Meanwhile, activewear labels like Adidas and Nike are now emphasizing style as much as performance-enhancing fabrics.
But the sun-drenched region is aiming to attract a wider crowd as it recycles itself with a crop of new or renovated luxury hotels emphasizing style, authenticity and eco-friendliness.
The more writerly submissions -- like one in which Erica Jong talks about September days in New York where "the sky is blue as Alice in Wonderland's Victorian pinafore" -- feel overly self-conscious, emphasizing style over content, sensibility over testimony.
Janet Abels New York, Sept. 9, 2008 To the Editor: If I understand David Brooks correctly, John McCain is doing well by emphasizing style over substance — he has no unique or innovative policies, but he's a maverick-type guy.
Sloan's innovations included offering a full auto line, allowing buyers to trade up as their incomes rose; separating engineering and marketing; insisting that G.M. become one of the first big companies with outside auditing, so that stock buyers would believe its profit claims; tying executive pay to performance; emphasizing styling; and combining car sales with financing.
"In addition, VIZIO is keying on a growing trend among design-conscious consumers with the Java series, emphasizing style and design along with performance and function".
Mann, a director occasionally too prone to emphasizing style over substance (the unnecessary Miami Vice movie, for example), here seems more obsessed with story than character.
"Gladiator" won the best-picture Academy Award for 2000 and earned Ridley Scott one of his three best-director nominations; Tony Scott never was in the running for an Oscar, and critics often slammed his movies for emphasizing style over substance.
Director Nick Love keeps things moving, creating a police procedural that is exciting and flashy without emphasizing style over substance (something the Brits seem to understand in a way that Hollywood rarely does).
In its marketing, Warby Parker emphasizes style and price much more than its buy-one-give-one model.
