Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bubble Club sofa by Philippe Starck for Kartell The exuberant Starck made a splash with his polypropylene parody of the archetypal sofa in 2000, and it's now a chic poolside classic. Inset grooves for water drainage mean it's perfect for the life aquatic. The range is augmented by an armchair and occasional table, so you could set up your family room outdoors. www.kartell.it...
...charged with anticipation. The 5,000 Arabs in the audience break into deafening cheers, stomp their feet, clap their hands and chant "Sa-mi! Sa-mi!" until at last the lights go down. The orchestra swells and Sami Yusuf, 26, emerges through billows of smoke, dressed in a chic black suit and white open-collar shirt. Catching sight of him, the crowd goes crazy, screaming and whistling as though Elvis just entered the building. But when Yusuf begins to sing, it's clear he's not quite like other rock stars. "Peace and salutations upon you, O Messenger...
...playboys and European hipsters on such a steamy summer night. But with the city under siege, the only buzz coming from Beirut's bars is the hum of power generators. There's not a bikini in sight on the city's sunny shoreline or a parked Porsche in the chic shopping district. Few Lebanese saw it coming. After this country's 15-year civil war ended in 1990, the nation transformed itself from a byword for urban violence into the nightlife capital of the Middle East. Elites who had fled during the war poured back in, pumping billions of dollars...
...dress up the umpires, line judges and "ball kids." That imported Americanism - the traditional English terms remain ball boys and ball girls - is apt, since the sponsorship deal, worth an estimated $10 million over five years, was awarded to Polo Ralph Lauren, America's favorite purveyor of preppy chic. Elsewhere at Wimbledon a different designer has been competing for the attention - and cash - of fashionable tennis fans. Stella McCartney handpicked 19-year-old Russian Maria Kirilenko (who lost in the tournament's first round) to [an error occurred while processing this directive] model her latest range of tennis attire...
...even blame the filmmakers for mounting a seemingly ludicrous defense of Runway and its ilk. They have Miranda say that what her rag proposes as ultra chic one year eventually trickles down to Wal-Mart, where , in knock-off form, it makes everyone a little happier. This struck me as a pretty desperate rationalization. But then I glanced around the theater where I happened to be catching an early morning show of The Devil Wears Prada. It was full of large women in blue jeans who were not present to enjoy Andrea's moral triumph over the temptations...