Word: chic
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...spotted Bill looking chic in Cabot Science Library with this laptop bag—more staid than your average man purse—which he acquired a year ago to hold his Dell computer. He describes his bag as functional, but says he usually sports a backpack. “The bag makes me look serious,” says Little, “but I assure...
...what's with Target? It's known as one of the smartest retail operators in the country, if not the world, having practically invented the cheap-chic mass market. Disabled Americans are sitting there with $176 billion, and though it pains me personally to admit this, the number of people whose aging eyes make reading websites tough is growing every day. How could executives of Target fail to see the overwhelming benefit of making Target.com accessible to this market...
...Friday morning in Paris, several models appeared on the runway with pills of all shapes and sizes seemingly spilling down the fronts of their black chiffon minidresses. Pills were also strung along the gold chain handles of those famous quilted bags. It was just one small detail in a chic show, but somehow in this lackluster fashion season it resonated. Has fashion come to this: A medical emergency...
...thought back then, when porno was chic and directors cinematically rambunctious, was not that movie theaters should be awash in closeups of rutting sex workers. It was that films should be able to explore the emotional vectors of activities people engage in every day of their lives, especially when movies endlessly and graphically depicted the moment people die. There was simply more human drama to be found in the spectacle of two folks sporting in bed than of a guy shooting or carving another guy up. And as art-house auteurs were getting pornier, porn directors were getting artier. They...
...Project Runway.” Bravo’s fashion design competition gave all of us a new reason to live every Wednesday night and even seems to have inspired a few Harvard students to stow their innumerable pairs of sweatpants in favor of donning something slightly more chic. True, about 65% of the dialogue is the same in every episode (“In fashion, one day you’re in, and the next day you’re out”). But in the case of Heidi Klum’s lines, it?...