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Early this morning Barneys New York unveiled its 2008 Holiday Windows, which are being called: "Peace & Love: Have a Hippie Holiday". The theme was chosen in honor of the peace sign's 50th anniversary, and style guru/creative director Simon Doonan is the man behind the 60's holiday vibe (which incidentally leaves out any political references).
Doonan pointed out this morning that "girls these days are so materialistic, but hippies back then didn't have handbags" (that said, shop at Barneys!) and pondered a modern day Janis Joplin having to get a spray tan in order to be noticed by label bigwigs (one window is centered around Joplin and Carly Simon).
Volkswagen also joined in on the Barneys fun, and the two "commissioned New York artist John-Paul Philippe to custom paint a one-of-a-kind New Beetle inspired by the decade and its indelible iconography." Doonan notes that “While the counterculture of the late ’60s produced a host of cultural icons, none captured the vibe more poignantly than the Volkswagen Beetle." After its run in the window, tickets to win the vehicle will be available to holiday shoppers in-store and online, with a suggested price of $100.00 and proceeds will benefit the Carbon Fund. Stay tuned for more holiday window reveals!
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cringeworthy.
hippies only need peace and love, not your overpriced crap.
That's a pretty damned absurd statement coming from a high-end department store. $5,000 handbag anyone?
Get a life.
Oh wow, the depression will really bum them out.
Baby boomers are the center of the universe.
#2 RUBYREDHEAD what about the weed?
Simon Doonan is a sweetie and someone who's become more of a New Yorker than a Londoner since opening his stores. And yes, the store windows are awful.
Buffy Sainte-Marie loaned her image out to Barneys?
Wait: Barney's is doing this because no one has any money for clothes, right? so we're just going back to making our own, thrift stores, and FREE STORES!
I hear many things classified as ironic, but this...I'm on the phone withe O.E.D. people right now.
I think it's really cute and well done. The decade of the 1960s is a HUGE style inspiration for its creativity and artistry. It stands for peace, down-to-earth sensibility, and equality -- which will hopefully be an appropriate way to characterize the values of 2009.
This beats the regular boring stuffy high-end fashion yawn garbage.
Just got their new catalogue... and it's hysterical yet frightening.
The perfect way to celebrate the hippie/peace era? A $588,000 necklace! Or perhaps $150 for slippers with a peace sign!
Doonan must have his overworked face stuck up his ass.
This guy's the first to get eaten when the plague hits.
What a bunch of crap.
it WOULD be a disgusting bastardization of a social movement which tried to push FREE love and exchange.... But that social movement in particular has already been a dead fetid corpse for a long time now. All it is at all anymore is the "style inspiration" bklyngrrl says it is... but that doesn't mean that it just isn't yet more yawn garbage.