But Modernist passages in the history of taste can end as suddenly as they begin not least when judgments that genius is sitting on the doorstep depend as heavily on fashion as on artistic fundamentals.
Other Windy City players that have made headlines in recent months include (though not in as infamous a fashion as Groupon) mobile marketing firm Vibe Media, food delivery and restaurant finder company GrubHub, online trading platform optionMONSTER (home of tradeMONSTER) and personnel management software company SilkRoad.
But Mr Lapidus admired workmanship, whatever the architectural genre, just as a fashion designer such as John Galliano is praised for his painstaking craftsmanship however you view his crazy clothes.
It is as much the Children Act as fashion that encourages social workers to keep unpromising families together.
Denim, whether as pants, jackets, dresses or skirts, is as popular in the fashion capitals of Europe as it is here (and maybe even more so).
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That song celebrates people who are neither appropriately light-skinned, as some people might argue, nor as thin as fashion may dictate.
Though he had been influenced by the more structured looks of French couturiers, such as Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel, Armani saw his fashion as transcending fantasy.
Their presence is updating the street style of Southampton, as famous for its country-club fashion sense as for its picturesque beaches and sprawling farms.
But it is too early to have much confidence that the economy will behave in as orderly a fashion over the years ahead as the Bank suggests.
What about a possible inflection point that is arriving when most consumers will consider their phone simply as a utility device and not as a fashion accessory?
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Art presented as visual and intellectual sport, rather than as high fashion or so much cultural spinach, might suddenly come alive to the many for whom it now is not.
In 1947 the Lefevre Gallery in London hung a framed series of these scarves on its walls, and their success as works of art as well as instantly recognisable fashion accessories was assured.
Advertisers and marketers see the young as most open to new fashion and change, and as prime consumer targets.
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It created an Innovation Design Lab as an in-house school for promising designers, and it sends people on internships in industries as diverse as fashion and cosmetics to gain new ways of thinking.
As a fashion-driven business, the industry is subject to dramatic swings in demand as tastes change.
At their height, these firms and their founders were as likely to be covered in the fashion and lifestyle sections as on the business pages.
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For all the popularity of camouflage backpacks and jackets, we are hardly a culture that looks to its military as an arbiter of fashion or, for that matter, as art patrons.
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Deputy mayors Patricia Harris and Robert Steel, Council of Fashion Designers of America President Diane von Furstenberg, IMG head Ted Forstmann and Lincoln Center chair Katherine Farley also joined Bloomberg as he spent the next 20 minutes extolling the virtues of New York as a fashion base.
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The increasing presence of Asian women on our list reveals their growing dominance in fields as far flung as technology, finance and fashion design.
"There's been a lot of optimism expressed in fashion, not as much darkness as in the past, " says Sharon Graubard, trend analyst for Stylesight, a fashion-industry consulting group.
We take their remnant inventory and give it a new life by shooting unique editorials as creative and beautiful as ads in the top fashion magazines.
This morning at the official launch of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Michael Bloomberg claimed New York as the fashion capital of the world.
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The South Korean capital city, awash in economic exuberance, is developing as a design, fashion and technology centre, and is breaking out as a key business hub.
Manchester United responded in typical fashion as Yorke claimed his second just four minutes later.
In highly image-driven consumer categories such as fashion, perfume or liquor, celebrity endorsements can be credible.
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Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?
Politicians used to see fashion as a world of mad people in strange shoes.
Yuriko Ogura, 22, is visiting from Osaka, Japan, for the event as well as Fashion Week.
The new apps include companies in areas such as fashion, fitness, food, travel, entertainment and charity.
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