SOLD OUT
For 25 years, no one in their right mind cared much about a bunch of hoolah-hooping hippies who gathered in the desert to burn, amongst other things, a massive wooden man. (Maybe the general public's interest was piqued when Nicolas Cage came out with that eerily-named Wicker Man, but who could last through that movie?)
But now, as in all times of political unrest and economic uncertainty, the counter-culture is increasingly appealing. Everyone wants to symbolically immolate "the man," that corporate, capitalistic entity repressing their lives (yet keep those welfare and unemployment checks coming, please, I do only work one day a week, off the books...)
In a psychedelic rainstorm in New York City, we made our way to Target's Liberty of London popup on the edge of Bryant Park, only to discover that this hyped-up venue had been closed a day early due to product outage. A tribute to the fashionable, '60s-meets-down-home patterns and textures, the popup expressed a trend in modern expression, selling out of everything from the popular, low-priced shirt dresses to paisley piggybanks we thought would fit nicely on our coffee tables.
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