Word: cachet
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...When they can't do very much equitably, they tend to pressure the party over which they have some cachet," Peretz said...
...clients at golf dates." Robinson angrily denies such charges, arguing that outsiders have no idea of his schedule or how he spends his day. "Let them use an 80-hour week as a denominator," Robinson says. He knows it will take that much time, well spent, to retrieve the cachet that American Express has left home without...
...photographer can take a model only so far. She must still impress the fashion-magazine editors, who make and break careers. Though the magazines offer next to no money -- models get less than $300 for a Vogue cover -- they provide cachet and prestige. Among the dozens of fashion publications, Vogue (U.S. circ. more than 1.2 million) is the most powerful. The magazine maintains its hold on the market, says Grace Coddington, fashion director of the U.S. edition (there are nine Vogues around the world), in part because its top photographers do not work for competitors of Conde Nast, Vogue...
Chiropractic has even achieved a certain celebrity cachet. Quarterback Joe Montana got his brawny back manipulated on national TV (during the Superbowl pregame show). Cybill Shepherd grew so attached to her practitioner that she married him. Overseas, where chiropractic is both more popular and more widely accepted by doctors, Princess Di regularly gets her regal back cracked. And Russian ballet stars Vadim Pisarev and Marina Bogdanova reportedly would not risk an arabesque without a periodic adjustment...
...house of Chanel has lent its great international cachet to upstart denim. German-born couturier Karl Lagerfeld's romance with the fabric is a weapon in his war against what he calls "the diktats of fashion," whereby certain garments and accessories can be worn only in particular settings -- silk for splendor, denim for fun. In his designs for Chanel, the maestro is mixing up materials -- tweed, denim, grosgrain -- with such sleight of hand that some of his efforts look more formal than his variations on the house's classic...