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...American mail-order fashion. Talbot, who died on Aug. 30 at 89 of complications from Alzheimer's disease, founded the eponymous clothing store and catalog business with her husband Rudolf in 1947. Together they created a style she described as "smart but not faddy, fashionable but not funky, chic and understated...
...luxury market expanded in recent years to include new demographics, as surging home prices and easy access to cheap credit transformed ordinary people into the nouveau riche with an appetite for chic goods. Many used their homes as instant banking machines, tapping home equity loans to snap up clothes, handbags and shoes from the world's most prestigious labels. TV shows, such as Sex and the City, Project Runway and The Rachel Zoe Project added to the hype. (Read "Macy's: The Retail Universe...
...Likewise the Boston fashion blogosphere participates in a cool disregard of the next It item, taking notice of stylish residents regardless of whether they’re wearing the season’s latest looks. Martini Severin is one such blogger and the photographer behind Beyond Boston Chic, “a part of a growing street-style movement around the world where photographers attempt to capture the style aesthetic or essence of their city.” “It’s hard to describe the “Boston look” because there...
...started something of a trend. At the chic Café Moderne, Normandy-born Jean-Luc LeFrançois serves Parisian delicacies like Gâtinais-rabbit farci with Poissy-cherry chutney and fricassee of Brie-Comte-Robert escargots with girolle mushrooms. "Like Alléno, I believe that, as Paris chefs, it's our responsibility to work with the produce of our region," he says...
...there is only one audience for this particular extravaganza: the Chinese people. And Beijingers don't seem concerned that their city has been turned into a high-security zone once again. "The rehearsal was a major headache, you couldn't get anywhere because of the traffic jams," says a chic woman in her early 30s. "But I think everybody understands. It's a very important day for the country, after...