Word: grosgrain
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...look from Proenza Schouler's fall 2007 collection 4 Joh. Backhausen & Söhne Leaf Pattern pillow designed by Heinz Weingarten, 1912 ($55; neuegalerie.org 5 Bottega Veneta Sfera long black diamond earrings ($37,000; bottegaveneta.com 6 Dior Christal 33-mm watch ($13,995; eluxury.com 7 Bally Cande velvet heel with grosgrain detail ($550; bally.com 8 Roger Vivier Manchette TV enamel cuff with gold buckle details ($350; 212-861-5371) 9 Laura Kirar Collection for Baker Vienna armchair ($1,680; bakerfurniture.com
...menswear designer Thom Browne, any bells and whistles come hidden in the stitching. His dinner jackets and tuxedos, fashioned out of workaday cotton canvas, are bedecked with old-world details like grosgrain lining on a working sleeve vent or hand-stitched working buttonholes. "The detailing is never overt," he says. "Sometimes only the owner of the thing knows about...
...hard to believe that a woman facing prison time still cares about crafting belts out of festive grosgrain ribbon. But the namesake company of lifestyle maven MARTHA STEWART hopes you do. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia struck a deal with the Style Network to continue airing Martha Stewart Living, which many stations dropped after Stewart's conviction on four felony counts in March. Style will air mainly reruns from 11 seasons of Living, but the network has ordered four new specials about weddings, which the Martha Stewart Weddings magazine staff will help produce. A company spokeswoman says the Style deal...
...romance with the fabric is a weapon in his war against what he calls "the diktats of fashion," whereby certain garments and accessories can be worn only in particular settings -- silk for splendor, denim for fun. In his designs for Chanel, the maestro is mixing up materials -- tweed, denim, grosgrain -- with such sleight of hand that some of his efforts look more formal than his variations on the house's classic...
...high? Tie a piece of black silk under your Adam's apple. (Clip-ons are permissible -- if not entirely excusable -- only for maitre d's at restaurants that revolve atop the city's tallest building.) Want to -- be honest, now -- leave the party with some new company? Go in grosgrain...