Like many a robber baron — or Russian oligarch, or Enron executive — Mr. Slim calls to mind the words of Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime".
It helps, of course, that they are flattering, that an "American socialite" like Palermo who can afford Chloe has bought them, and that Zara is often designed with taller, slimmer people in mind so that their wearers act as ersatz models.
He said, 'I must stay rational or I'm going to lose my mind.' " Slim turned into the gated driveway of a house that he uses as an office.
Several iterations of Le Smoking also came down the runway, some with sheer blouses, others with skinny ties that brought to mind the slim line menswear aesthetic Slimane himself created at Dior Homme in the early aughts.
You catch a glimpse of teasers like "15 Sex Tips That Will Blow His Mind" or "Slim Down Fast For Summer!" on the cover of a magazine and, influenced by a mix of insecurity and intrigue, you reach for it and read it cover to cover.
England's slim first innings set minds briefly at ease, but then Australia began batting and the dread came flooding back.
But its chances of landing the Mind prize is slim; it is, after all, a novel.
The last thing that might come to mind is that Slim Loris is really a mispronunciation of the nocturnal primate -- slender loris -- native to India and Sri Lanka.
Doe-eyed and boyish in a gray wool sweater and Seven jeans — both nonorganic, he confessed — he brought to mind a younger, slimmer Matthew Broderick.
Though most people could, if they put their minds to it, slim down by the traditional means of eating less and exercising more, the $8 billion a year sucked up by the slimming industry in America alone suggests that an easier way would be welcome.
