Pushing the stiletto to new heights, Paris-based shoe designer Christian Louboutin, with his iconic trademarked red soles, has fuelled the stiletto's erotic, fetishist associations.
In the early 1960s, he contributed to the birth of "pop art" and his work was featured in the famed 1962 exhibition "New Painting of Common Objects". In the 1960s, he painted canvases that have since become iconic, including Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights (1961), Standard Station (1963), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Fire (1965 68).
The men he portrayed contemporary black men who displace conventional figures of status and power in iconic settings proudly wear trademarked garments, with brands and labels providing a vernacular iconography for issues of class, privilege, and aspiration.
A private concessionaire quietly trademarked iconic national park names and is demanding millions of dollars for the use of "Yosemite National Park," "Ahwahnee Hotel," and other names it had no role in creating.
Now Old San Juan, the pastel-and-cobblestone neighborhood from which the larger city spread, is getting serious about preserving its 16th-century trademark, so iconic it is stamped on Puerto Rican license plates and many travel brochures.
Ericsson will acquire the iconic Marconi name and trademark as well as a range of equipment-based operations, leaving the rest of Marconi as a services provider to telecoms companies.
Usually it's the clothes that take centre-stage at these shows, but as models took the runway many appeared to be crying glitter tears with the makeup look for the show created by Wendy Rowe paying tribute to the iconic star and his trademark 'glam rock' look.
Outside, the iconic, historic neighborhood's trademark tree-lined cobblestone streets lead to the city's commercial hubs.
As one of the most prolific stencil graffiti artists Blek has been applying his trademark rats and iconic imagery since New Year's Eve 1981.
