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This season the buzz is all about a new line of jeans called Habitual, the brainchild of Nicole Garrett, a former fashion editor, and her fiance Michael Colovos. Habitual jeans' subtle washes and tailored details such as welt pockets and bound buttonholes have become the overnight favorites of models like Gisele Bundchen and Carolyn Murphy. The jeans are so hot that Barney's and Fred Segal can't keep them on the shelf, and they are rumored to have Levi's creative team in a tizzy. Of course, Levi's is a 130-year-old multibillion-dollar global brand...
...discerning crowd currently likes the American Idol format, which spends several months publicly culling the herd to about 10 finalists and then launches a series of up-close-and-personal, sudden-death sing-offs. This is the brainchild of three Simons--Fuller came up with the concept, but it was fine-tuned with the help of Simon Cowell, a music-industry executive (and the acerbic judge in the U.S. and British versions) and Simon Jones, head of FMusic TV, part of FremantleMedia, the company that jointly owns and produces the Idol format globally. South Africa and Poland have had their...
...meeting was the brainchild of the subcommittee of a committee formed last spring to improve race relations at the Law School after several racially charged incidents...
...Lavender Marilyn (1) at its contemporary art auction in New York on Nov. 12. And Phillips has said it expects at least $4 million for Silver Liz, a 1963 image of Elizabeth Taylor. Try to get your head around that. - L.G. Hip Sleep The boutique hotel was the brainchild of Ian Schrager, co-founder of New York's legendary Studio 54. Reasoning that his nightclub's hip clientele would want to stay in hip hotels, he created such architectural landmarks as London's Sanderson and St. Martin's Lane. Now that concept is celebrated in an exhibition, "New Hotels...
This past weekend, Harvard’s choicest selections of meat couldn’t be found in any dining hall or final club. Rather, that honor went to the Adams House Poole Theater, the venue of choice for Meat: A Playwright’s Festival. The brainchild of co-producer and participant Maggie Lehrman ’03, the festival showcased diverse works of comedy and drama from 10 up-and-coming undergraduate playwrights...