Word: sleeked
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...variety of stories that go from cute to existential, editor and designer Chris Pitzer has put together one of the best-looking and best reading anthologies of the year. Printed in black and white and silver, the aesthetics of "Project: Telstar" ingeniously tie the stories together with a cool, sleek look...
MISS MATCH (NBC). Kate Fox (Alicia Silverstone) is a Los Angeles divorce lawyer and part-time matchmaker who strikes just the right pose: think Ally McBeal with a longer hemline. To make Kate look like she could "kick ass in the courtroom," costume designer Karen Wagner spruced up the sleek business suits. Fashion forecast: just in time for Jil Sander's return...
...that separates heaven from hell. For decades, Japan's fashion designers have treated the thin glass of their storefront windows as an equally inviolate divider, cleaving the cool, exclusionary aesthetic of their boutiques from the rowdy street fashion of the teens preening outside. But enter Naoki Takizawa's sleek, stark space in Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi Hills neighborhood and the soaring glass wall seems less a barrier than an instrument for osmosis. Among his latest designs for haute-couture label Issey Miyake?fanciful blouses and blazers inspired by the flourishes of baroque furniture?mingle a more prosaic product: Takizawa...
...type of charter lets clients fly on a sleek private jet without having to buy one--or having to buy into a so-called fractional-ownership program. These services do, however, make customers prepay for blocks of flight time. Among the biggest carriers of this type are Delta AirElite Business Jets, a wholly owned Delta subsidiary based in Cincinnati, Ohio; Marquis Jet Partners of New York City; Sentient Private Jet Membership of Norwell, Mass.; and Bombardier Skyjet, based in Fairfax, Va. Through Delta's AirElite service, which launched in February, customers pay a minimum...
...picks up his cell phone and jokingly plays the part of a low-life genie: "A Russian hooker who looks like Pamela Anderson? Ecstasy? A bottle of Black Label? An AK-47, or a 40-carat diamond? It's all here?just a phone call away." In his sleek, black outfits and his silver bracelets, Amin is a familiar figure at Karachi's private parties and rave clubs, which never advertise or display signs and are set back from the street in high-walled compounds beyond the hearing of mullahs or cops looking to shake down a few rich kids...