Valencia-based Spanish designer Jaime Hayon tempers frivolity and luxury with adaptability in his Baccarat Zoo series.
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But what, I ask you, does this lighthearted season of frivolity mean for the serious music lover?
Silly, perhaps, but in a town known for spa stodginess, a little frivolity goes a long way.
Nor does it signify the shift away from frivolity and toward more somber dress during World War I.
He creates a carefree world in a variety of rhymed meters that are full of alliteration, frivolity and fun.
LinkedIn often gets lumped in with MySpace and Facebook, which both have more youth and frivolity and 120 million members each.
Mr Brown is now betting the other way: that toffiness, with its connotations of dilettantism and frivolity, is still offputting enough to sway votes.
Mr Brown (and the Treasury) regarded Mr Blair's enthusiasm for the currency as a dangerous frivolity, while Mr Blair chafed over Mr Brown's veto.
Despite such unpredictability, dissecting the dynamics of users growth is not a frivolity as it could lead to better insights on reaching critical mass of users.
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This upends the conventional wisdom that viral cute kitten videos, though they may build media empires, are the ultimate frivolity, merely a time sink.
But taking their privilege for frivolity would be a mistake.
"This car is a showcase, it's a little bit of frivolity, it's for a motor show in Switzerland designed by an Italian at a design studio in Frankfurt, " he said.
Here, he'll perform with that full band featuring multi-instrumentalists Brigham Brough, Wyndham Boylan-Garnett and Nick Kinsey which employs delicately strummed guitars and the occasional frivolity of New Orleans-inspired brass.
The best serious suggestions I'll forward on to places where they have a fighting chance of being looked at - but don't let that hold you back (as if anything could) from frivolity.
Jacques van der Watt's highly conceptual brand, which values the form and functionality of clothing over the frivolity of trends, has for over a decade helped forge a contemporary identity for South African fashion.
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The Administration's new policy stance also serves to further acclimatize U.S. citizens to this sort of strategic frivolity, and makes it that much hard for future administrations to right the ship and set America on an effective policy path.
Woe betide the British person who dares to suggest that his country's excellent performance at the Games wasn't a sign of national regeneration but of national frivolity and meretriciousness, to which its population and its leaders now turn as naturally as some flowers turn to the sun.
But the greater frivolity is the HRC's willingness to hear the complaint from an organization whose president, Mohamed Elmasry, is on public record in Canada for the suggestion -- though later retracted under duress -- that Israelis in general over the age of 18 are legitimate targets for Palestinian suicide-bombers.
In case you think WNYC is spending your hard-earned contributions on a subject that flirts with frivolity and you're considering unincluding them in your estate planning, they assured me that this project was pushed into the New Year by more important data-mining efforts, on subjects such as superstorm Sandy and the recent presidential election.
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