Word: chanelling
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...years since Coco Chanel's bronzed mannequins helped make the perfect tan a symbol of leisure and affluence, a well-browned body seems to have joined the pantheon of inalienable human entitlements, right there alongside life, liberty and the pursuit of good TV reception. How else to explain the fuss made last week in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association about the newest way to achieve that sun-kissed look: by injection...
...hears that these late November meetings are self-sufficient entities--complete, whole football seasons synthesized into three hour, red and blue capsules, to be swallowed only in the Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium. What more can be said? The 75,000 spectators, the sounds and colors, the brandy and Chanel-scented air--all the riotous and mellow components of the Weekend are, above all, tributes to a football game that, year after year begins with little, brews for sixty minutes, and produces greatness...
...breaking up of fashion," in her words. "Women are looking for things that are more their own," she says, "and less of a designer statement." In other words, fewer women feel the need to wear Armani or Karan or any label head to toe. They'll happily pair a Chanel jacket, say, with a DKNY skirt and not worry about getting reported to the fashion police...
...lease on life. "There will always be designer customers," says DKNY's Seegal, who has been wearing designer labels since she first splurged on Betsey Johnson as a high school student. "They're basically snobs. The feeling is, 'If I can afford a $3,000 Chanel suit, it makes me stand out.' Are we going to do away with status? No." For now, however, those status seekers are playing it very close to the vest...
...Says Noelle Duperrier- Simond, who works on the L'Oreal account at McCann-Erickson's Paris office: "These girls have the looks that work everywhere they're seen. That's what the client is paying for." The face of Isabella Rossellini adorns Lancome ads worldwide; Evangelista and Turlington push Chanel clothes in 23 countries...