Barneys Rubble

It's not what you think! This is actually an affectionate pun referencing Barney Rubble, and a beautiful bootie by Alaïa that a cave dweller could have worn, were they not always barefoot.

It wouldn't be the first time that Barneys was associated with cartoons. In 2012(!) Mr C and I dropped by during Christmas and Barneys was in the middle of a massive "electric holiday" collaboration with Disney.

(The collaboration was quite unsuccessful, too, as there was an outcry over giving Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck, not to mention Pluto, long, lean fashion-illustration physiques. The related merchandise was unbearably tacky as well.)

But I digress. One touch that DID catch my eye was the tissue paper: it was covered in coloring-book style Disney-esque images of fashion people--Carine Roitfeld, Naomi Campbell, Alber Elbaz, Franca Sozzani, and Pat McGrath, to name a few. I bought something and asked for extra, uncrushed tissue paper. During the rest of the holiday, I colored in the figures and fixed the completed length of tissue paper to my office window, where it still functions as a valence, faded though sections may be.

There was a short cartoon made too, and I share some stills from it here. Imagine these characters outlined in thick black ink, on a white background, just perfect for a set of markers and a few spare hours.