Word: stylist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...popular body-hugging jersey dresses with rippling hems of uneven length. A native of Newark, Burrows attended the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, then took a job decorating department store windows. Switching to Manhattan's avant-garde O Boutique, he began designing and was soon hired as house stylist for Henri Bendel, an exclusive store on 57th Street. Burrows says his clothes "make both the wearer and the viewer aware of the body and its potential." This year that means "lots of sweaters and little skirts and cardigan jackets. They're all very clean and simple...
...first James still represents the official stereotype. Here is the high priest of art who refined himself right out of life, the superfastidious intellect whom Theodore Roosevelt called an "effete" and "miserable little snob," the too-exquisite stylist whom H.G. Wells described as a "leviathan retrieving pebbles." Edel's formidable accomplishment has been to unveil the second James in all his surprising robustness and to give this figure equal space on the wall...
After Cole finished styling Ellis's hair, Sassoon took time to tell stories of his early days as an apprentice hair stylist in London when he performed his art in the middle of air raids...
...should the reader of this book. Only Amis' talent as a storyteller and stylist keeps Girl, 20 from settling into the pettiest smugness. But then, an Amis novel has always been like a naughty jaunt on a thinly iced pond. Too much moral or critical weight concentrated in any one place means breaking through to the shallows beneath the surface...
...kind of phrases he lampoons in a piece on reviewers' jargon, Baker is a man of range, sensitive intellect and fertile imagination. He is also a fine stylist whose columns frequently unfurl to defend the language against corruption. But to read 212 pages of him at a sitting is a mistake. He is most effective in his newspaper, where the reader can wade expectantly toward him through bloated accounts of disaster, inhumanity, avarice and hypocrisy. Russell Baker can then best be appreciated doing what a good humorist has always done: writing to preserve his sanity for at least...