Word: stylishness
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Americans never seem to lose faith in the possibility of self-reinvention. This fall, three new books offer inspiration and advice on how to become--or at least dream about becoming--one's most stylish self. Metamorphosis (Abrams; 192 pages) catalogs hair stylist Serge Normant's transformations of ubermodels, actresses and pop starlets into goddesses, geishas and queens for the pages of fashion magazines. For self-helpers without access to a team of stylists, there's The Fashionista Files (Ballantine Books; 339 pages). This primer provides would-be style mavens with sample-sale survival skills, tips on befriending shopkeepers...
ATLANTA Kate Spade's Vienna Travis in dark pink leather (small, $395) appeals to the Southern belle who likes her fashion stylish but not trendy...
Until recently, children's furnishings were found mostly in superstores such as Babies "R" Us. But a new crop of craftspeople and retailers are joining the $9 billion kids'-home-furnishings market by appealing to finicky parents who want more stylish options than Disney characters and are willing to pay big bucks for them. Online retailer PoshTots offers artisanal furniture like a Cinderella pumpkin-coach bed that sells for more than $40,000. Built to order by British furniture designer Mark Wilkinson, only three are in existence...
...controversial reforms, especially a new law that will cut long-term unemployment benefits next year. "We have made clear that we want to change things in the interest of ordinary people," he says. The party's popularity has grown so much that in Bisky's Brandenburg, where the stylish Dagmar Enkelmann is the leading PDS candidate, it is expected to win more seats than any other party. More than two-thirds of PDS members are over 60, filled with nostalgia for the old East German regime. In fact, a worrisome "ostalgia" infects both east and west. According...
...Indeed, throughout her career, there's been criticism that Nair, despite her gift for lush and stylish spectacles, crams too much onto the screen and tends to lack depth. She claims not to care: "My feeling is that I do what I do, then I offer it to the world. I hope people will be affected by it, watch it and are impressed. I aim to put bums on seats. But that's not to say that I'm confident or unconfident. I don't think about the fruits of my actions. I just do the work...