Under the inventive vision of Jenna Lyons, J. Crew's revered executive creative director, as well as Mickey Drexler, the C.E.O., the clothes and the Web site have become ruffly, silky, beaded and sequined.
Borne of a patrician family that owned part of the land that became Central Park, educated at Hotchkiss and Yale, he strayed from high society and became a sandaled, beaded and pot-smoking hippy in the 1960's.
She hooked up with another Bergdorf buyer to create Roarke New York in 2009, offering what's become their signature chiffon beaded necklaces after they saw an opening in the fashion market for something beaded that could take a woman from jeans to black tie.
Her custom-made body armor became silver-beaded, sequin-covered dresses; her breastplate morphed into convex metal-coated vests and her chaps turned into skintight gun metal gray leather leggings sliced open with rows upon rows of horizontal zippers.
At formal events, Swift became known for "sparkly, beaded dresses".
The prototype suit is beaded.
In a season rife with cuff and bangle bracelets, Meredith Frederick's roll-on beaded bracelets have become the hot jewelry pick of the moment, particularly for those who dislike the constant jingle and clank of overloaded wrists.
Any additional ones you pick up become accessories, like a beaded clutch, that you can trot out for special occasions.
They even became folk art, as kids beaded and appliqued them.
During the séance, at the heart of the piece, Marsh is enthrallingly weird, his eyes darting nervously, his forehead beaded with sweat as he becomes a channel for multiple, fragmented voices.
