Word: velour
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...walls bear snapshots of movie stars visiting the place, among them Johnny Depp (Donnie Brasco), Hugh Grant (Mickey Blue Eyes) and James Caan (The Godfather). At a round table sit five men--sturdy, with slick hair and crumpled suits--having a good rude time as two other men in velour sweatsuits, drivers or bodyguards probably, sit at a subsidiary table. They turn quiet and suspicious when a new couple, strangers, is seated across the room, then return to their powwow. On the ceiling above the men are two metal boxes with rubber knobs--devices believed to have been installed...
...housewives all across America. And with the simple invocation to "feel like a woman, wear a dress," Diane von Furstenberg sent 300,000 women rushing to stores in the 1970s. More recently, Gela Taylor and Pam Skaist-Levy found the Holy Grail of comfort and sex appeal in a velour sweat suit they called Juicy Couture...
...Velour has never looked so good. Uber-designer Hayley B. Barna ’05 adds a little style to dreary FM production nights in her fab Juicy sweats and funky sneakers. Lucky for us, Hayley loves FM so much that she never leaves The Crimson. Well, maybe. She loves us enough that she doesn’t bitch when we give her stories three days late. Quirky and energetic, Hayley is much more than a designer. This superstar creates beautiful pages with the greatest of ease but is also always up for a game of Boggle, a screening...
...carefully crafted images--Oprah, Martha Stewart, Madonna, Sean (P. Diddy) Combs and Russell Simmons, plus product-endorsing athletes such as Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan--celebrity designers capitalize on the fact that popular approval equals influence, whether it's a book-club recommendation, a pistachio-colored pillowcase or a velour tracksuit...
...alpha-dog celebrities stay ahead of middle-class consumers, often by mimicking inner-city teenagers and other transgressive subcultures. Madonna's bold use of classic Adidas roused a posse of A-list imitators ranging from Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz to Pink. J. Lo made the pastel Juicy Couture velour sweat suit a must-have item, then started producing...