Word: stylishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...should the Beamer, from newcomer Vialta in Fremont, Calif., fare any better? For starters, it has a stylish design that looks more like a picture frame than another high-tech gizmo. What's more, it plugs directly into a regular phone line and requires no computer hookup. And at $500 for a pair (both parties need one so they can see each other), it comes at a pretty fair price...
...least as we know it, is on the way out. New types of fuel and construction materials are on the horizon, and the look and feel of autos are on the brink of a radical redesign. Driving promises to become more environmentally friendly, stylish and fun. We may not be whizzing around in flying cars like the Jetsons or speeding vertically toward the sky on magnetic tracks as in Minority Report, but we will definitely be traveling in ways previously unimagined...
Gourmet dining is the newest trend in Europe's luxury department stores, and the menus are as cutting-edge as the fashions around them. Though designers like Armani, Courrèges, Ventillo, Lanvin, Barbara Bui and Nicole Farhi realized years ago that the chicest store accessory is a stylish café bearing your label, major retailers are just now choosing to create and run their own restaurants rather than depending on outside concessionaires. "It is a completely new era for restaurants and retail," says Jean Paul Barat, general manager of food operations at Selfridges. "Food is now a driving force...
...recently opened The Top Floor, a sleek, fully licensed café with seating for 270 and an espresso bar overlooking Belgravia. Joe Teixeira, head of catering, says the new venue caters not just to the ladies who lunch and their offspring, but a whole new market. "We get the stylish shopper eating here too," says Teixeira, adding that a second restaurant with a café-society theme opens next year. "The store is modernizing its retail and it made good business sense to do the same with the food." In March Harrods replaced Wok Wok - one of only three concessions...
...like to bathe in public. This inclination has thus far failed to attract much attention because I live in Japan. Here, hot-springs hopping is a national obsession enjoyed by wrinkled elders and stylish college girls alike. Foreign visitors often resist getting naked with strangers, but the transpacific flight alone ought to convince you. What better way to ease your aching joints than with a good long soak...