Word: ikea
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...have one European sofa, designed by the good Swedes at Ikea, swathed in the finest green cotton. Added bonus: Both armrests are adorned with charming cat-scratch marks...
Picture a much younger Martha Stewart with a Scottish accent, marketed to the Ikea demographic, and you have McKevitt. Through her home-design TV shows, books and branded lines of bedding, paint and tiles, McKevitt, 33, has styled herself Britain's premier living brand. In September the former hairdresser's assistant who left home at 15 will tackle the U.S. market through home-shopping shows, catalogs and the Internet...
...Assassin). Feng makes the light-hearted comedies that draw the big Chinese crowds. Unlike Zhang and Chen, Feng eschews sweeping epic dramas with brocaded courtesans or peasants tilling unforgiving earth, preferring to tell tales of China's glorious, go-go present. His characters are tour guides and Ikea-shopping yuppies. They don't struggle with injustice or political strife, but have trouble with relationships and flatulence. "I want my films to reflect the real China," says the 43-year-old director. "Western audiences may expect an old, exotic China, but this is how my country really...
...think about it, anybody who wants to be famous has to be fundamentally messed up. To crave attention, adulation, adoration from the whole wide world means that you aren’t content being happy in your own little corner of the world; a white picket fence, SUV and IKEA furniture in a suburban loft just don’t cut it unless your presence is known, unless you’re a star. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Life wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining if we didn’t have...
...younger girls who hanker to pair up with a bad boy for a night. Instead, rich urban wives want the kind of guy they envision for their daughters: well-mannered, well-groomed, well-heeled. By day Zhang sells real estate, and his Beijing apartment is filled with pale blond Ikea furniture. He doesn't need the money, really, but he's longing for a new Zegna suit, and his latest patron - the 48-year-old wife of a property magnate - has promised him a spring shopping spree. "We're good for each other," he insists. "I give her confidence about...