Light bulbs, even L.E.D. bulbs — which are the next big thing, since they're superior to compact fluorescents on most levels except price (and that should change soon enough) — aren't exactly a glamorous design category.
The chain-link straps added some serious edge to the glamorous design.
Here was a woman who had met with success at jobs many people would envy -- working in glamorous design studios at Silicon Valley darlings IDEO and Apple.
There is also the issue of an inescapable Italian elegance, the stylishness that infuses even the most modest or quirky materials; it often seems of a piece with, rather than a reaction against, the glamorous designs of the Italian Miracle.
By George W. S. Trow Diana Vreeland, center, surrounded by models and actresses wearing costumes and masks for the Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design exhibition, 1974.
Her exhibitions of "Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design," "The Glory of Russian Costume," and other pizzazz-generating subjects drew big crowds, and the Costume Institute's annual benefit began living up to its hopeful title as the "Party of the Year".
About three weeks before the opening of the current Metropolitan Museum exhibition "Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design," I paid a visit to Mrs. Vreeland in her Chinese-red office in the Met's basement.
On the day "Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design" was to open — with a black-tie dinner at a hundred and fifty dollars a ticket, to be held in the museum's main restaurant, around the pool — I walked through the show with Mrs. Vreeland again.
The type of grinding, sweaty work it implies — time in the field, in villages and on farms, learning about cultures and social structures — is certainly less glamorous than designing overarching theories to rid the world of poverty.
Photographs of her edible creations are frequently complimented by the artist wearing her own glamorous fashion designs and deft photo-editing.
This was nearly a decade ago, and Ms. Im-Propp's command of English was tenuous, but she enrolled at Parsons and in short order found herself an internship with Victoria Bartlett, a noted stylist and designer whom she admired and hoped would introduce her to the glamorous world of design.
