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Terrasson, 29, comes to the game with a well-formed sound that relies on inventiveness and vision rather than pure razzle-dazzle. Equipped with a degree in classical piano from the Parisian conservatory Lycee Lamartine, which he topped off with a year of jazz studies at Boston's rigorous Berklee College of Music, Terrasson mixes a thorough knowledge of the jazz canon--from Cole Porter to Duke Ellington to Miles Davis--with a rich harmonic sense and a carefully reined iconoclasm. On his debut album, Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note), he squeezes fresh insight and nuance out of fossilized tunes like...
...billion from five years ago. The $8.4 billion on lawns, the $3.1 billion on flowers are just the beginning. The Victorian watering cart from Smith & Hawken costs $1,500. Tiffany offers a full-size sterling-silver shovel for $9,500. Boutiques bristle with garden furniture, fountains, gargoyles, gazebos, antique Parisian paving stones and authentic-looking archaeological debris. Finally, like sailing and skiing and polo, gardening now offers the wardrobe that reeks of pedigree, clothes far too expensive to roll in the dirt, gloves so elegant they could be worn to church...
...days later, Jean Colonna, the brash boy of grunge Parisian avant-grade, presented his fall collection of women's and men's clothing at the Institute of Contemporary Art. The event was a fundraiser for the Institute, the ideal location to the introduce Colonna's hybrid clothing. Both the women's and men's wear combined tight-fitting polyesters, black and silver leathers and a transparent, paper-like material. The models came swaggering down the runways in provocative, fluid movements, some dancing exotically to the grinding heavy metal. The whole event was very "in your face" with the women wearing...
...celebrities. Many observers argue that supermodels have topped movie stars on the fame hierarchy because they possess an ethereal allure missing since the '40s and '50s. "I couldn't ever picture Joan Crawford going to the supermarket to buy soap," notes Pauline Bernatchez, who runs the 24-year-old Parisian modeling agency Pauline's, "but I could easily envision Meryl Streep doing it with her children. Models seem more untouchable. People need glamour; they need to dream." Says designer Isaac Mizrahi: "When my mother was a little girl, she wanted to grow up and be Rita Hayworth or a ballerina...
...intermission takes us from the Florentinepeasantry to the Parisian demi-monde, fromthirteenth-century buffa to nineteenth-centuryjoie de vivre...