Word: chic
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...then took her flair for making clothing and filled a whole store with hipster wear. Her creations for Wrangler gave the classic brand a modern update with '70s rock-'n'-roll roots. But no one has taken the allure of the handmade further than Natalie Chanin, designer of the chic, individualistic and pricey Project Alabama line...
...With chic cheek-bones, a jawline that could slice bologna and a warm voice that could go shrill in odd moments, Carole Lombard was perfect casting for this 1934 romp, directed by Howard Hawks, about a Broadway director (John Barrymore in all his spuming comic majesty) and the actress who was his protege and is now his career lifeline. The film was a career maker for Lombard, who died in a plane crash...
...Lanna-inspired hotels and resorts are popping up like mushrooms in the northernmost provinces. Ultra-chic retreats like the Rachamanka and Tamarind Village have been booked solid in recent months. And now the soft-opened Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi Chiang Mai hotel, tel: (66-53) 888 888, is set to give Lanna style?characterized by sloping roofs, porches and houses built high off the ground?a new impetus. Pavilions, moats and reconditioned rice barns sit alongside 66 lavish private villas and nearly 80 suites, while the nearby Dheva Spa?over which dozens of wood-carvers sweated for three years...
...hour of Robbins’ arrival at the Pudding drew nigh, four spotlight beams swung across the industrial walls of neighboring Holyoke Center. Inside, the 117-year-old theater filled with tuxedoed men and women in chic eveningwear. An air of decidedly old-Harvard mirth descended as attendees hobnobbed and perused the program for HPT’s 157th annual musical, Terms of Frontierment. The show, which opened following the Man of the Year ceremony, adhered to the Pudding’s tradition of casting exclusively male actors in all parts...
...looking for delicacies beyond the signature lukewarm slice can now find an unnervingly violent host of new offerings, including “regent bull,” “chicken bomb,” and “New England clam chowder.” Très chic...