Word: chic
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Cleve. 8, Chic...
...York some of the newer designers seemed to be talking only to one another. Sui, a smart stylist who is capable of authentic downtown chic, concentrated instead on jarring outfits that needed translation, either to fit the body or to decipher where they might possibly be worn. Britain's Tonya Sarne, who designs Ghost and was a big hit last year, seemed intent on damning British society rather than selling beautiful or interesting clothes. Bizarrely, several outfits were named for Prime Minister John Major. They consisted of clashing hodgepodges of colors, stripes, prints and waiflike little dresses that exposed...
...popular art, smoking was always chic. Fred and Ginger, Bogie and Bacall, every gangster, gunslinger and G.I. used cigarettes to emblematize their suavity, maturity, grit. Kids loved the lordly caterpillar in Disney's Alice in Wonderland, purring, "Whoooo are yooooo?" while blowing his Alpha-Bits smoke rings. For the college set, Jean-Paul Sartre and Edward R. Murrow were the patron saints of nicotine. F.D.R.'s cigarette, in a holder at a jaunty angle, proved him both a dapper patrician and a man of the people, while the . can-do bosses of the public weal sucked on fat cigars. Smoke...