It Primps | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

Ring it did, right off the wall, and the Annex was in business. Today 3 million Annex catalogs mailed out monthly offer short-order evening and weekend study programs on everything from boudoir photography to computer programming to women's body building. There are more than 300,000 adult students in twelve cities coast to coast. A typical course like Belly Dancing meets once a week for only four weeks?just right, says Zanker, for "people who don't have the time or the energy to take long-term courses and who don't care about credits." The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bargains in Short-Order Courses | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...people who brought you the weird music alien iZ have come out with another equally alien device, called Zoundz. It looks like the sort of leisure device Captain Kirk might encounter in a martian boudoir, a shiny white puddle with colorful, crazy-shaped blocks and blinking lights. You move the blocks to create and manipulate the music, and the lights lock in step. Six of the blocks have sound sequences built in?string, keyboard, percussion, etc. The seventh block is for recording your own five seconds of audio. By moving the music blocks around on the three light patches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zizzle Zoundz and Other Toys | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

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