Classification: Language of Flowers

Flowers express a wealth of feelings. Some flowers express love, others can express regret, passion, or remembrance.

Star Trek Apparel: The Enterprise Collection

Celebrating 40 years since Star Trek launched its inaugural voyage, the creators of the groundbreaking series are proud to introduce Trek Apparel, the Enterprise Collection.

These jeans boldly go where no pants have gone before.

Produced in limited quantities, each pair is custom packaged in an official Starfleet Academy collector’s duffel, and hand-stitched with original Star Trek insignia and Special Edition authenticity patch signed by the legend William Shatner, who originated the role of full-speed-ahead commander.

Main Bridge
Whether barreling through hyperspace or taking time off in the holodeck, Enterprise Collection denim will keep fans at warp nine with riveted 5-pocket styling and an easy, expandable button fly.

Engineering
Available in premium Starfleet regulated wash, Enterprise Collection denim is the logical wardrobe choice for the most discerning and fashion-conscious fans.

TurboLift
Fitted at the waist and generously proportioned through the captain’s seat and thigh, Enterprise Collection denim will maintain control and flexibility through the worst tumbles with Klingon enemies or long hours cruising the convention floor.

Be assimilated.

Since it has been so heavily reported in the news, I thought to create an ad campaign which promotes a Air Passenger Bill og Rights. My first instinct was to use ads from 50s and 60s. Real live the good old days of air travel...for example. harken back to when air travel was spacious, a luxury, and something filled with little customer service extras.

Description: Wine Tasting Notes

From Mondovi Napa Valley – Tasting 2002

Robert Mondavi 2002 Napa Valley Fumé Blanc displays bright citrus, pineapple, lemon grass, floral and mineral notes that enliven the aromas and cascade across the palate. Barrel-fermentation and gentle stirring during aging in French oak barrels enhanced the elegant, spicy finish.

From Coppola Wines—Tasting Notes 2002

Rubicon 2002 has saturated ruby-purple color signaling ripe fruit and high extractions. The aroma expresses Classic Estate Cabernet character of black cherries tinged with violets. The palate reveals an opulent texture with sweet ripe fruit scented with vanilla, and toasty notes from aging in 100% New French oak barrels. Framing the lavish texture are chocolate, sweet tart fruits, and black licorice that linger on the long finish
characteristics of the vintage which also produced impressive, powerful tannins that will soften with time tin the bottle.

Lovely Rita. A Spread for Vanity Fair

Discovered at the age of eighteen, Rita Tushingham was all eyes. She was not tall, nor shapely, nor particularly pretty. Yet her look, both fresh and nostalgic, would make her the poster pin-up of 60s British New Wave cinema. Director Tony Richardson, who would give Rita her film debut in A Taste of Honey (1961), observed Rita had “a face saved from the commonplace by a pair of enormous eyes.”

Rita grew up in Liverpool during the late 1940s. The war was over but to these victors went few spoils. London was a black and white world of rations and rationalizations. Not the sharp edged, glossy Hollywood image, but the black and white of a faded snapshot. And then, an explosion. Four young men from a sleepy seaport town take not only their country but the world by storm. The swinging 60s had begun, and before they would devolve into the violence of assassinations and Altamont, there was a brief and shining moment not to be forgot - even better than Camelot.

Mod London energized youth culture and revived working-class leisure and social optimism. Micro mini skirts roared with the pop art prints of Carnaby Street, and the driving pulse of the Kinks, The Who and The Beatles poured over the radios and exploded onto the big screen. In 1965, Rita starred in Richard Lester’s celebrated romp The Knack and How to Get It, a picture with, “the anarchic quality modish today and at all times appealing to a new generation understandably bent on overturning the ideas which have hardened in the minds of their elders,” wrote critic Dilys Powell. The film won Lester the Palm D’or at the Cannes Film Festival and signaled to the world that the Mod movement had arrived, crowning Rita its cinema sweetheart.

Rita’s iconic status grew with her film credits including The Leather Boys (1962), Girl With Green Eyes (1963), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Smashing Time (1967). She perfected a new kind of girl-next-door; vunerable, direct, and saucy. In a 2003 interview for the BBC, Rita remarked, “I love film. I absolutely love every single thing about it. Not just the acting part, but everything that goes on the floor. It’s fascinating, and was from the day I started. Tony Richardson, the most wonderful director in the world to work with, made me interested in how everything worked.” Perhaps in her most nuanced performance, Rita was cast as a mute woman in Sidney Hayer’s The Trap (1966). Without a word of dialogue, she lit up the screen with her soulful eyes.

Throughout the 1970's and early 1980's, her film career slowed, as did the British filmmaking industry. Rita continued to perform in films throughout Europe and Canada, and appeared at International Film Festivals to promote her own work and that of fledging independent filmmakers. When the National Film Theatre launched its revival season of Mod Sixties cinema in 2003, Rita Tushingham became an immediate marquee attraction. “How do you feel to be the face of the Swinging 60s?” she was asked in an interview. Rita laughed, “I guess it means we made our mark. When you look at the roles women had in the 50s, and then suddenly, in the 60s, there were these tough roles that young women were playing…that’s what made the mark. It wasn’t just us, or our faces, it was the roles we were playing and the stories we told.”

Carnaby Sharp. A Spread for Esquire

The sharp crack of a snare drum, the purring of a Vespa, and the click click of high heel boots on hard pavement. It’s the Swingin 60s in London, baby, and what’s old is new and what’s cool is Mod. The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Carnaby Street, Julie Christie, and David Hemmings. Are you a Mod or a Rocker? Or as Ringo famously said in A Hard Days Night, when asked to pick sides, “I’m a mocker.” Whether at the job or “on the job”, the fashions of the smart, eclectic hipster never fade.

For many, their introduction to the universe of swinging London came from that international man of mystery, Austin Powers. Why do you think Mike Myers created his own James Bond/Derek Flint hero? The threads are totally shag-adelic. Fitted mid and max-length overcoats, dramatically belted, remains a staple of the hepcat’s wardrobe. Modern updates on the classic ready-made suit include mohair, cashmere, and wool jackets with pants cut with a flair for a rock-and-roll finish. “You think you are clever, Mr. Smarty, Mr. Tight-Tight Trousers,” cries doll-baby Rita Tushingham in the 1965 sex romp The Knack and How to Get It.” Long purple coats, highwayman high colors, and Union Jack jackets can put a rocket in your pocket, make you feel like you are on leapers, and you know you are the AceFace.

Why are we still bobbing to the Mersybeat? Why do 40 year old fashions seem so fresh? Is it merely nostalgia, a harkening back to what we may, mistakenly, take for a “simpler time? Just boomers refusing to give it up and go gentle into that good night? Could be. But one look at the sharp sleek lines, the bold colors, the eye-popping pop art sensibility and we are sold. Both of a time and place, and totally timeless.

SHOW and TELL: 2.10.07

Thinking of Compare and Contrast reminded me of this commercial and ad campiagn. Is you brain on drugs like an egg in a frying pan? This was certainly an effective campaign to make the cover of TIME. And it reminds me so vividly of a time and place--this ad was provocative and simple.

The mod sixties in swingin London. Cellar clubs, shiny suits, and a knack for anti-social coolness. A fashion spread for men and women with examples from hipsters in cinema and the news.

feb 6.2007

Champagne in a can comes with a straw attached like Capris Sun's I had in grade school. It's a girly drink--pink, portable and fizzy. I bought a six-pack for my sister's birthday. Stylishly, we got silly and watched Lost in Translation.