Store for Designer Clothing Displays Political Leanings -NYT

[Rose Siding]

Liz Ehrlich stood transfixed at the window of the Marc by Marc Jacobs store on Bleecker Street on Wednesday. Instead of a tableau of flirty spring dresses and chic round-toed pumps, it displayed a 2-foot-by-3-foot cardboard ace of spades with the image of President Bush.

Beneath that was a caption with the words, "I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president."

snip>....The entire window display has been given over to partisan sentiment of an intensity that seems highly unusual for a major American fashion designer. It includes blown-up playing cards of several members of the administration, reminiscent of the United States military's deck showing members of the old Iraqi regime. The caption under Colin L. Powell's card reads, "My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources.

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"A store is supposed to be a place where you escape reality, lose yourself in the fun of fashion, buy yourself a treat," said Candace Corlett, a partner in WSL Strategic Retail, a New York consulting company. "Smacking customers in the face with a political issue - it's breaking the shopping karma."

http://nytimes.com/2004/06/04/nyregion/04marc.html

"the shopping karma"? Woe is me! What will we be asked to sacrifice next?

[LittleApple81]

1. Shopping karma... that is the conservative karma. Wow!!! for those

who can afford it or want to use their credit cards to the gills.

[phantom power]

2. People want to be heard. They see that their views get no attention

in the news, so they find other outlets. If we had a press that gave any coverage to this stuff, I bet we wouldn't be seeing such manifestations.

[asjr]

4. Exactly! Our press is so scared of the Imperial

Family they will not tell the truth. Hats off to Marc Jacobs. He has guts. I wish I could design an award for stupidness and give it to CNN. I am so tired of their spin for Shrub it makes me sick. I prefer to get my news from DU. DUers are smarter than any of the so-called journalists and pundits. Someone with imagination should make a Stupid Award for them and we could all pitch in for the postage. Or, rather pay for a round trip ticket to their headquarters--but make sure there is more press around to film it. Their own press.
Rant over!

[Imalittleteapot]

3. How long before some freeper

smashes the windows?

[readmylips]

5. Bleeker Street...no Fleepers there...solid Democrat ....

Bleeker Street is in Manhattan westside of the Village, where most of Vietnam songs were created and sang. Fleepers nor regular republicans would fit in. Bleeker Street is the center of democracy and free speech.

[Rose Siding]

6. I hope Ms Erlich's a day tripper

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"We're in a sensitive world right now," she said. "And fanning the fires on our own street is not a good idea."

[struggle4progress]

7. Well, Bush told us to go shopping to save America!