A lamp base of strips of multicolor leather with a leather shade is $500, and a polished-pigskin end table is $1,150.
Among those pieces that are still in prototype are Patricia Urquiola's Stool, which unfolds like a flower and can be carried like a handbag; Nendo's lamp, a leather shade backed by LEDs that rolls into a tube and tucks neatly into a leather carrying strap; and Maarten Baas's Beach Chair, a new take on the old-fashioned stadium seat, which looks like an attaché case when folded.
Shot in black and white (with a lot of leather, shades and hair) for no evident reason, the 1970s David is a brutal but soulful London assassin (Neil Nitin Mukesh) embroiled in dramas of romance and revenge with his boss's family.
The Bodysnatchers 7" that was also redone (the third thing released on Savage for those who keep track of these sort of things) sounds like a glorious beef feast; sort of like early Leather Nun minus the leather, shades, and lube.
Leather in shades of purple?
In, instead, are the black turtlenecks, leather jackets, shades, cellphones and stubble of the latest generation of clandestine operatives.
The supposedly horrific vision of the future in "The Matrix," for example, is also undeniably cool; the robots may have won, but the survivors look great in their leather and shades.
A computer generated, virtual reality dark age is battled against by the forces of light, and angels in black leather and shades are pitched against similarly cool demons for the soul of the true world.
Fast-forward a few years, and the building is now home to Bournemouth's first boutique hotel - a tasteful concoction of bay windows, brown leather, earthy shades and arty wooden furniture.
This would appear to be Dylan's philosophy of the time: out was the fresh-faced folkie look, replaced by leather and shades and a spidery, speed-freak demeanour.
Dressed in a leather jacket, shades and with her hair wet, she was praised by Ben Kaye from Consequence of Sound for her "dazzling rendition" of the song.
