Word: florals
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...Made from water drawn from 460 ft. below the Russian ground, Zyr is distilled five times with winter wheat and rye. This creates a velvety-smooth feel in the mouth, a floral scent with a faint vanilla taste and a sipping vodka that is at its best drunk neat or on the rocks. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...Could it sound any less glamorous? Yet this synthetic rubber, used for fan belts, wire casings and hydraulic hoses, is making its way into the designs of some of the world's most prestigious fashion houses. For spring at Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs offers a white waistcoat and black floral miniskirt, and at Chanel, Lagerfeld weighs in with a gray fishnet jacket--all made of neoprene. At Balenciaga, Nicholas Ghesquiere uses a neoprene-like fabric to make surferesque tops. And where the big designers go, the rest will follow...
Eddie Zaratsian, who runs Tic-Tock, a Los Angeles floral store, can produce a genteel centerpiece, but perhaps due to his vast clientele in the film industry, he is inclined to create something dramatic rather than traditionally romantic: say, a small, distressed-wood chest filled with mossy greens, chocolate-colored roses and blood-red orchids that would cause the most brooding goth to swoon...
Perhaps such floral provocations are part of the shift away from the cozy and toward the industrial in our homes. Or maybe as florists eschew mere arrangement and become "event planners," their work becomes more ambitious...
...December for his praise of the segregationist 1948 presidential bid of Strom Thurmond. But Bush has revived a practice of paying homage to an even greater champion of the Confederacy--Jefferson Davis. Last Memorial Day, for the second year in a row, Bush's White House sent a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. Six days later, as the United Daughters of the Confederacy celebrated Jefferson Davis' birthday there, Washington chapter president Vicki Heilig offered a "word of gratitude to George W. Bush" for "honoring" the Old South's dead...