Word: chic
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...forerunner of the mini-genre of “insider chic,” Kiss Me, Kate depicts a warring couple, actor-director Fred Graham (Joseph H. Weintraub ’05) and starlet Lilli Vanessi (Jean M. Flannery ’04), whose offstage feud affects the performance of a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in which the two co-star. Its top-drawer Porter score, filled with tricky diction and prankster flourishes, encourages performances that are expansive, even shamelessly theatrical...
...seen on the Paris catwalk of designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. Selling for just $3 in Brazil, the shoes are fetching from $12 to $80 in the U.S. For fashionistas seeking a more formal summer look, Sigerson Morrison has created a new silhouette for the flip-flop by adding a chic kitten heel. The sandals are available online at vivre.com for $85. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...statue of Archduke Albrecht out over the street below. Although not yet in place, the wing will provide a visual link between the two levels as well as a bold, easily identifiable symbol of the union of old and new that defines the museum. The museum's shop, a chic, spacious room with black stained cherrywood furniture, gray leather seating and a two-color marble (travertine and rosso levanto) floor, was designed by Briton Callum Lumsden, while its elegant café-restaurant - with a terrace overlooking the leafy Burggarten - was the work of Austrian Arkan Zeytinoglu. Although Schr...
Fred Astaire And Ginger Rogers Dancing Chic to Chic...
DIED. SIR HARDY AMIES, 93, Savile Row designer who clothed Queen Elizabeth for four decades; in Langford, England. London's most successful couturier (with model Faraday, above), he was a self-described snob who disdained strapless gowns and resisted critics who would have the Queen look more chic, insisting her understated style suited her. "I'm for elitism and its survival," he said...