Word: coco
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...transcends fashion and becomes a classic: the Gucci loafer, the Burberry trench coat, the Hermes bag. Creating something iconic is only half the battle; it's what comes next that counts--the tweaks that render these things as cool today as they were the year they were created. When Coco Chanel--above, circa 1926--died in 1971, her classic tweed jacket could have died too. She herself had kept the look alive for more than five decades. How much longer a life did a thousand-dollar jacket deserve? Ask Karl Lagerfeld. In the 20 years he has been designing...
...SLOUCH CHIC The shrugged-on silhouette came from Coco's first big idea of taking a lover's sweater, cutting it down the front and sewing ribbon on the edging...
...with energizing yerba mate. But J.O.E. takes the concept further in four versions. GO J.O.E. combines coffee with five types of ginseng and is meant to increase energy levels. KNOW J.O.E. offers ginkgo biloba, which purportedly can improve memory. SLOW J.O.E. has calming lavender and chamomile. There's also CoCo J.O.E.-- because who doesn't feel better after a little chocolate? --By Lisa McLaughlin
DIED. SUZY PARKER, 69, 1950s supermodel whose red hair, green eyes and much envied bone structure made her Coco Chanel's "signature" face and the highest-paid model of her day; after a series of illnesses; in Montecito, Calif. A favorite subject of Richard Avedon, she inspired the Audrey Hepburn role in the 1957 film Funny Face, in which she also appeared. Her brief film career included a lead role in the 1957 comedy Kiss Them for Me opposite Cary Grant...
...race to tempt the palates of a generation brought up on mocha frappes--and maybe even, in some cases, grab the sweet-toothed fake-ID crowd--what chance does, say, a fine vodka like the venerable Russian Magadanskaya have against Ciclon, the tequila-and-lime-spiked rum, or Coco coconut-flavored rum, both getting big play at the Bacardi booth? ("There's not another 70-proof coconut rum out there," says Steven Messer, a Bacardi assistant marketing manager.) Or against Atomic X's cloying, vaguely tropical, nonalcoholic energy drink being touted as a bar pick...