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The Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Bag
Prada just re-issued the famous patent leather bag that Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was carrying around Tribeca1 in the 1990s.
Along with her husband John F. Kennedy Jr., these two Gen X gods are all over the 90’s mood boards - examples here, here and here.
Prada is calling it the 1995 Re-Edition and is selling a brushed leather version for $3,000. No patent leather version though.
Re-issuing styles from the archive is a big business. Dior famously re-issued the Saddle Bag in 2018 to widespread acclaim, and Nike has been mining its back catalogue for hits.
Nostalgia is a powerful tool brands can wield, and we’re expecting this bag to sell extremely well.
Men and their Wood
Large, oversized wood furniture and decorative accessories continue to have their moment: look no further than the continued successes of Vince Skelly and Ido Yoshimoto.
Raquel’s new fave is Adam Birch, a sculptor/designer from South Africa carving enormous pieces out of tree forks. He works only with either invasive tree species, or indigenous species that have already fallen:
A passionate environmentalist, Birch cuts down only alien tree species and uses indigenous wood only from trees that have already fallen. Once a tree is felled, he takes a trunk-to-twig approach to utilising the timber, sawing it into planks, floor boards, structural beams and firewood until only the fork remains. This is the part of the tree that carpenters usually discard because the dense, twisted grain is difficult to cut.
And in a completely different use of the medium, Pierre Yovanovitch is working with Dior on a set of wooden decorative accessories.
Stupid Games
With Learned League on hiatus, I started playing Geoguessr where you get dropped into a random Google Street View location around the world, and have to figure out where you are just based on the scenery. You can move around and zoom in before making an educated guess and dropping a pin on the map. Top players are able to get within a few yards of the actual location:
[Ellen Murray] has a specific trick to differentiate between neighboring New Zealand and Australia: Both drive on the left side of the road, but have different “Give Way” signs. In Australia, the border of the sign is red and its text is black, and in New Zealand both components of the sign are red. Her favorite trick, though, is for Colombia: Road signs there usually have a metallic cross-bracing at the back.
I am pretty terrible and don’t have the patience that some of the players have, but there are some surprisingly relaxing YT videos out there of serious gamers talking through their thought process.
Window Shopping
The Tom Sachs NFT that Tiffany acquired for $380K
Releases from the big Geneva watch show including a new Rolex Air-King and a Cartier Coussin that is an actual cushion
The leather Dune Sandals I helped create are handcrafted in Mexico and just $80 - in Moab and Clove
Links.
What’s inside the gift bags Oscar nominees received last week.
Amazon continues to not succeed in the grocery business.
An obscure UN body is going to determine whether humans can mine the sea floor.
Cardi B’s security team at the amusement park.
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Chris & Raquel
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They lived at 20 North Moore Street, basically the best street in Tribeca.