Word: chic
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Dorm-Room Chic...
...that the European designers on display at the spring 2005 collection last week in Milan went beyond manufacturing clothes abroad; they outsourced their inspiration. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who had recently traveled to Botswana, brought back a sexy show filled with zebra-striped chiffon dresses, ivory bangles and chic safari jackets. After a 10-day romp through Asia last April, Giorgio Armani returned with a vision of a fictional Asian woman in soft satin pajama pants, boxy Chinese jackets and coolie hats. Gianfranco Ferre looked over the horizon to exotic locales like San Salvador de Bahia and the Amazon...
...Teas, grossed $1 million on a $24,000 budget. In the '60s he shifted to melodramas (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), to which he later added color and an insane pace, creating the nutty masterpiece Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with tyro scripter Roger Ebert. Hard-core-porn chic eventually made his genial farces irrelevant as erotic provocations, but priceless as expressions of a true movie original. DIED. NIGEL NICOLSON, 87, British biographer, publisher and ex- M.P. who preserved the literary legacy of the Bloomsbury group, notably that of Virginia Woolf; in Sissinghurst, England. His best-known work, Portrait...
...session the meet and greet, and because the spontaneity is scheduled and the patronage barely disguised, it is often the grimmest 15 minutes of any touring musician's day. But Tim McGraw loves it. He has his road crew set up a tent with a tiny stage and shabby-chic furniture. He keeps everyone plied with Bud Light, the beer he hawks in TV commercials. Then he saunters in, clasps each outstretched hand, delivers a perfectly timed moment of eye contact and sits down for a quick acoustic song that doubles as his vocal warm-up. When it's over...
...indulgence, if not flamboyance, was evoked by clothes that went in the other direction. Suits that were spare and sleek were also impeccably cut in plush fabrics. The unifying notion was the acknowledgment that just as for some women, there are men who appreciate and enjoy wearing well-made, chic clothing for their own edification, not that of their boss or wife...