Word: manhattanization
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...suits. "Gold is becoming everyone's favorite earth tone," says John Loring, design director of Tiffany. "The warmth always looks good on your skin." Beyond fashion, the precious stuff is turning up in decadent housewares like Gucci's gold-plated cat-food dish and on sweets like those at Manhattan chocolatier MarieBelle. Even the iPod has upgraded to gold.--By Melia Marden
...actually had a shoe closet built in my apartment in Manhattan. The whole bedroom was designed around [it]. It's backlighted so they're presented almost like art; they're color coordinated; and they're behind smoke-glass doors...
...novel centers on Rosalie Preston, herself a twenty-six year old Harvard alum, who lives in Manhattan and works as an advice columnist at a teen magazine called GirlTalk. Rosalie’s real passion, though, is acting. And while she enjoys advising young teens on the tribulations of their first menstrual cycles, the cutthroat world of theater in New York City demands most of her energy...
Delbanco’s characters are detailed, familiar figures. Bella Starker, the troupe’s producer, is a rich Manhattan socialite whose Gramercy Park brownstone is “decked out like a James Bond stronghold.” The incest of the First Borns is evident with Jake and Grace, two friends who are already scandalously inseparable at the book’s onset. Then there is peppy and fresh-faced Cam, Rosalie’s friend for years, whose relationship she describes as “old pals with conveniently complementary body parts...
Skin Science Medi Spa, on Manhattan's East Side, is very regal in its appearance, with Victorian-era chairs, heavy velvet curtains and gold fixtures. Mirrors in gold frames and anti-aging skin-care products in gold-etched blue bottles create a promising ambiance of magic. Dr. Adrienne Denese, a cosmetic dermatologist, who opened the medi-spa five years ago, completes the picture with her long blond tresses and translucent pale skin...