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...Xilion, the company innovates by developing coatings that produce various effects to make the beads more pearl-like or more metallic looking, for example. New colors or even variations in coloration make the stones milkier or more opaque in appearance. Recently the company has experimented with new materials, applying crystal glazes to silicon or weaving the tiniest crystals into mesh...
...previous job at a New York City p.r. firm, Nadja says, she realized Swarovski had not been effective at communicating its link with fashion. She launched several initiatives, including setting up a showroom in New York, where American designers are invited to paw through 200 drawers filled with crystals. There are event sponsorships and clever collaborations with fashion and interior designers, the most successful of which has been Crystal Palace, launched in 2002 for inventive lighting projects. Several of them, particularly Norwegian designer Tord Bontje's Blossom chandeliers in the shape of a branch (the small one is priced...
Langes-Swarovski argues that crystal should not be considered a mere pedestrian trim. "It's more of an expressive element than a zipper or a button. In all the various creative disciplines, whether it's fashion or interior design, crystal has a role of amplifying creative expression," he says. "With Liberace or in the late '90s, crystal was sometimes a metaphor for superficiality because of this bling-bling element." Today, however, company executives talk about the "poetry of precision" and how to take founder Daniel Swarovski's original ideas to new levels...
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...DEGENERES, the comedian and talk-show host known for her casual style, has just been announced as M.C. of Hollywood's most glamorous night, the Oscars. "Ellen completely fits the bill," says the show's producer, Laura Ziskin. By that we assume she means that, like former hosts Billy Crystal and Jon Stewart, DeGeneres is funny and warm and not that, like Crystal and Stewart, she's hardly ever in good movies...