This week's Windowlicker guest editor is Joanna Goddard. Joanna lives in New York, where she edits Bene Magazine, a new magazine about Italian life and style, and writes A Cup of Jo, a Lux Lotus fave focusing on "Art, Photography, Design and the People I Love."
As a magazine editor, I pretty much spend my days researching deliciously windowlicking things that are way out of my price range.
For example, here some daydreams from today...
This morning, walking to work in a torrential downpour, I was craving an umbrella...
By this afternoon, I had caught a cold. At my desk, I envisioned a cool embroidered handkerchief from young artist Shabd Simon-Alexander.
This evening, I was dreading another chilly wet walk home; instead, I imagined driving a convertable in sunny California. My daydreams turned to a vintage Alfo Romeo Spider, like this one driven by our man Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate...
Ahh, windowlicking. All in a day's work.
Hope you stayed dry today. Thanks, Lauren!
Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST.
I used to drive a Spider. Never was there a more fun car. I kept having to get new brakes because I drove it hard. But alas, I don't believe Alfa sells or even officially supports cars in N. America any longer. I had another Alfa too, and it kept catching on fire and otherwise breaking. Beautiful, but high maintanence baby.
Alfa Romeo, by the way, named a car after that movie. The car you see there is called a Spider "Graduate." it was actually a cheaper model.
Posted by: Bud Parr | April 17, 2007 at 04:24 PM
very interesting! thanks for the backstory:)
Posted by: Joanna Goddard | April 17, 2007 at 04:29 PM