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...preening and pampering rituals of middle school slumber parties live on at Beauty & Main. The store offers makeovers and skin consultations for parties of six to eight in an elegantly simple—if heavily perfumed—setting laden with high-end makeup products. A squad of makeup artists at your disposal, complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres and skin care freebies for everyone to take home: does it get any better...
...what Armani Café aspires to be. With its jet-set clientele, notoriously frosty service and prime location on Newbury, little wonder it’s earned a reputation as one of Boston’s see-and-be-seen hotspots du jour. The menu’s high-end, Northern Italian-inspired specialties exhibit genuine flavor and flair—albeit in small portions. The scene—uptown New York lounge with a clean Italian edge—lives up to the Café’s claim of “chic yet casual...
...Fleurie and a hearty meal at Le Verre Volé, an artisanal wine bar near Paris' Canal St. Martin. He claims there are no villains in his piece, but audiences might come to a different conclusion after watching Nossiter's interviews with figures representing those very forces of homogenization. High-end vintners from France to California hire Michel Rolland, a supremely confident consultant from Pomerol in the Bordeaux region, to upgrade their production. His lab can reduce a blackberry bouquet into its precise chemical constituents, and then tell the paying customer how to put them into his own vintage. After...
...enough of whiskers, bleaching and streaks? Not in your beauty regimen, but in your designer jeans. A notable trend in the booming high-end denim business is taking Hollywood by storm: cleaned-up blue jeans. Fins Denim, a new Chicago-based company that has captured the loyalty of Gwyneth Paltrow, right, among others, promises a slim cut with none of the thong-revealing problems of other low-rise looks. Another plus: the jeans have just enough stretch in all the right places...
...High-end designers are chasing the booming children's-wear and children's-furniture markets with ever more stylish fare. Already companies like Bottega Veneta, Tod's and D&G have been creating apparel and leather goods for tots, and J. Crew is entering the field with tiny Argyle cardigans. In response to increasing demand for baby furniture that "flows with the rest of the house," the home-furnishings website Nurseryworks has commissioned midcentury modern--style cribs, above, changing tables and rocking chairs from California-based designers Glenn Lawson and Grant Fenning of Lawson-Fenning, as well as graphic bedding...