Word: chic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...venture will be aimed at what O'Harro calls "Government superchic, not rednecks." While conservative Washingtonians are more attuned to Blue Moon than bluegrass, O'Harro is confident that his Saddletramp saloon will be a boomer. As Ronald Reagan's rancheros take over the town, western chic may be a capital gain. -By Michael Demarest
Nancy's favorite designers are Adolfo, Bill Blass and Galanos, whom she admires especially for what she calls their "simple, classical lines." She has a penchant for red, but almost all her clothes are colorful. In Adolfo's view, she projects "a chic, affluent way of looking, extremely sophisticated." Blass calls her style "crisp and fresh." According to Gale Hayman, co-owner of Giorgio's, a shop on Rodeo Drive where Mrs. Reagan has bought some of her clothes, she will be "very proper, very dignified, like Pat Nixon. But she will go a few steps further...
Pierre Cardin wallpaper. Gloria Vanderbilt sweatsuits. Calvin Klein denim diaper covers. The designer craze has made flauntable fashions more commonplace than chic. Now Louis Vuitton, the French maker of luxury luggage, has concluded that many self-respecting snobs may prefer more subtlety. This fall Vuitton will introduce a new line of trunks and suitcases that do not have its famous LV initials sprinkled across the covering fabric...
...Crimson basketball squad has been living life in the fast lane lately (the four days in Texas were oh, so chic)--and seems to enjoy it immensely. But to be precise, maybe one should say the team has been living life fast in the lane--and winning as a result...
...movies, it is usually the couple two rows back who turn out to be practitioners of voice-over chic, tenderly broadcasting all the half-baked thoughts they ever half-understood about Fellini. Dial a phone number and the absent owner's talking machine coughs a set piece of cuteness before granting a moment for you to interject a brief message. As for bridge players, the typical foursome hardly finishes the play of a hand before the air burbles with a redundant rehashing...