Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Fabrice Luchini arrives fashionably late for our lunch date at the Ritz bar. He is wearing a black sweatshirt, black trousers and a 24-hour stubble - a little touch of bohemian chic that stands out smartly among the designer suits and Hermès scarves...
...play with the plush koalas in the Discovery Channel Store.) Anyway, to make a long story short, Alanis helped expurgate long-standing rage-and with this mass catharsis came mass complacency. The Spice Girls were born, TRL helped launch Britney, Christina and the other blonde nincompoops, and angry chic just seemed, well, old. But perhaps the world just got a bit too mysogynistic for its own good-in the past few weeks, we are seeing hints that the unconscious rage might be surfacing...
...shift in priorities has a surface gloss of stylishness also. Call it thrifty chic. Penny pinching is back in vogue, even among the rich. Jackie O. shops at the Gap. Christie Brinkley wears plain white men's T shirts. Outside B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once...
...dark that fashionistas were having their jeans dry-cleaned, lest they fade. But no more. Distressed denim is now the stylish option. So get out your oldest pair, chop off the hems, pin up the holes and throw on a thousand-dollar coat. Violà! The newest in street chic...
...reason, the planes opened machine-gun and cannon fire. The DC-4's captain Philip Blown tried evasive action, hurling the DC-4 into a steep dive. But the airliner kept taking hits. Syd's Pirates: A Story of an Airline (Durnmount, 1983), by retired Cathay senior captain Charles "Chic" Eather, documents the attack. Eather, now 81 and living on Australia's Gold Coast, recalls that despite Blown's outstanding airmanship, there was no way to evade the Chinese attackers...