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...always, accompanied by the accordion. Charles Aznavour, Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy and others - with their haunting and spirited ballads of regret and doomed love - were in vogue around the world. Now, Delerm and artists like Keren Ann, Benjamin Biolay, Carla Bruni and Thomas Fersen are making chansons chic again. The new-old sound incorporates elements of big band, swing, old-fashioned melodrama and whispery vocals. "Many musicians have a certain attitude, saying they do one kind of music but claim a certain pop aspect as well," says Delerm, sitting in a Paris café drinking orange press...
...Rain or Shine Forget about frumpy galoshes. Thanks to shoe designers Sigerson Morrison, even the messiest rainy days can be weathered in style with their chic rubber flats ($125) in a garden variety of colors...
...Business or Pleasure The new snug jacket from BCBG by Max Azria is chic enough to wear to the office-adding a dash of color to any workaday suit-or cool enough to step out in on casual occasions over jeans and a camisole...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
This being Britain, fastidious attention is paid to class issues, even among the criminal classes. That's especially true of XXXX, yearning to breathe more rarefied air. His apartment is done up in white-on-white style--chic photos on the wall, excellent Scotch on the coffee table, which is, of course, artily shot from the floor, looking up through the glass. This is, we think, a provisional environment, blank, characterless, impersonal. What he really wants is something darker, more traditional...