Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...generation, on its daring group of activist lawyers, on preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and the challenges this showcase will pose to China's political system, on how suburbia is transforming the nation and how China is fast becoming a synonym for international chic. And we will continue to write and report on how America and China must interact in the 21st century. Henry Luce's great passions of the 20th century remain ours today...
...possible that these stores are becoming--egads!--cheap chic, as Target was a few years ago? Consultant Wolfe thinks so. "It's almost cool now to say 'I bought it at Penney's,'" he says. Suzanne O'Callahan, 35, a mother of four and a regular Kohl's shopper, certainly agrees. "I just walked through Macy's and didn't find anything, but I've been here for about an hour already," she said, her arms full of clothes, on a recent afternoon at the new Jersey City store. "I always shop at Kohl's. And so do my friends...
...Queen. Now designers and retailers as diverse as Alexander McQueen and L.L. Bean are indulging in the traditional textile. Kate Spade's wool boot is boxed out in plaid, as is Estée Lauder's jeweled compact, illustrating the evolution of this onetime preppy look. What was once campus chic is now runway cool. Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati even featured it for spring. But who better than Burberry, epic old English purveyor of plaid, to square up its new men's fragrance, Burberry London, in a bottle covered with tartan fabric...
...born, based in New York City, with no classical training, Duncan Quinn is a new breed of tailor. His Savile Row--inspired style inarguably leans toward the Brit-rocker persuasion?these definitely aren't the proper suits a barrister would wear to the office. But there's something incredibly chic about Quinn's look, especially out of an English context, when worn in the good old U.S.A. With stores in New York City and Los Angeles already under his belt, Quinn is digging deeper into the heart of the country, with a new location opening next month in Dallas...