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...compliment such wardrobes, grooming—once the exclusive domain of women donning powders and lipstick—is working its way into masculine routines. Gino Ruotolo has been primping Square residents in his small Holyoke street salon, Gino’s, for 28 years. “When I first started out, I’d say that about two percent of our customers were male, but we’ve seen a real transformation in the past seven or eight years. Now I’d say we have about 25- 28 percent,” he says...
...accession will drive prices way up. Panic buying and hoarding started with salt and sugar in the Baltics; Poland followed with sugar, construction materials and cars. In the Czech Republic, it has been sugar, rice and, of all things, haircuts, with people pre-paying their trips to the salon. What's behind the hysteria? E.U. accession will bring about changes in taxation, tariffs and price support. This means that the price of dairy products in Poland, for example, could rise 10-30% and that an $11 haircut in the Czech Republic will cost $12.50 due to higher vat. Anticipating...
...does the claim that Clarke is partisan satisfy. He voted for Republican Senator John McCain in the 2000 presidential primary, he told Salon. He promised the 9/11 commission he would not take a job with a John Kerry administration, if there is one. "He is very smart. He is abrasively aggressive, and he is wholly self-centered," says a senior Republican who has worked with Clarke. But, he adds, "he is not partisan...
...were invited to walk through the archives to examine collections past. Behind the heavy rolling doors were seemingly endless racks of chiffon dresses, beaded jackets and floor-length feathered coats, many of which are indelibly etched on the minds of fashion mavens. Downstairs, in what was once the couture salon, an exhibit entitled "Dialogue with Art" highlighted some of Saint Laurent's iconic silhouettes: the Mondrian dresses, the Picasso homage of intricately beaded capes splashed with Cubist images, the Pop Art dresses indebted to Andy Warhol. In his heyday Saint Laurent was inspired by artists as much...
Sykes heralds Caroline Bessette Kennedy as the prototypical Bergdorf blonde. The late Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., had her white-blonde touch ups at Bergdorf’s Parvene salon every thirteen days at $450 per highlight. To Sykes this ritual was extraordinary, but neither compulsive nor neurotic. “It’s part of being, like, the ultimate New York girl,” Sykes wrote in her proposal for the novel...