Post by bass_echo on Sept 14, 2005 1:03:48 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/nyregion/14bold.html
After rehearsing for the Fashion Rocks concert, artists were led backstage at Radio City Music Hall to the Gift Lounge - which is short for its formal name: Free Stuff for the Last People in the World Who Need Free Stuff Room. Still, the swag was being snatched up as if the performers had suddenly gone on welfare.
ANDY TAYLOR of Duran Duran said he knew from swag and wondered if it was actually factory rejects. The watches, he observed, "always break after two weeks." "What happened to us at the MTV Awards, we got five watches all the same; I think four of them broke," he said. "But then my Grammy Award fell apart the other week, so ... " Still, he began browsing among the merchandise, assisted by a man with a duffel bag. Stopping in front of the watches, he said, "It'll look nice on my daughter."
"I'm never a big freebie person," he said and then chose a watch and left.
Another member of the group, SIMON LE BON, tried on designer eyeglasses. We asked him if it was strange being watched while shopping. He said no, but added in a whisper, "It's not really shopping, is it?"
LOL @ Andy & Si
After rehearsing for the Fashion Rocks concert, artists were led backstage at Radio City Music Hall to the Gift Lounge - which is short for its formal name: Free Stuff for the Last People in the World Who Need Free Stuff Room. Still, the swag was being snatched up as if the performers had suddenly gone on welfare.
ANDY TAYLOR of Duran Duran said he knew from swag and wondered if it was actually factory rejects. The watches, he observed, "always break after two weeks." "What happened to us at the MTV Awards, we got five watches all the same; I think four of them broke," he said. "But then my Grammy Award fell apart the other week, so ... " Still, he began browsing among the merchandise, assisted by a man with a duffel bag. Stopping in front of the watches, he said, "It'll look nice on my daughter."
"I'm never a big freebie person," he said and then chose a watch and left.
Another member of the group, SIMON LE BON, tried on designer eyeglasses. We asked him if it was strange being watched while shopping. He said no, but added in a whisper, "It's not really shopping, is it?"
LOL @ Andy & Si
