Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When times are tough and consumers are "trading down" to buy more inexpensive goods, you'd think that a discount retailer like Target would flourish. After all, it's the place you go for quality clothes at affordable prices - cheap-chic designer Isaac Mizrahi offers a line - low-cost home accessories and perhaps a grocery item...
...tables before the night is over. Another hot spot, Palma (Calle del Curato #38-137; +575-660-27-96), has a Colombian-Italian fusion menu and sits across from the luxury Charleston Hotel, an old Santa Teresa convent that has been fully restored. But the restaurant is so wannabe chic that its stark, monochromatic décor nearly overwhelms the excellent food. After dinner, the party continues. One can dance on the rooftop of the new boutique Hotel LM (Calle de la Mantilla #3-56; +575-664-91-00) or compete with minor European royalty for a table...
...chic" over? Well, at Fashion Week (in New York City), there's been a universal sense of horror at the diamonds and furs on the runway. We get to that basic theme - conspicuous consumption is bad manners. But chic isn't gone. If anything, conservative chic is back, because looking good is often a real part of keeping your job or finding your job. So you may not spend money on Armani suits, but there are lots of people who are much more conscious of looking good. I have a neighbor who was laid off four months...
...time to tell him?His eyes kept inflating. “Don’t ever say that again, Winifred.”“Sure,” I said, examining the toes of my shoes. They’d been so chic ‘til last year! War, you ruiner of fashion. He turned and spit to the dust. We went miles without a word.But just when I was checking my hand for raindrops, he burst out, “You don’t make sense, Winnie. The way you’re acting...
...Consignment is also benefiting in part from the rise of eco-chic. Some shoppers see buying used clothing as a way to both save money and help the environment...