Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...take fashion tips from starchy Steffi Graf. But now, with two bold, stylish women--Serena and Venus Williams--ruling the game, the fashion industry is playing mixed doubles with the world of tennis. At the spring 2004 menswear shows in Milan last week, Gucci designer Tom Ford introduced a chic take on the tennis bag in crocodile and a Stan Smith-style sneaker with croc trim. At the menswear shows in Paris, meanwhile, Louis Vuitton featured tennis whites as a major theme. Over at Wimbledon, where tennis was actually being played, Venus Williams was serving up her new look...
...largely the fault of a whacked-out world. After the release of 1997's OK Computer (voted best album of the 20th century by the slightly presentist readers of England's Q magazine), Radiohead appeared to become the band--and the brand--of a certain kind of contrarian chic. If you were smart, cool and worried about the world, nothing broadcast it quicker than some casually scattered Radiohead discs. Yorke blames the forces of commerce for making him feel like a cartoon. "Ultimately you get to a point--Coldplay's a good example right now--where no matter what...
Carolyn, let’s say I’m headed out to a chic new bar and I’m planning on attracting some hotties like moths to a light. Should I just insert the word “Harvard” into my usual pick-up lines? Or should I just work it into the conversation...
...pure Britannia, the view through gloriously oversized windows of the Common was quintessential ye olde world Boston. The temporal/spatial confusions only continued: once languidly positioned on a brocade chaise lounge like characters out of E.M. Forster, we were presented not with the expected cup of tea, but rather with chic green apple martinis and minimalist Japanese delicacies served on a South African styled wrought iron centerpiece...
...Then, after these grim fairy tales, we would go to a formal beach party thrown by the films' producers and discuss the plight of the world's unfortunates over caviar and bottles of Ch?teau Mouton Rothschild. That's radical chic at cinema's most glamorous clambake...