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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Similar Taste?
I remember working in the dresses department at Lord and Taylor. All the dresses had a similar style and all the designers seemed to have used the same palette of colors for all the dresses that season.
Color and design are not the only two things that can be compared between designers. Designers may also have matching store window display’s, look-alike newsletters, identical photography for their website and the same store set-up.
I guess, that’s what happens when to be different is celebrated, everyone ends up the same.
This is a collage of two newsletters. At the right is Michael Kors and at the left is Cole Haan. Even though the bag styles are different and even the layout of the newsletter are different, there seem to be similarities.
The bags are big and both newsletters are targeted to ‘Mom’ with the same color backdrop, white. There is also one bag in both pictures that is red.
However, if I had to pick a letter over another, I would pick the Cole Haan letter.The art in the background catches the eye. And the fact that he isn’t advertising more Cole Haan items in the letter, makes me as the buyer think: maybe I really should shop for a bag from Cole Haan. Because the only thing pictured in Cole Haan’s newsletter is his bags, this seems to show his confidence in his bag design. He seem to be saying: I don’t need to market anything else in this letter.
Marketing something else in the letter takes away from the main item. Of course anybody can buy their mom anything for Mother’s Day, but if you are suggesting a bag as a gift to your customers then you should market the bag extremely well.
I guess it doesn’t matter if businesses do have similar taste, one would always out do another.
Church Shoes
When it’s church time, it’s dress time!
And, you can’t just wear any ol’ shoe. It has to be coy, comfortable and classy.
I took this photo in church on Saturday.
The shoe at the left is designed by Christian Siriano and was on sale at Payless. I stopped getting shoes from Payless when my mom stopped taking me shoe shopping. I think I was influenced by a lot of my sisters and close friends talking down Payless. Nevertheless, if Christian Siriano is designing for Payless, I may have to pay Payless a visit!
The middle shoe is by Talbots. I adore Talbots so I adore the shoe.
The foot at the right is by Enzo Angiolini. It is pointed and strapped around the ankle. The only shoe pictured that has a heel.
Tapes
I took a taxi this weekend.
I complimented the taxi driver on his tape player. It was the first taxi I took in a long time, still using tapes over cds.
The Fly Away Dress
I ADORE this print by Rachel Roy!! Isn’t it lovely?
The soft pastels, the white topping, the hues, it’s like you are walking around with a beautiful canvas wrapped around your body.
Go Rachel Roy!!
It goes for 119.00 at http://www.rachelroy.com/
Black Rice?
You are looking at a photo taken last summer. It is a group of Mary Mitchell children fixing their peers a snack for snack-time.
The children went to the community garden and picked fresh verdura to make a salad and then followed Martina from Gustiamo around the cucina to help fix the rice.
Whenever she requested more salt, they were right there to pour it in…yes, pour. Until she taught them the concept of a ‘dash of salt’. The salt Martina brought over to the Mary Mitchell was new to them, being Sea Salt from Trapani.
And the olive oil? Well, lets just say that the kids kept pouring that on too…Until there was no more Colle Nobile olive oil.
It was something new for the entire Mary Mitchell community. Not eating healthy, because Mary Mitchell always eat healthy but this snack was something else! Made by its very own…
The little chefs and Martina set up a little table and decided to serve every one at the center their special: Salad and Black Rice.
Yes, Black Rice.
Martina schooled everyone and told us where the rice was made (china) and how it was grown (in marshy land…).
Finally, it was tasting time…who will be the first? Some of the staff who didn’t know what the children were cooking sent word down to tell them not to forget to save them a dish.
Everyone in the center was surprised. What’s this black stuff? Black Rice?!
Some kids ate the salad and left the black stuff. Some ate it.
But all kept the memories of Gustiamo and the black rice.
Pasta Latini
When my dad opened the pasta box, he came across this here spaghetti string. It has the shape of the rod of an umbrella!
(I wonder if a spaghetti string is called a spaghetti string when it’s not cooked?)
Anyways, imagine if the Latini family created a box of spaghetti strings looking like this one?
A Gustiamo Dinner
Yunice cooked a quick dinner dish the other night.
It was so quick, I went back for seconds and there was none.
My dad made the meat which was general ground beef mix with the usual: cipolli, green peppers, ect. Then Yunice added a fantastic sauce: “Sugo Malafemmina” – Malafemmina Pasta Sauce.
Yunice fixed up a simple spaghetti dish to go with the meal. This dish was so good, even Beatrice from Gustiamo would have been licking her fingers! Yunice used Pasta Latini and Buonolio, an olive oil by Benza.The pasta was made with the right amount of oil. It was not to stringy or sticky. When I picked it up with my forchetta, it did not slide off; nevertheless, it wasn’t dry. It was ‘just right’ spaghetti.
I hope you like our professional food photo!
p.s. I used two words from my Italian Vocabulary…do you know which two?
Louis Vuitton Window
I realize that I never officially ended my blog winter 2010-2011 series about store windows and their displays so I am ending in now until next winter… maybe.
This last photo is of Louis Vuitton window in Soho. (116 Greene St.)
I’m surprised that there is only one manikin in the window. Why?
Queen Latifah plays Ursula from the Little Mermaid
I just came across a stunning photo of Queen Latifah in the Time Magazine. It’s taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz. It’s a photo of Queen Latifah as Ursula from the Little Mermaid.
I think the hair is marvelous; however,the best thing is the set. Who thought of that costume?
You know, I wonder what Hank Willis Thomas would say about the photos?
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