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Ian has a nice little riff in answer to Matt Higgins ponder, “it’s unclear why surfing has found a broader respectability,” in Sunday's New York Times.
Is this Disneyfication of the waves a good thing? After all, more people are enjoying what the early tribe of surfers enjoyed. And maybe, just maybe, surfing going upscale will translate into better stewardship of our precious oceans.
I love my sneakers and always struggle to figure out a way to where them with a suit when I'm standing in front of a few hundred people giving a speech without looking lame. Nike's solved the problem with their new anaconda or crocodile skin Air Force 1. The shoes include 18-karat-gold shoelace tips. Even at $2000, these lux-sneakers will be gone in a matter of minutes.
The New York Times gets it right with the On the Street column entitled, Customer is Always Right.
Far left, a plaid Marc Jacobs coat was worn last week just as he showed it on the runway in 2006. Left, a Junya Watanabe jacket; the wearer added plaid accessories. Some women with a creative urge gave dull classics more imaginative silhouettes. A Ralph Lauren jacket, right, is worn upside down, creating a striking cocoon shape. Far right, the wearer turned a Burberry coat inside out and wore it backward with the label as a medallion. Perhaps that’s what more people should do with the cookie-cutter clothes seen on Seventh Avenue last week.
