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...haired dreadlocks are commonplace. Fashion designers knock off urban street trends rather than the other way around. Gay rights are assumed: the latest campus cause is discrimination against "transgendered persons." Body piercing has gone mainstream. As in the return of Hush Puppies and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Xer chic is often retroeclectic. "Compared to any other generation born in this century, theirs is less cohesive, its experiences wider, its ethnicity more polyglot and its culture more splintery," write historians William Strauss and Neil Howe in their new book, The Fourth Turning, a study of generational change. "Today's young...
...figure and showed her the door. "It was complete discrimination against larger women," an indignant Kadden told The Times. "I was shocked and mortified." The 48-year-old Kadden, who at the time was sporting brown Lycra leggings and a loose, cactus-embroidered white shirt, dismisses as "fattism" the chic department store's response that her attire violated its strict code against extreme forms of dress. The security guard who first spotted Kadden's garb thought that her stretched-to-the-breaking-point leggings were actually panty hose, a Harrods spokesman said. Nor does the Knightsbridge store see the point...
...Blaine's best magic trick may be his own career. By updating corny card and coin feints and levitation stunts with post-grunge chic, he has leapfrogged from hustling sharpie to the star of his own sweeps-month network special, David Blaine: Street Magic (ABC, May 19, 8 p.m. E.T.). "It's a roll of the dice," admits ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses. "But David is very contemporary, of his generation, hip, cool. We think he can pull in the young, urban audience...
Seven billion, actually. And the mercurial software baron--who owes his success to a database-management program most Americans have never heard of--has taken full advantage of the fortune. For starters, Ellison could be a poster boy for Billionaire Chic. He drives expensive cars, loves beautiful women and jets off to exotic locations to sail his yacht. In Silicon Valley, where every day is casual Friday, the chairman of Oracle, based in San Mateo, Calif., dresses like the Prince of Wales. He shows up at industry functions in double-breasted suits, French cuffs and knuckle-size cuff links...
...even cheekier and younger, at 27--to guide the fortunes of Givenchy. At Louis Vuitton, a maker of fancy luggage and handbags that dates to 1854, he has hired an American, the young sportswear designer Marc Jacobs, to create a line of bags and sportswear to take on the chic of Gucci and Prada. Jacobs should give Vuitton a high and profitable fashion profile--what he was hired to do--stepping into a company whose business is up 54% since it became part of LVMH. Last week Jacobs showed his own line of American classics with lots of cashmere...