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…
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…
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…
Bond no. 9 will release the third fragrance in their Andy Warhol series, Lexington Avenue, in August. The scent is named for an apartment in Murray Hill that Warhol sublet from a friend in 1953.
The floral woody chypre scent was developed by perfumer Claude Dir; the notes include blue cypress, fennel, cardamom, pink peony, iris, crème brûlée, pimento berry, patchouli and sandalwood…
Bond no. 9's Andy Warhol Union Square, due for launch in March, will be the second of a projected series of twelve fragrances under an agreement with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (the first was Andy Warhol Silver Factory). The packaging features…
…10 different bottles, each with a slightly different version of the flower print based on original silk screens of the “Flowers” print. For avid collectors and hard-core Warhol fanatics, the complete portfolio of 10 100-ml. bottles will be offered in a box for $1,500…
