"A lot of Muslim girls who wore the hijab got tired of being told that they couldn't be stylish or that they had to be frumpy or dowdy," said Melanie Elturk, 29, the founder of Haute Hijab, a Chicago-based company that sells head scarves and modest clothing.
With weddings fashionable again in the heady luxury of the late 1980s and '90s, high-fashion designers took over the once-staid wedding industry (so princess-brides could now be stylish and sexy); the post-Diana celebrity culture took over our psyches; and the Disney Princess phenomenon -- launched at the beginning of the new millennium -- whipped it all into a look-at-me frenzy!
In the early eighties, a trio of designers — Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, and Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons — started teaching Japanese and Westerners alike that wear- ing layers of oddly shaped black garments could be terrifically stylish.
With the delicate couture dresses from Madeleine Vionnet, ordered by the royal beauty Maharani Sanyogita Devi of Indore, the show proves that, once liberated from a semi-hidden existence, Indian princesses from Gwalior to Hyderabad could be as stylish as their husbands.
The cabin itself could be more stylish.
Still, the cabin could be more stylish.
When I'm DJing, it's the same thing; depending on how you mix two records, it could be super stylish, or it could be technically perfect at least, that's the way I think when I DJ.
When the work was performed at the Théâtre de l'Athénée on 13 December 1867 it was a great success, and the Revue et Gazette Musicale's critic lavished particular praise on Bizet's act: "Nothing could be more stylish, smarter and, at the same time, more distinguished".
First Gaylord Wilshire imagined that his land west of downtown could be a stylish new residential district, an idea fulfilled when Gen. Harrison Otis, the longtime Los Angeles Times owner and publisher, and then his rival in the newspaper business, Edwin T. Earl, built side-by-side mansions in the late 1890s.
