Word: elegante
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In a bid to gain market share, the Arrow clothing company is resurrecting a venerable dandy: the Arrow Collar Man, advertising heartthrob of the flapper era. The image of an elegant Manhattan clubman was created in 1905, when the company had its headquarters in Troy, N.Y., by Illustrator J.C. Leyendecker...
Bok, of course, remains proud, if discreetly critical, of his elegant academic republic. Contemplating the spectrum of improvements that might be made, he asks "What doesn't need work?" A fair question, especially since a university's reason for being is to improve and disseminate a thing called knowledge, which...
But soon the Lauren look began to catch on. The designer quickly became something of a champion for well-bred suburbanites who felt manipulated by European couturiers. "Nobody is impressed with elaborate clothes anymore," he declared in 1974. "A girl who is solid doesn't want to be known as...
And yet such works are very unlike their ancestors. One must look first at the differences, then at the similarities -- so Rowell argues; and the show is based on her belief that "sculpture is in essence a 20th century idea." The result is a big exhibition conceived with elegant if...
Raisa Gorbachev has been an elegant companion on her husband Mikhail's visits to factories, farms and foreign countries. Now the wife of the Soviet leader is stepping out on her own. When she attended a Chinese embassy fashion show earlier this month, her visit was seen as a small...