Word: neon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...slogan "When your own initials are enough," confirmed expectations that it would be Gucci Group's next successful turnaround. When Gucci bought the company in February 2001, the designers were two British consultants whose attempts to revive the label included products like black catsuits with "BV" in neon lettering. Tom Ford, Gucci's creative director, hired Maier away from Herm?s and charged him with creating a luxury line. Maier quickly put out a capsule collection of classic Bottega accessories, including woven bags and wallets, and the catsuits were never seen again. "People don't realize what has been accomplished...
...Miami, circa 1986, and it evokes the place and the period with the skill of a Scorsese: it's a steaming Cuban sandwich of sultry Latin sirens, drug deals gone bad and seedy mobsters with big metal briefcases full of small unmarked bills. The city streets are awash with neon in candy pink and pistachio green, and each streetlight is ringed by a delicate nimbus suggesting warm, humid tropical air. The kicker is the painfully authentic all-1980s sound track (which will be released by Sony Music as a seven-CD set). Buy this game, and you will Wang Chung...
...participants sat around a coffee table on leather chairs, reading off a neon orange posterboard with the categories and points taped onto them. Categories included the suggestive “F-Words,” as well as gay life-themed “Trans Trivia” and the more traditional “Geography...
...among the endless supermarkets, party stores and gas stations, a malicious hunter--or hunters--has taken position in the natural habitat of contemporary Americans. And incredibly, each time, despite busy, well-lighted streets, no one noticed the shooter. As it turns out, the suburbs, with a camouflage of hedgerows, neon signs and anonymous traffic, make a better shooting gallery than a dark alley...
...different sort: zealous bikers, skaters and joggers compete with more placid lovers and retirees for room on the new pedestrian thoroughfare. A tree-planting campaign is in full swing along the Han?after three years and 15 million new trees, the city's once crushing expanses of concrete and neon are now awash with the pale green of ginkgoes, chosen in part for their golden autumnal livery...