Word: chic
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...thanks to the frenetic pace of le monde de la mode, you can now don your toupee and voila! Tres chic...
...line apparel conglomerate. There is the Donna Karan collection for men and women, top-of-the-line fashion ($650 for a pair of woman's pants, $1,350 for a man's wool crepe suit). Then there is the exploding DKNY division, which showed other designers how to sell chic women's sportswear at relatively modest prices ($450 for a woman's wool blazer vs. - $1,100 for a comparable collection garment). Now DKNY has been expanded to include clothes for children and men. Karan also has licensing deals to make hosiery, a line of intimate apparel and eyeglasses...
They follow the lead of Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple (1984), which targeted as its audience the cinema intelligentsia bored with both the languid pace of European festival films and the exhausted formulas of Hollywood. These moviegoers want a little kick with their chic. To their rescue ride the art- house outlaws...
...value in purely economic terms. We're talking about $37.5 million retail dollars just for the book, and $20 million for the album, at the very least. Score one for market capitalism. For this alone, Madonna merits far more respect than any federally funded artist in the oh-so-chic secular high church of contemporary art. She is hawking herself on the open market instead of playing courtesan to the National Endowment for the Arts. If you don't approve of her performance or her product, you don't have to buy it. Your tax dollars aren't at stake...
...with the energetically bizarre, and rightly so, since it purports to be the document of "the global teens," the MTV generation born after the twentysomethings who were featured in Coupland's first novel, Generation X, published in 1991. But Generation X was so peppered with trademarks, jargon and faux chic that the cardboard characters collapsed. Although fictional trademarks also abound in Shampoo Planet (everything from ElviSheet computer software to the KittyWhip Kat Food System), Coupland does a better job of fleshing out these characters because he views them through the prism of conflict: hippie parents of the '60s raising their...