Word: revamped
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...fumes: the Tata Group's hotel chain took on the great landmark's preservation. The company has previously converted former palaces into functioning hotels, and promises to bring in international experts from the Getty Foundation, the Smithsonian and UNESCO among others, to help restore damaged engravings and stones and revamp the lighting system. In a move that could spell an end to the bedlam around the entrance gates, Tata also plans a tourist center that will offer interpreters, computerized ticketing, banking, a fleet of shuttle buses, a cafE and washrooms. An army of 20,000 men took 22 years...
...date ("elegant!"), out of touch ("timeless!"), or dowdy ("refined!"). This discrepancy was blatantly apparent at the recent haute couture shows in Paris. The big show of the season should have been Givenchy's. It was 28-year-old Welshman Julien Macdonald's turn to try to revamp the legendary house after enfant terrible Alexander McQueen quit to build his own brand with Gucci Group. Macdonald, who once designed knitwear for McQueen, played it safe. Very safe. Macdonald makes dull Paris debut, said London's Independent. The collection was lovely, but not ground-breaking. It looked like a job application...
Dunhill, or as it is known since the revamp, Dunhill' (apparently punctuation is key--Burberry used to be Burberry's) was the definition of a brand that had lost its libido. Most people associated the name with smoking, although it divorced the tobacco business 10 years ago. After its parent, Swiss luxury-goods company Richemont, appointed Guy Leymarie to take over the reins, Leymarie hired a designer from Hermes to do the menswear collections and a couple of smart young architects to do a new store. Leymarie also came up with a tag line...
...Dunhill, or as it is known since the revamp, Dunhill' (apparently punctuation is key-Burberry used to be Burberry's) was the definition of a brand that had lost its libido. Most people associated the name with smoking, although it divorced the tobacco business 10 years ago. After its parent, Swiss luxury-goods company Richemont, appointed Guy Leymarie to take over the reins, Leymarie hired a designer from Herm?s to do the menswear collections and a couple of smart young architects to do a new store. Leymarie also came up with a tag line...
...Still, President Bush appears to have managed to get European leaders to begin acknowledging a need to revamp the international strategic architecture - the question is to what extent the emphasis in responding to new strategic challenges should be on expensive defensive missiles, and to what extent it should be on new multilateral agreements to control the proliferation of offensive missiles. Obviously many of the Europeans are going to put a lot more emphasis on the latter...