Word: voguishness
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Keeping the lines voguish has ensured a stream of recent hits for Target, perhaps even a few bull's-eyes. In stores now is an effervescent new collection by the New York City--based sophisticates behind Proenza Schouler. Designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez conceived bustier tops, jersey dresses and tropical prints that evoke their main line in everything but price. "We want the customer to know it's authentic," says Adams, who joined Target in 1983 as an assistant buyer and was promoted to senior vice president of softlines six years ago. Authentic, relevant and fun are her buzzwords...
...most voguish are Indian mid-cap funds, which bet on riskier companies that may one day grow up to be blue chips. In November and December alone, the CNX mid-cap index jumped 28%. Returns like those make life worth living, but gravity has a way of bringing things back to earth. When I met him in Bombay, Nilesh Shah, head of equity strategy at Kotak Securities, seemed pleased but perplexed by the performance of his team's fledgling mid-cap fund, targeted at foreigners willing to pony up $100,000. Six months after its launch last August, he marveled...
...been 30% poorer by 2003. But investors have short memories, and financial firms create whatever products are suddenly in demand. Today, that means a new generation of India-focused mutual funds and hedge funds, often with wonderfully alluring names like (my favorite) the Monsoon India Inflection Fund. The most voguish vehicles of all are mid-cap funds that bet on riskier Indian companies that may one day grow up to be blue chips. In November and December alone, the CNX mid-cap index jumped 28%. Nilesh Shah, head of equity strategy at Kotak Securities in Bombay, says his team...
...irresistible charm; it’s a magnet for the dalliances of Bright Young Things and aged courtships alike. (How the latter is possible is beyond me, though, as the ambient volume is quite vexing to proper conversation.) But is this now really such an aberrant phenomenon? Voguish restaurants need to be this protean: People want old-fashioned quality and intimacy but also flash and flutter, a measured balance of familiarity and novelty, romantic hideaways secreted amidst convivial bustle. Sonsie is exactly that sprawling, radiant paradox. Who really gives a damn about the food anymore...
Though many of the younger composers, such as Goldenthal and James Newton Howard, use synthesizers and mixing boards to try out their music before they put it in front of an orchestra, nearly all the composers reject the voguish use of fully synthesized scores. "The orchestra," says Trevor Jones, "has a limited sound palette, synthesizers a vast one. But a synthesizer score sounds old very rapidly. Orchestral scoring is what you use for a long shelf life...