Get the “Mad Men” Look at Brooks Brothers for just $998
Mad Men is a cool, hip and happening show set on New York’s Madison Avenue in the 1960’s.
On Mad Men, a bunch of 20 somethings and 30 somethings work in the Ad Agency biz creating ads and sleeping around with some nubile young secretaries as well as the wives of co-workers.
Together – these ad agency employees work and drink scotch ( way before noon) at the same time and don’t seem to feel the need to take a nap afterwards.
“Mad Men” mocks and celebrates forbidden vices, the drinking, smoking and promiscuity that in the advertising business of the 1960s flowed heedlessly, without health warnings or any of the sometimes tedious correctness that we must endure today.
From the start, the show has mined hindsight for wicked humor: a child playing dangerously with a dry-cleaning bag is chided only for messing up the clothes inside; a pastoral family picnic ends with the mom tossing the entire basket of trash onto lush, pristine park grounds; the presidential candidate Richard Millhouse Nixon is marketed as a young, handsome Navy hero.
Mad Men is SEO Marketing expert Leon Altman’s – of Altman Communications in New York – favorite show because I suspect he misses the hey- day of ad agencies when some of the stuff you see on this drama actually happened. Leon worked for some of the big New York agencies like Young and Rubicam. I’ll just bet that 27- year- old Leon Altman was every bit as cool as the lead man in this show played by Jon Hamm.
The Merchant Maven
Here’s one of thescenes from Mad Men.
Brooks Brothers Offers Limited-Edition Mad Men Suit
-By Rod Stafford Hagwood, Fashion Columnist Sun Sentinel
November 6, 2009
Brooks Brothers (who else when you think about it?) is launching a limited-edition Mad Men suit.
The tailored two-piece was designed by the AMC series’ Emmy-winning costume designer, Janie Bryant, and will retail for $998. So you might want to pay for it with your Amex Card! No Spending Limit.
The silhouette is as razor-sharp and trim as the early 1960s-era looks favored by the TV show’s characters Don Draper (played by Jon Hamm) and Roger Sterling (John Slattery).
The look is interpreted in a grey sharkskin fabric with a two-button jacket and narrow lapels, diagonal pockets and side vents.
Founded in 1818, Brooks Brothers has been collaborating with Bryant since Mad Men’s start in 2007.
“Brooks Brothers understood what we were trying to accomplish aesthetically and historically with Mad Men,” Bryant said in a news release. “It is critical to [series creator] Matthew Weiner that everything be accurate and authentic. Brooks Brothers has been supportive of the show since the beginning and it was an amazing opportunity to create a suit for such a legendary company.”
There are only 250 suits available online at BrooksBrothers.com.
Look for Winter Kate next year
Nicole Richie is still giving birth. First it was a baby boy last month, now it’s a clothing line.
The brand, Winter Kate, is expected to hit in February. Already Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Intermix have signed on.
So far, we know the 37-piece line reflects Richie’s Boho-chic template with slip dresses, kimono-sleeve maxi dresses, leather jackets, asymmetrical short dresses, vests, tunic tops and bed jackets with a vintage look.
This isn’t Richie’s first foray into fashion. She has an accessories line, House of Harlow 1960, and a maternity line, Nicole Richie for A Pea in the Pod.
Get calendar for a cause
If you’ve never attended a White Party Week Miami (Nov. 25-30), you owe it to yourself to check it out. Although the epidermally-modest and easy-blushers might want to check out the scorching-hot calendar instead.
The Boys & The Beach 2010 Calendar, by photographer Max-Arthur Mantle, features high-profile male models on pristine SoFla sands. The calendar costs $20 – with part of the proceeds going to Care Resource — and can be ordered at MaxArthurMantle.com.
Of course, if you’re easily shocked by preening male bodies, then do a great deal of research before committing to any specific event in the long list of parties produced by Care Resource to benefit men, women and children affected or infected by HIV/AIDS. Go to whiteparty.org for more info.
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