Part Three: Culture
We are always told that when it comes to gifting it’s the thought that counts, and there’s no greater present than one that makes you think. A set of Penguin Great Loves will remind you about what’s important in the world, of broken hearts, and bareness and rough ocean seas. Carine Roitfeld’s Irreverentwill remind you about what’s not important, but still amazing all the same, like a rosy-lipped Gemma Ward, poised with scissors over her curled eyelashes, or a Le Smoking, caught by Helmut Newton in an endless Parisian street. Poolside with Slim Aarons is the present for summer babies, with their permanently bronzed limbs and their sunflower-like tendency to chase the golden rays.
Keep track of next year’s important dates with a Moleskine 2012 Diary. Ernest Hemingway used to scribble in one over black coffee at Harry’s Bar, watching the Gondolas go by. That’s a gift of real promise. Or, if you want to inspire, try Guy Bourdin Polaroids. Featuring 98 never-published images, Bourdin’s trademark surreal sartorial imagery is captured in that signature, saturated Polaroid colour-scheme, revealing an eerie, broody sexuality and an undercurrent of danger throughout. For the photography buff and the fashion fan alike.
And for when it all gets too much, when the fashion is too cerebral, the stories too tragic, the Roitfeld imagery too, well, French, then it’s time to wrap up The O.C Box Set and tie a big yellow ribbon around the whole thing and call it a day. Give it to the people who watched it with you the first time round, and had a little crush on Seth and an even bigger crush on Marissa’s wardrobe. It might not be that beautiful baby pink 2.55 that she swung from her perfectly manicured fingers, but it’s almost as good. That must be in the next gift guide.
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Clockwise from top, Penguin Great Loves, from $6.89 at The Book Depository, Moleskine Weekly Notebook, €14 (EUR) from Moleskine, Pool Side with Slim Aarons, $58.36 from The Book Depository, The O.C Season 2, $47.99 from JB Hi-fi, Guy Bourdin Polaroids, $39.04 from The Book Depository, Irreverent by Carine Roitfeld, $139.95 from Ariel Books.
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