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Anything seems to go in design today: styles clash, boundaries blur and hipper-than-thou types talk of "hybridity." And few practitioners better reflect the pick-and-mix trend than Barcelona-based product designer[an error occurred while processing this directive] Jaime Hayón. The 32-year-old Spaniard has a taste for the theatrical, so calling the latest overview of his work (at the Aram Gallery in London until Nov. 4) "Stage" is entirely appropriate. Playfulness is a hallmark, too. Having won a cult following in 2004 for his zany yet unsettling space-invader figurines - which were...
...Enter Shortz, nearly 40 years younger than Maleska, and eager to revive the Times' most carefully studied page. A John XXIII to Maleska's Pius XII, Shortz embraced the modern: slang, hipper pop references, more devious wordsmanship. He also instituted a sliding scale of difficulty for the puzzle week: the easiest one on Monday and Tuesday, the most challenging on Friday and Saturday...
...Paris street revolts.) In its early days Cannes and Venice were the only major film festivals; now every town larger than Podunk has a yearly movie bash. (Note to editor: Please check to make sure Podunk doesn't have a film festival.) Berlin may be more serious, Amsterdam hipper, Sundance more focused, Toronto more congenial. But Cannes, with its 40,000 visitors from around the world, remains the gold standard for movie conclaves...
Like many other Americans, Siegel remembered a time when the ubiquitous French amphibian adorned the chests of the country-club set. Now, by developing hipper clothes and raising quality, he launched a Stateside comeback for a brand that was considered to be dead in the Atlantic. "To head Lacoste was a dream come true," Siegel says. "The brand is so powerful because of its heritage...
Dressed in baggy jeans and a tattered sweatshirt, he looked humble and vaguely more ordinary than I had imagined. M83’s music is so imposing, so uniquely electro-emo, that I must have expected something hipper. When Gonzalez smiled, his mouth curled quickly around his nose and he crossed his arms...