Word: velvets
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...last nights in New York, I went to Marquee to hear DJ AM (Nicole Ritchie’s fiancé) spin with a couple of friends. When we arrived, I talked the talk, received a comp admission, and the velvet rope parted. Once inside, I, like the other anonymous twenty-somethings, drank a Vodka Redbull and danced on the plush red banquettes...
...between O Tamaiti and Still Life, the serious filmmaker let down her hair in Velvet Dreams (1997), a playful documentary about the mid-20th century school of white painters who rendered dusky Pacific maidens on black velvet. Splicing interviews with anthropologists, art critics and a memorable Reverend Mua, who "rarely gets to meet topless women in his line of work," over a soundtrack of Hawaiian slide guitar and a fictional detective narrator, Urale wittily debunks the myth of flower-behind-the-ear Polynesian womanhood. Yet through her lens, she can see both sides of the beach. "The really neat thing...
...take their chocolate hit--and run . Gina Sodergren, 27, likes to stop in for a prework brew at the Leonidas Chocolate Café in Santa Monica, one of two opened in the Los Angeles area in the past year by the Belgian chocolate company. "They have stuff like Orange Velvet and Peppermint Delight and Mexican Cocoa," she says, "drinks you can't find anywhere else...
...carpet itself was a shocking eddy of bejeweled humanity. Although the athletes and famous guests are separated from regular ticket-holders by a velvet rope, there wasn’t much preventing me from trying to sack Peyton Manning if I wanted to. Or if I thought I could bring him down...
...that he and his business partner, Giancarlo Giametti, had renewed their contracts with their owners - the Italian textile group Marzotto - after rumors last season that the Roman couturier would soon retire. Last week, Valentino showed no sign of quitting anytime soon, as he showed an ever-rich collection of velvet suits beaded in jet, topaz and crystal, and point d'esprit gowns in solemn black or graphic black-and-white. Even with the newcomers in Paris this season, it was the old guard who triumphed in their sobriety and skill...