Word: tweeds
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...Norsa, the man in charge of the group's fashion brands. At Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld dropped the rock'n'roll of his last ready-to-wear show and instead invited intimate groups of 140 to two viewings in Coco Chanel's original showroom. The clothes - studies in contrasts with tweed jackets over tulle skirts - harked back to those elegance-first days. Sandwiched between the classic old guard and flashy new are the middle-aged guard, who first made their mark in the 1980s. Christian Lacroix, recently named designer of the Pucci label, showed a collection brimming with confidence. Feathers, sequins...
Young was one of the most well-known figures on campus until his retirement in 1998, a fixture in the Yard usually seen with his aging tweed overcoat and dog Tizzy...
Amidst all this hoopla, those who care about reducing incidents of assault on this campus and getting justice for those who are attacked should be rejoicing. Gone are the days when the collection of sweet but slightly dazed, tweed-clad academics played cop with the most difficult assault cases...
...online chat room devoted to her. Yuichi befriends a pianist named Yoko (Ayumi Ito) and she becomes his real-life Lily. But at bully Hoshino's command, Yoko is raped by a gang of the boys. She strips herself of femininity by shaving her head and wearing a coarse tweed cap to school, and Yuichi invests himself ever more deeply in the Lily website. "Like an endless loop I keep on falling. I hate everyone, but I like it here," he writes. "It's a place to belong...
Hanging here are images of Coney Island before weeds turned it seedy, a Canal Street parade of Chinatown butchers holding slaughtered pigs, old men in tweed caps playing bocce in Corona, runners rejoicing past the marathon’s finish line and an ‘I love NY’ plastic bag in an orange wire-mesh garbage can. Here, too, are family snapshots: babies in Brooklyn, Central Park picnickers, mother and son trick-or-treaters, weddings, birthdays and the like...