At the height of laughter,
the universe is flung
into a kaleidoscope
of new possibilities.
- Jean Houston
I make it a point
to laugh every day.
To laugh out loud.
You?
On my way back from Outremont, last night, I was waiting at Lionel-Groulx station for the metro to de l’Église when I noticed the WARHOL LIVE poster.
They’re all over the place.
I thought the lighting was cool so I took a picture.
When I turned around, I saw Debbie Harry’s reflection in
the dépanneur’s door.
And I thought: This is how easy it is to feel trapped.
It’s just a perception.
I decide to go see Warhol Live…
I get an email about Bond No. 9.
Where’s the synchronicity,
you ask?
It’s in the bottle!
A few months ago, in my ongoing quest to attract abundance, I subscribed to HOLT REN- FREW’s newsletter knowing the luxury-goods store would provide me with plenty of opportunities to visualize.
I even included it in my Treasure Map; if you take a look, you’ll notice the name HOLT, way up there at the top, pasted beside a sexy red shoe (yet more synchronicity).
The email I received on Tuesday (the day I decided the Warhol exhibit was to be my Artist Date this week) came from HOLT’s and was about this new perfume by Bond No. 9 New York called Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue. It announced that as a subscriber, I was entitled to a free sample. Lucky me!
Apparently, that’s what Andy Warhol used to say half a century ago when he first got noticed as a shoe illustrator. For what would have been the artist’s 80th birthday this year (he was born August 6, 1928), Bond No. 9 decided to honour Warhol’s origins by celebrating the mutual sensuality of shoes and eau de parfum.
Here are a few details snipped from Bond’s website:
Bond No. 9 proudly introduces the third in its series of Warhol eaux de parfum.
Its name, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue, recalls the artist’s formative pre-Pop years in 1950s New York, when he lived in the first of several apartments on Lexington Avenue and plied his trade as a prolific illustrator, mainly of imaginative shoes. Hence the Warhol-designed mélange of exclamation-point heels and high-button boots that covers the flacon.
Lush and unapologetically seductive, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue dares (perhaps for the first time in perfumery) to link two of the most ultra-feminine commodities a woman can own: fragrance and footwear.
The eau de parfum we concocted is a floral woody chypre (chypre meaning fresh citrus topnotes and a lingering forest-like base) with highly coveted contemporary gourmand notes — a brew of peony, orris, patchouli, sandalwood, cardamom, fennel, almonds, cumin, and even crème brulee.
A seductive and intoxicating autumn-winter fragrance, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue is the perfume equivalent of that rarity, an outrageously luxurious pair of stiletto heels that fit as comfortably as a glove. Wearing the scent, like wearing the shoes, will turn a woman’s walk into a sinuous glide.
Well, I’ll be wearing the scent with my flat-heeled,
brown-suede boots, if you don’t mind.
Because YES, I picked up my free sample on my way to the
museum, yesterday afternoon.
As a matter of fact, I wish to thank the charming Sylvie Michaud, at HOLT RENFREW – Montreal, for introducing me to the new fragrance and for being such a good sport by agreeing to let me add her pretty face to today’s story. If you’re ever in the neighbourhood, stop by and say hello. She’s cool!
HOLT RENFREW – Montreal is at 1300 Sherbrooke Street West.
Read more about the fragrance, the footwear,
and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Coming soon (if I don’t procrastinate):
WARHOL LIVE — The Exhibit
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