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Levi's, initially caught with its pants down by the denim developments, is now making extremely limited-run jeans, mimicking those in its archive. One style, called Rose Bowl, is copied from a pair of 1933 jeans found at a Rose Bowl flea market. Another, Picket Sign, replicates a pair of '30s jeans down to the paint spatters. Some styles will have manufacturing runs of as few as 50 pairs. Both Levi's and Diesel have opened high-end specialized stores. Diesel will launder its $200 jeans free to maintain the color. New Levi's arrive every six to eight...
...that year, Moon persuaded a BMG Music Publishing executive named Margaret Mittleman to see Lord open for indie-rock stalwarts Sebadoh. Mittleman had just signed a “crazy guy,” in Lord’s words, who was playing weekly shows at a New Hampshire flea market. Although Lord was shocked by Mittleman’s audacity in signing the offbeat singer/songwriter, she was so impressed with the executive’s musical instincts that Lord signed with her as well...
...real wonder of the Mitchell Gold Co. is that its reach has consistently exceeded its limits. For all the ubiquity of those brown leather club chairs, they were an initial disaster. Gold and Williams picked up a pair of 1930s vintage chairs at a flea market outside Paris in 1994. But they were too small for 1990s American legs. When they approached leather wholesalers with their order, Gold and Williams found that American companies were not prepared for them: they could buy white leather or teal leather, but not basic brown. What's more, the key to the chairs...
...next to theater director Jim Simpson at a benefit. Nelson told him of her experience helping a fire captain write eulogies for firemen lost on Sept. 11. Simpson suggested she rework the meeting into a play. The result: The Guys, which Simpson is directing at his downtown theater, the Flea, starring his wife SIGOURNEY WEAVER and BILL MURRAY. The sight of two Hollywood stars sharing a tiny Tribeca stage will undoubtedly draw Manhattan crowds. And when Murray leaves in a few weeks, the play will begin rotating new stars into the roles. Could be a long...
...Child often championed bread machines and other modern inventions, such as the food processor. She also used big props, including a long, flashy “fright knife” and a massive mortar and pestle that her husband Paul once lugged home from a flea market in Paris...