Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Terror chic has gone the way of heroin chic. Expect pretty ads for spring. Designer Marc Jacobs, who was in New York on Sept. 11 and was so shaken that he had to postpone his Louis Vuitton collection in Paris, has now said that the new Vuitton ads won't feature travel imagery. Instead? A fantasy, fairytale theme...
...time when French food became chic, Child helped popularize the cuisine and bring French cooking down to earth. On television, Child was known for hacking the heads off fish, firing up her blowtorch to caramelize a creme brulee and trilling about “wonderful” and “delicious” dishes...
...seems as though anyone who was anybody was in Paris during the 1930s. Despite a worldwide depression and an unstable political climate, Paris thrived. Paris embodied cosmopolitan sophistication and chic innovation. A motley crew of artists, intellectuals, bohemians, musicians, socialites and hangers-on soaked up the atmosphere and added to the legend. It was into this electric world of jazz, fashion and culture that Huene, an aristocratic Russian emigré, found himself. Before long he was the chief photographer of Paris Vogue, and a symbol of the very world he captured so beautifully on film. In 1930, Huene met Horst...
What the American public likes in its First Lady--a warm, domestic woman strong enough to support her husband in his demanding work but without the initiative to actually participate in it--doesn't offer much to the serious biographer. Jacqueline Kennedy, who brought youthful chic to the White House but didn't test any of the limits of her role, has inspired dozens of books in which the photographs often seem more important than the text. With Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years (Free Press; 406 pages; $25), Barbara Leaming seeks to correct the balance, arguing...
...desert when the nights are turning cold and sharp. There's ice on the pomegranate trees. So I went out and bought one of these heavy woolen shawls in the bazaar. Good camoflague, too. I thought I'd blend right in. But instead of looking noble and chic the way these Afghan warriors do, I just feel like I'm shambling around in my bed covers...