Word: velvetized
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...iTunes, this year’s hot digital music application, is shuffling aimlessly through 9126 songs on one of the computers in Zittrain’s office. Beck and the Velvet Underground, perhaps not every Ivy League professor’s artists of choice, play quietly in the background...
DIED. JOHN STEPHEN, 69, Glasgow-born clothing designer known as "the King of Carnaby Street" in Swinging '60s London; in London. His hip-hugging pants and velvet jackets challenged the postwar uniform of white shirts and gray flannel suits and became the threads of choice for the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who. Stephen--a classic dresser himself--opened his first Carnaby Street shop, at No. 5, in 1957, and by the mid-'60s, his mod designs were being sold across...
...farewell Gucci collection, Tom Ford spiffed up the international playboy look with loafers, ascots and a new "twinset"--a V-neck sweater worn over a turtleneck. Valentino featured Argyle sweaters worn with debonair velvet trousers. Accessories for the after-5 gin-and-tonic set include pocket squares, cuff links and tie bars. And don't leave home without a classic blazer, acceptable dress code at any country club...
Skin Science Medi Spa, on Manhattan's East Side, is very regal in its appearance, with Victorian-era chairs, heavy velvet curtains and gold fixtures. Mirrors in gold frames and anti-aging skin-care products in gold-etched blue bottles create a promising ambiance of magic. Dr. Adrienne Denese, a cosmetic dermatologist, who opened the medi-spa five years ago, completes the picture with her long blond tresses and translucent pale skin...
...tasteful interior, created by Yale-educated Taiwan architect and proprietor Leslie Chen, is an eye-pleasing mix of sharp lines and warm velvet. Chen herself is a fixture most afternoons and evenings: you'll find her perched on the same barstool and invariably tapping away at a laptop, perhaps creating a new menu, or organizing another poetry jam, cheap Belgian-beer night, free movie screening in the basement cinema or appearances by guest speakers in the fields of design, interiors, graphics and publishing...