Fashionable people buy multiple pairs, which is one reason for the success at Luxottica Group ( LUX).

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Many fashionable and flamboyant people, including the Maharajah of Mysore, had glamorized the product.

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"Once there was less demand because facial hair was more political, but now mustaches and beards are more fashionable, and people want to look trendy, " she says.

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Lloyd compares its use by protesters to the way Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara became a fashionable symbol for young people across the world.

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It's fashionable right now for people to be cynical.

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Although the Up band isn't always fashionable, it will make people more conscious of what their bodies are doing each day.

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But, of course, most Chinese people are now mesmerized by the new and the fashionable.

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Not sure if acceptable or fashionable are truly the point but I do know a lot of people, especially in journalism these days, who are indeed feeling a bit burnt out.

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It's set right in the middle of Tokyo's bright and fashionable Shibuya district, which thumps, booms and grinds with life, its young people strutting about in some of Earth's coolest fashions.

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Even though it is fashionable to say that Dell is overpriced, the company is still the star in personal computers and its what people who know a little bit about stocks and a little bit about computers are buying.

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