Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard Square’s many byways, few document the passing of time the way Brattle Street does, from the arrival of modern chic stores like Jasmine Sola to the closure of old-time favorites like the Billings and Stover Apothecary...
...heavy-metal concert had already ended at West Hollywood's House of Blues. But upstairs, in the nightclub's Foundation Room, the party rocked on. The VIP area, decked out in opium-den chic, is where show-biz types go to guzzle champagne in roped-off security. Unfortunately, by the time rock-music pioneer Phil Spector met B-movie actress Lana Clarkson there, the careers of both had seen better days: he was a legendary has-been; she had been a wannabe for way too long. The encounter would prove fatal...
...homespun craft of needlepoint is getting awfully chic. According to the Craft Yarn Council of America, about 38 million women practice a yarn-based hobby, up from 34 million in 1998. Many of them these days are stylemakers who, instead of cross-stitching throw pillows, are creating fashion accessories such as belts, purses and bracelets, often decorated with their names or cutesy icons like ladybugs or mushrooms. Stitched pansy purses designed by needlepoint doyenne Erica Wilson were featured in designer Anna Sui's latest runway show, inspiring trendsetters to take up the needle. Sales of needlepoint purse kits...
...best shopping streets are the main artery, Rue d'Alsace-Lorraine, the pedestrian streets St. Rome/des Changes, Pomme and Filatiers, and the chic Rue Croix-Baragnon. Great artisan pottery at Nature et Sens, Rue Pharaon (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 14 12 37). Violette & Pastel, Rue St. Pantaléon (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 22 14 22), has candies, liqueurs and perfumes made from violets, the city's emblem...
Venu saunters in fifteen minutes later, sporting a tan leather jacket and a Euro-chic haircut. As it turns out, the two have met before. After all, as Venu asks rhetorically, “Can a date really be blind when you’re gay at Harvard?” They greet each other with affected relief, and a waitress guides the pair to an “intimate” table for two, under the gaze of a camera and reporters...