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...burlap, they feast on authenticity, while their Boston sisters simply eat because Olé was named “Best of Boston” about 800 times by Boston Magazine. For the latter, the magazine’s picks rate about as highly as a Zagat four-star. Anyway, Prada and tragically hip in the “I’m-wearing-ethnic-clothing-because-it-makes-a-fashion-statement” sense reigns in a restaurant that doesn’t struggle hard to maintain a Mexican patina. Aztec and Toltec and Mixtec objets...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...seems inconceivable that there was a time when Prada and Gucci were considered dull, cheesy or both, but with some effort, it's possible to recall a world in which the distinctive tan-red-white-and-black plaid of Burberry was thought to be appropriate only for the lining of Granddad's raincoat. It was three years ago, to be precise--before Burberry underwent radical image surgery and made a plaid raid on everything from bikinis to bags to little doggy coats and on everyone from Kate Moss to the wife of the British Prime Minister. Now such sensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Ball: Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...also attended the Fashion Institute of Technology.) He and his thirtysomething former Harvard roommate, Abel Halpern, who is a managing director at Texas Pacific, have added all the right ingredients: a minimalist new store in Berlin and one on its way in Los Angeles (appositely opposite Gucci and Prada, which started this whole thing), editorial wooing and an edgy ad campaign. Oh, yes, and clothes. The Milan runway show in March drew accolades. Don't be surprised if your teenager starts haranguing you to go to "the Bally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Ball: Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...seems inconceivable that there was a time when Prada and Gucci were considered dull, cheesy or both, but with some effort, it's possible to recall a world in which the distinctive tan-red-white-and-black plaid of Burberry was thought to be appropriate only for the lining of Granddad's raincoat. It was three years ago, to be precise-before Burberry underwent radical image surgery and made a plaid raid on everything from bikinis to bags to little doggy coats and on everyone from Kate Moss to the wife of the British Prime Minister. Now such sensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

...also attended the Fashion Institute of Technology.) He and his thirtysomething former Harvard roommate, Abel Halpern, who is a managing director at Texas Pacific, have added all the right ingredients: a minimalist new store in Berlin and one on its way in Los Angeles (appositely opposite Gucci and Prada, which started this whole thing), editorial wooing and an edgy ad campaign. Oh, yes, and clothes. The Milan runway show in March drew accolades. Don't be surprised if your teenager starts haranguing you to go to "the Bally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

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