"All of the employees had tattoos and safety pin earrings and ripped T-shirts.
The show itself was full of plaid and Sex Pistols-y safety pin earrings and bomber jackets and boots.
She wore a ruffled tulle-and-chiffon tunic dress, leopard-print high heels, and a gold safety-pin earring.
A girl with spikily chopped hair and a safety-pin earring, a girl who was nonetheless Annagret.
"The big surprise of the show is that we're all going to be in it, too, stuffed," said Mr. Herrón, who wears a safety-pin earring and a pair of jet-black shades that never leave his face.
Dury, though, was initially less than generous towards the emerging punk figureheads, often castigating Johnny Rotten for stealing his self-styled razor-blade-on-a-safety-pin earring and that hunched-over, amphetamine-eyed microphone stance.
We started with 12 pieces: brooches, rings, pins, earrings.
For a while after that it was punk heaven, with Mohawk haircuts and safety-pin earrings the look of choice.
Other contenders were Super Bowl hats, pins, earrings, coffee mugs, ashtrays, key chains, and diaper bags, and, of course, the Super Bowl sweatshirt, with appliqued lettering, which cost $79.98... Everything about the Super Bowl is extra large--the parties, the prices, the buildup, the letdown.
Alexis Bittar renders delicate chefs-d'oeuvre from industrial materials, and his spring collection of pins, earrings, bracelets and rings adds semiprecious stones to his longtime material of choice, Lucite.
