High Fashion Kinderspullen
IleneB
(Shamelessly clipped and reprinted in part from the NY Times)
And apparently even male designers can fall into the breeder trap.
Baby and Hotels Star at Milan Fair
By JULIE V. IOVINE
DIAPER bags, monitor necklaces for babies and plastic sippy cups shaped
like crystal goblets are not the usual offerings at the international
furniture fair here. The annual convention of the Italian furniture
industry attracts 170,000 devotees from 140 countries, all eager to see
where design is headed.
But then Philippe Starck, a longtime darling of the event, whose
rough-shaved, wild-man demeanor masks a keen business sense, thrives on
subverting the norm. After lying low on the furniture front for two
years, he has gone gangbusters with 50 designs introduced here, mostly
baby products and bathroom and desk accessories from $2 to $40. And he
designed them for that most un-Italian outlet, Target.
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"I want to help people have a better life," he said. "And the only way
to get to everybody is with the right price." Mr. Starck insisted that
his own designs by comparison are humble products that people use every
day. By people, Mr. Starck often means women.
Mr. Starck said that he likes to imagine an elegant young mother
meeting her husband in a restaurant. The woman is all dressed up. A
stroller is parked nearby. She sits down and opens her purse. Then,
"Arghh!" he said. "She pulls out these ugly pastel blue, pink and
purple things for the baby. It's a pollution." Mr. Starck's collection
is in yellow, silver and white, the kind of muted colors associated
with luxury goods, not teething rings.
Elongated and slightly sculptural, Mr. Starck's bathroom and desk
accessories have a workaday elegance. The baby products are more
surprising, largely because the nursery is a place where few modern
designers have bothered to go. Mr. Starck had a motive: his wife is
expecting a baby in September.
His streamlined translucent baby bottle with a slim band of silver
around the top could be a perfume bottle but for the distinctive
Philippe Starck logo and a top that screws off to become a rattle. A
training potty has all the right parts for easy use and cleaning. With
two ring handles, it could be a wine cooler in its next life. A baby
monitor shaped like a gaudy stone embedded with a plastic gem hangs
from a necklace chain, but anyone who moves in for an admiring look
might get a shock when it emits a baby's squawk.
Cori
IleneB wrote:
some snippage...
> His streamlined translucent baby bottle with a slim band of silver
> around the top could be a perfume bottle but for the distinctive
> Philippe Starck logo and a top that screws off to become a rattle. A
> training potty has all the right parts for easy use and cleaning. With
> two ring handles, it could be a wine cooler in its next life.
I don't care how much bleach you pour in the thing, I ain't puttin' my wine
in it.
Bleah!
Cori
Cheryl Greer
IleneB <ile...@shore.net> wrote:
> (Shamelessly clipped and reprinted in part from the NY Times)
> And apparently even male designers can fall into the breeder trap.
>
> Mr. Starck said that he likes to imagine an elegant young mother
> meeting her husband in a restaurant. The woman is all dressed up. A
> stroller is parked nearby. She sits down and opens her purse. Then,
> "Arghh!" he said. "She pulls out these ugly pastel blue, pink and
> purple things for the baby. It's a pollution."
Well, I'll agree with him there. But then, the stroller, and most
importantly, the BABY itself are also "pollutions" of any otherwise
pleasant scene.
>Mr. Starck's collection
> is in yellow, silver and white, the kind of muted colors associated
> with luxury goods, not teething rings.
Now, we picture the elegant young mother (*snork* Like such a thing
exists), the husband, the restaurant. We see her open her Coach bag and
take out her Phillipe Starck designed silver rattle. And the baby pukes
all over it. And a genuinely-elegant CF couple at the next table
snicker audibly as they breeze out the door. What was Mr. Starck's
point again?
Mine is, would you rather spend $2.99 on something that's gonna get
covered in baby puke, or $89.99?
Of all the breeders, I think I hate rich breeders the most.
Cheryl
Dan B.
news:110420021033369463%ile...@shore.net:
>
> (Shamelessly clipped and reprinted in part from the NY Times)
> And apparently even male designers can fall into the breeder trap.
>
> Mr. Starck had a motive: his wife is
> expecting a baby in September.
Ah. So this is how breeders with an international following demand we
worship the baybee. Gack, there are few things more annoying than an
"expecting" Dud.
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Lots42
>> training potty has all the right parts for easy use and cleaning. With
>> two ring handles, it could be a wine cooler in its next life.
Oh barfarama!
My head just exploded. In fact, sitcoms are now using the footage of the
explosion to indicate atomic bombs.
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