Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chic Palestinian woman in dark glasses strides toward an Israeli checkpoint separating Ramallah from Jerusalem. Armed soldiers shout at her to stop, but she quickens her pace. Then she removes her glasses. Her gaze mesmerizes the guards. As she passes, they wilt in submission--and the tower collapses...
...lying if I said that I was anything but completely ecstatic to be inside the global headquarters of corporate-approved hipness. The studios were decorated in stainless steel faux-warehouse chic. The walls were even sprayed with graffiti. MTV hopefuls, the requisite mish-mash of minorities and uber-prepsters sat on a plush couch. I joined my fellow VJ wannabes and sat silently pondering the room’s aesthetic of exposed plumbing...
...their architects. Libeskind and his wife and partner Nina--she also manages his practice--are recognizable specimens of the global cultural elite. As a rule, they dress all in black and gray, the International Gothic of metropolitan chic. Nothing else about them is dour. His conversation, in particular, is a series of sharp, rabbity observations on history, music and architecture, punctuated by bursts of laughter. He reminds you of a cross between Martin Scorsese and Tickle Me Elmo...
...more different movies than the spring releases Matrix Reloaded and Down with Love. Or could there? Matrix achieves its cool look partly with its retro-futuristic clothes. Is Keanu Reeves' Neo from the future or from some severe, high-collared Edwardian past? In Love, Renee Zellweger's chic period ensembles look so very fresh. "The early '60s is the last time clothes were modern," says Love's costume designer, Daniel Orlandi. "Colorful, simple and architectural." So what will the future look like? Apparently, it depends on which past you like best...
...venture, the Red Capital Club, opened in 1999 and was inspired by the comments of high-ranking Chinese visitors to his renovated courtyard home. They were awed by his collection of revolutionary furnishings, so he came up with the idea for a restaurant that celebrates what he calls communist chic. "China has modernized so much, so quickly, that Beijing now looks like Los Angeles," says Brahm. "The people have lost the kind of cultural spirit that used to drive the place. It used to be that China was all ideology and no material goods; now it is all materialism...