Word: worn
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...could all use a little confidence right now," says Kors, "and jackets are the best way to get the armor, strength and power." After seasons of disposable dresses worn with soft little cardigans (thank you, Michelle Obama), the jacket just might provide a boost to slipping apparel sales. "It's the women who work who are shopping," Kors adds. "They're the ones who still have to get dressed. And they need confidence. Look what suits and jackets...
...being a spectacle, pushing this symbol of permanence to my friends’ digs. This sofa would be my bed for the next nine months. The move-in continued gradually. Late weekend nights in the Quad became an excuse to lug my speakers, a box of ties, or my worn Hillary Clinton poster to my new room. These new roomies didn’t merely let me store my junk in the ready-to-burst walk through. My personal memorabilia joined theirs on the wall, in this room I now referred to as “our room...
...world first, Xstrata, a $28 billion Swiss global mining company, has agreed to fund an endangered species' recovery. In exchange for spending millions on the marsupial, Xstrata's name will appear on everything wombat: from websites to educational DVDs to shirts worn by wildlife workers. Xstrata execs will also star in documentaries about the northern hairy-nose and speak at media events. Call it the ultimate in green corporate branding...
...well-heeled set, yet tonight there's more than the usual Middle East-meets-West twist. The revelers are here to toast an unlikely creative marriage, between Egyptian artist Azza Fahmy, who has spent decades reviving Arab jewelry traditions, and British designer Julien Macdonald, whose dresses are worn by London's party crowd...
...carnival of conflicted pathos—Woody Allen’s romantic anxieties shot through with Martin Scorsese’s manly poetics—but Gray’s attempt to be an auteur of enclosed spaces and private struggles is mired by bad scriptwriting filled with well-worn tropes of romantic drama. He should embrace his Hollywood side, and it actually looks like he might: his next project is a Paramount thriller starring Brad Pitt called “The Lost City of Z.”—Staff writer Kyle L.K. McAuley can be reached...