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Article: A Certain Savoir-Flair // These Style Leaders Definitely Have It
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 2, 1994
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S tyle. It's that elusive, can't-put-your-finger-on-it thing, but
even the untrained eye can spot it a mile away.
And just like love, money can't buy it.
"Style has absolutely nothing to do with fashion," says Tonne
Goodman, fashion director of Harper's Bazaar. "A great deal of it is
the posture you assume. It's about adapting something and making it
your own."
Don't believe it? Bald heads popped up everywhere after Michael
Jordan shaved his. Low-slung baggy jeans gripped suburbia after
urban rappers wore them on MTV. And tied-at-the-waist flannel
triggered a style revolution, thanks to grunge bands such as Nirvana
and Pearl Jam. In other words, it's not what you have - it's how you ...