Word: victorian
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...inform each other," says Dana Foley, a former playwright who designs the Foley line for Foley & Corinna, while her partner, Anna Corinna, scours the globe for vintage pieces. "Seeing girls pick out vintage, you get a feel for the trends," Foley observes. "Two years ago, girls were buying ripped Victorian lace, and the next season you were seeing it on the runway...
...Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and The Washington Times all devoted editorial space to discussing the issue. The Economist was inspired enough to write an article arguing that the destruction of the sculpture was compelling evidence of American prudishness. “What is political correctness but Victorian prudery in modern dress?” asked the article’s author. The infamous snow phallus picture on TheCrimson.com had over 100,000 hits—the most in the website’s history—and even Playboy requested the photo for its magazine...
...struggled with the meaning of life over the years," admits Elliot, who dropped out of graphic-design school to sell T shirts for five years at the St. Kilda markets. Then, like Harvie, he had a carpe diem call - and seized the day by enrolling in film at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996. (Elliott's friend and former classmate Glendyn Ivin took out the Palme d'Or for short film at Cannes last year with another deadpan tale about a suburban misfit, Cracker...
...Kappa Eta chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity will live at the house, the only social club residence on campus. Since exam period, members of the club—whether or not they’ll be living there—have been renovating the late 19th-century Victorian they bought last semester for just under $1 million...
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...