They garbed the Pont Neuf in Paris in 454,178 square feet of chic champagne-hued cloth and simultaneously dispersed 1,340 blue umbrellas across the rice paddies of Ibaraki, Japan, and 1,760 yellow umbrellas across the sere hills of Southern California.
It's midcentury lake-chic, with bark cloth pillows, vintage camp photos they found at flea markets, patchwork quilts.
Her handbags, made of cloth in a "hippie chic" style, are sold at Henri Bendel in Manhattan, at Fred Segal Melrose in West Hollywood, Calif., and on her Web site, therealmonicainc.com.
And the other go-to style, that of crisp white tennis shorts, also got some time in the sun, turning up cut out of eyelet cloth at the Moschino Cheap & Chic show or in a fluid fabric in designer Vanessa Bruno's collection.
Armani will add stores in Mumbai and Bangalore within the year, Mr. Triefus said, exporting chic silk shantung dhotis to the land of Gandhi and hand-loomed khadi cloth.
It's essentially cut from the same cloth as many of that neighborhood's dining spots, with its casually chic vibe, coolly modern interior and carefully calibrated menu, all played for maximum dramatic effect.
They are what they are, and anyone looking at, say, Jean Paul Gaultier's spring couture show would know, from the cut of the cloth to the twist of the turbans, that it is about modern French chic.
Bureau of Trade's newest lineup, sourced from all corners of the Internet, includes Commes des Garçons cloth blazers, Yohji Yamamoto military coats, vintage Seiko stopwatches and one-off housewares like a retro-chic Sony clock radio.
"From a distance, the wearer appears to conform by wearing a chic grey suit," he says, "but you can see there is some interesting detail that draws the eye to the cloth".
