Word: starck
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...singles who openly pop the tabs in trendy night spots. At the Oscars, Hugh Grant was captured on camera placing one into Sandra Bullock's mouth. Handbag designer Kate Spade and celebrity makeup artist Bobbi Brown have their own lines of breath mints, and toothbrushes by designers like Philippe Starck are leaping off the shelves. Experts attribute the craze for freshness to the fact that Americans are eating spicier foods. To those who aren't with the program, California Breath Clinics, which treat halitosis, will send a gentle e-mail from an anonymous complainer, letting the offenders know that their...
...TARGET Philippe Starck, who has been on a crusade to keep design cheap, created several baby items for Target that will hit the store in late May. The toilet trainer-potty step stool is $17 and the toy car is $30. Also available: a wearable baby monitor for moms and a sippy cup that looks like a wine goblet...
...Mays, the 48 year old (CHK) Oklahoman who has been in charge of car design at Ford since 1997. This is mainly a school of architecture, and they've been trying to get away from the stodgy Harvard image for years (previous award winners include product wiz Phillipe Starck and conceptual artist and theatre designer extraordinaire Robert Wilson). Mays is a guy whose world is actively about more than cars. Call him the auto industry equivalent of a cross-dresser, because he's a serious advocate of good fashion, product design and architecture, and doesn't mind dissing...
...large. I wanted to be a fashion and style columnist, although goodness knows how that would’ve ended up. (Ah well, here’s my two cents’ worth—Botega Veneta: Cool but a bit too early-2001? Prague: So 1990s. My Philippe Starck lemon juicer: Eternal.) I guess I could’ve been a sports columnist, although knowledge of English soccer and Formula One racing probably wouldn’t cut it in a college newspaper. I even wanted to discuss punctuation and other matters of style, á là Fowler...
Cheap is O.K. by Starck, whose cheerful whimsy with juicers, bottle openers and hotel rooms did much to spark America's current fling with design. He says he wants good design to be a commodity--but without being wasteful. He points out that every time he designs a chair, it's less expensive than the one he designed before. "I want everybody to have the best products for the price of any bulls___ in the grocery store," he says...