Word: fashionization
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...DOLLAR CHEST by Jimmie Martin Money talks, but should it shout all over French antiques? Design duo Jimmie Martin (they're Swedes living in London) paint venerable items in gold and silver leaf and graffiti them with if-you've-got-it-flaunt-it slogans and symbols. Fashion designer Paul Smith says new-Brit design twists the classics; here, it positively makes them reel. www.jimmiemartin.co.uk
...Uemura started a company called Japan Makeup, which began with a stylish, gallery-like boutique in Tokyo's fashionable Omotesando district. The company became Shu Uemura Cosmetics in 1983, riding the wave of the fast-growing Japanese economy, taking advantage of the country's overflowing consumerism and hunger for Western trends. Uemura combined art, nature and technology to build a line of cosmetics and beauty products that soon went global and now pulls in an estimated $100 million in sales from Shu Uemura stores in fashion centers worldwide...
With his fresh concepts of beauty, Uemura joined the generation of Japanese taste-makers who established the country's global influence in design and fashion. Among his contemporaries were the fashion designers Issey Miyake and Kenzo Takada, groundbreaking designers who, along with Uemura, however, continued the centuries-old tradition of Japanese males being the arbiters of female beauty. Men, for example, portrayed women's roles in kabuki plays since women were banned from the stage...
...firm but measured fashion, Obama spent time at each stop turning back the criticisms leveled at him by the Clinton campaign. He said the "real gamble" was not being a relative newcomer to presidential politics, but was instead "to expect the same old folks doing the same old thing over and over and over" to make a difference. "We have to turn the page...
What losing streak? The Harvard men’s basketball team ended its month-long seven-game skid in dominating fashion, routing visiting Dartmouth, 82-56, on Saturday at Lavietes Pavilion in the Ivy League opener for both teams. The Crimson (5-11, 1-0 Ivy) fell behind after Alex Barnett connected on the first shot of the game for the Big Green (5-8, 0-1 Ivy), but that was all that would go wrong for Harvard. Captain Brad Unger converted a three-point play off a nice pass from Jeremy Lin to give the Crimson the lead...