Niche line Bond no. 9 has launched Andy Warhol by Bond no. 9, the sixth fragrance in their Andy Warhol series.
…the time was right for an eau de parfum that’s an ode to Warhol himself…
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Bond no. 9 Andy Warhol ~ new fragrance
Bond no. 9 Andy Warhol Montauk ~ new fragrance
Bond no. 9 will launch the latest fragrance in the Andy Warhol series in late May. Andy Warhol Montauk is a unisex scent inspired by the Long Island beach town that was a favorite of Warhol’s…
Bond no. 9 Andy Warhol Success is a Job in New York ~ new fragrance
Bond no. 9 will launch Andy Warhol Success is a Job in New York, a new fragrance inspired by cash and named for an article Warhol illustrated for Glamour magazine in the 1950s*. Success is a Job in New York is the fourth fragrance in the Bond no. 9 Andy Warhol series, which already includes Andy Warhol Silver Factory, Andy Warhol Union Square and Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2008 part 2
For the (wealthy) Andy Warhol fanatic, Bond no. 9's “Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue Shoe Extravaganza….A larger-than-life-size limited-edition shoe, containing three bottles of Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue – the latest in Bond No. 9’s series of Warhol perfumes”. Artist Joseph Pastor has created a 3D replica of a drawing from Warhol's A La Recherche du Shoe Perdu, and Bond added the bottles. $1300 at Bond no. 9 or Saks Fifth Avenue…
Bond no. 9 Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue ~ perfume review
It’s Andy Warhol’s birthday today (he would have been 80 this year), and Bond no. 9 is marking the occasion with the launch of the third fragrance in their Andy Warhol series, Lexington Avenue (prior entries: Silver Factory and Union Square).
The Lexington Avenue bottle might be my favorite of this series so far. It’s decorated with shoes because Warhol drew shoes, lots of them, early in his career; for a time in the 1950s he was on retainer as an illustrator for the I. Miller Shoe Company. The name of the fragrance comes from an apartment at 242 Lexington Avenue in Murray Hill that Warhol sublet from a friend in 1953.
How the Lexington Avenue juice resonates with the shoes (or with Warhol, although he reportedly loved perfume and was buried with a bottle of Estee Lauder Beautiful) is lost on me…
