Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Next Big Thing in Frocks. Magazines have written worshipfully about him. Manolo Blahnik collaborates with him on shoes. Posen's shows feature A-list models like Naomi Campbell, whom he pays in clothes. And during last week's Fashion Week, when all the most influential sheiks of chic were in Manhattan, Bloomingdale's devoted a row of windows to his work. "I haven't seen such talent since Marc Jacobs," says Kal Ruttenstein, Bloomingdale's senior vice president of fashion direction...
...takes the alcoholic husband from Written on the Wind, the race mixing of Imitation of Life and the matron-in-love-with-her-gardener plot of All That Heaven Allows, then trumps them by making the gardener a black man and the alcoholic spouse gay. The film wears its chic, imitation-of-Sirk style like a mink stole at a country-club ball, and as the matron, Julianne Moore gives a tautly frazzled turn that is a lock for an Oscar nomination. The problem is that Haynes reduces most of his characters to stick figures bearing placards. The film...
...Customers look for something new. The hip ones want something other than just a regular pair of boots.' The trend is more rooted in Italy than Arizona. According to Shanghai Tang's international marketing manager Joanne Ooi, buckskin, fringes and cowboy boots are the latest twist on the 'motorcycle chic' look engineered by Gucci and Nicolas Ghesquiere a few years back. 'There is a Western vibe in fashion now. (Designers) are looking to the Wild West for inspiration.' Giddy...
...into an exclusive club, you can always start your own. That's what the guys do in the Smirnoff Ice commercial, creating their own hot nightspot filled with chic, young things and sweaty bottles of malt beverages...
Susan Tabak is a personal shopper--a really personal shopper. For $1,500 a day, she'll take you and your friends to the chic boutiques in Paris and make sure you get the treatment from the snooty sales assistants that your hard-earned greenbacks deserve. But just in case you don't have an extra few thousand to unload, here are some of her secrets. They should work at the mall...