never went beyond the concept stage. it was named the 021c after the pantone number for the orange tone that is one of the designer’s favorite colors. he was especially sorry that ford didn’t ask him to turn the design into something that could have been brought to market, since cars...
he had decided that the best way to photograph the items in the archive—the 400 canceled checks, the ledgers and memos and letters—was to place them against a backdrop of rose petals. so he was spending his mornings at the los angeles flower market buying roses, like a hopeful suitor....
gossip is now used to sell advertising, and to the likes of coach and bloomingdale's, no less-a far cry from the days when the post was considered so downmarket that, according to a spurious but widely circulated story, bloomingdale's chief marvin traub once told murdoch, "your readers ...