Sentence examples for make fashionable from inspiring English sources

"High backs are very popular now," she said, singling out an armchair wrought in the sort of rattan that she had helped make fashionable.

At first it was unquestionably a single issue green party, preoccupied with issues around sustainability that it fought to make fashionable.

He carved the stations of the cross for Westminster Cathedral (1914 18), London; these bas-reliefs and his famous torso "Mankind" (1928) were cut in Hoptonwood stone, which he helped make fashionable in the 1920s and '30s.

In old age she was a familiar figure with her hair, gradually changing from auburn to gray, always in a topknot and her boyish figure always in the trousers that she helped to make fashionable.

Britain's high street fashion giant Primark was at the centre of a storm last night over allegations that illegal immigrants paid just over half the minimum wage had been employed to make fashionable knitwear for one of the firm's bestselling ranges.

The fact that his first wife, Edith Stevenson, offered him £1,000 so that for a year they could be seen in places where he might make fashionable professional contacts, and he indignantly refused, was a pointer to the difficulties that would end the marriage in 1964.

But electroclash's days of having its cake and eating it - making fashionable club records that mock fashion and clubbing - are already numbered.

She invented the wraparound dress, designed fashion eyewear, created the first designer boutique and made fashionable the use of synthetic fabrics, like rayon.

The effect was a casual nonchalance that makes fashionable people doubt themselves for dressing up.

These days, the wood's attractive grain and light hue makes fashionable furniture.

As a philosopher, Condillac gave systematic expression to the views of Locke, previously made fashionable in France by Voltaire.