FASHION FIGHT

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Marc Jacobs vs. The Street Artist, Round 3: The Mannequins Get Involved

On the night of the Met Ball, the Marc Jacobs boutique in SoHo was vandalized by a French street artist named Kidult, just like Supreme, Louis Vuitton, and Hermes had done to them. The next morning, Marc Jacobs made light of it by turning it into a canny social media (and thus: marketing) joke. After that, Marc Jacobs and Company decided to turn it into a $689 T-Shirt, and moreover, turn an indictment of capitalism into an indictment of street art.

Needless to say, Kidult is pissed. Read More

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Barking at Big Money: Tom Otterness Now Takes Shots at Capitalism, Not Dogs

The press release for “The Times Square Show” promised “THE BIGGEST MACHINE ON EARTH,” “ART POLITICS PERFORMANCE + FILM,” “Exotic Events!” and “More Than You Bargained For.” It was June 1980, and the art collective CoLab—about 50 artists, among them Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, Charles and John Ahearn—had taken over a derelict four-story building at Read More

Green Business and Sustainability Management Have Finally Arrived

The $800 billion federal stimulus package is only slowly starting to kick in, and we see the President pushing to accelerate job creation over the summer. The good news is that a recent study of green jobs by the Pew Charitable Trusts indicates that the Administration’s focus on sustainability is sound economics- and the government Read More

Robert Toll Channels Adam Smith, Gordon Gekko

Tomorrow’s Observer will have an extensive interview with luxury home mogul Robert Toll, whose eponymous firm is building in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Here’s Mr. Toll on the housing crisis: The reason capitalism works is that one of the basic instincts of human nature is greed; everybody wants to get bigger, better, more, you know? Read More