Word: manhattanization
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...dark secret that none of the campus recruiters or the Office of Career Services staff will tell you, but if you want to be a titan of the business world one day, you certainly don't need to spend your early twenties locked on the 38th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper, running spreadsheets for 14 hours a day. Business, at its core, is a creative enterprise--so why not exercise a little creativity in finding your first job in the business world...
...they even have a number of supporters' clubs in the U.S. It's a brand that's recognized around the world, and with soccer growing quickly in the U.S., it may also be the most recognizable soccer brand here - particularly in New York. Go to any sports bar in Manhattan at 10 a.m. on a Saturday, and it'll be packed with Manchester United supporters wearing the team's colors and watching live broadcasts from the British Premier Division...
...stretch flares to girls ages 7 and up. "Girls' clothes started getting sexier about two years ago," says Jaime Williams, a manager at a branch outside Chicago. "Basically, everybody wants to be a princess. Not like the ones in fairy tales, but a hot princess like Britney." In Manhattan, designer boutiques like Betwixt and Infinity sell adult labels at adult prices in Alice-in-Wonderland sizes. A pair of Diesel jeans at Betwixt costs $70, and a pony-hair dress at Infinity costs $205. "Age-appropriate behavior is something we've lost sense of," says Joan Jacobs Brumberg, the author...
...station and then had her nails done in different colors. "I don't usually get to wear makeup," she enthused. "It's like against the rules. But here it's a party, so it's O.K." The caterer, Cozy Wolan, who owns a hair-cutting salon for kids in Manhattan, says demand for her parties is growing. Especially since she began offering a new attraction: a choreographer who teaches the kids Britney's dance moves...
...effect is very subtle," says makeup artist Laura Mercier, who spruced up Sarah Jessica Parker for the Golden Globe Awards. "It's not like putting on a strip of fake eyelashes the way people did in the '70s." Celebrities such as Naomi Campbell and Molly Shannon are flocking to Manhattan's J. Sisters International, where a 45-minute procedure--which the salon says is imported from the beach glamour of Brazil--costs $55. Demand for the treatment has jumped from a handful of extensions a week...