Word: swank
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...EIGHT YEARS, ROBERT RICH HAS WORKED from the basement of the Marc Jacobs store in New York City. His tiny office is plastered with photographs and magazine clippings of famous clients?Sofia Coppola, Hilary Swank, Winona Ryder. Amid the beautiful clutter, the only discernible piece of furniture is a white leather sofa that looks a lot like a couch you would find in a shrink's office?which is fitting, since Rich is a therapist of sorts. His official title at Marc Jacobs is director of public relations for stores?he decides what to buy for the label...
Rich is unfailingly discreet when it comes to which outfits he has curated for his clients. He takes credit for the white sundress Swank wore in 2001 when she rode her bicycle to the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. ("I sent it to her because she needed something beachy," he explains...
...Hilary Swank got frank. ?I?m not single. We?re trying to work our marriage out,? said the actress, who showed up to present an award, of her recent separation from husband Chad Lowe. We guess Million Dollar Baby really prepared her to take a blow with dignity...
Take the feature on Baruch Shemtov ’09, a tie designer, who the magazine interviews in New York at “The Carlyle...a swank upper-east side establishment.” Author Danielle Sassoon ’08 is particularly impressed that “Baruch” (as he is endearingly referred to on second reference) has an in with the maitre d’—a term whose only accepted variant differs in its inclusion of a cirumflex above the “i.” Except that in the article...
...Blake Stone ’06 House: Cabot Concentration: Government Style Idol: Andre 3000 meets Patrick Bateman My style in three words: Unstudied rock swank. My style in one sentence: It’s like sex; it’s nice to know that other people enjoy what I’m doing but, in the end, I’m just doing it for myself. In 15 minutes I am wearing: A raincoat. In 15 years I am wearing: A nicer raincoat...