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Haute haute  
adj.
Fashionably elegant: "In Washington, haute gastronomy is at least as important as the national economy" Ann L. Trebbe.
 couture has long sought to blend high and low culture, and the latest marriage is yet another example.

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Toymaker (real name Cosmo Krank) is a brand new, original villain in The Batman. He first appeared in Cash for Toys. He is voiced by Patton Oswalt.
 Mattel Inc. and Austrian crystal house Swarovski have joined in the training of students at the Otis College of Art and Design's Fashion School in downtown L.A. by supplying materials as the students dressed Barbie dolls Barbie doll

popular dress-up doll; extremely conventional and feminine. [Am. Hist.: Sann, 179]

See : Fads
 in crystal-dotted ensembles.

They worked all semester preparing the Sea Goddess-themed costumes, and Mattel provided custom-made Barbies with a variety of skin tones and hairstyles to meet the needs of the students' concepts. Swarovski donated the crystals.

Morgan Olson, a graduating senior, won the best costume award--the Golden Thimble--with a creation inspired by the decor of the ornate hotels in Dubai, where she once spent two weeks.

She spent at least 300 hours, sometimes in all night crystal-gluing sessions, working on her Barbie Barbie
 in full Barbara Millicent Roberts

A plastic doll, 11.5 in. (29 cm) tall, with the figure of an adult woman that was introduced in 1959 by Mattel, Inc., a southern California toy company.
 fashions. The biggest challenge was attaching 6,000 tiny crystals to the blue-spotted grouper-colored skirt.

"I used a very small toothpick toothpick,
n a wood sliver used to cleanse the interdental space.

toothpick, balsa wood,
n a triangular wedge of balsa wood used to clean the teeth interproximally and stimulate the interdental gingival tissues.
 with wax on it," she said, "a bottle of glue and a lot of patience."
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Title Annotation:The LABJ's L.A. Stories
Author:Silkin, Steve
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Date:May 3, 2004
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