About a month ago I was in Opening Ceremony, looking at
all the fine things I can't afford and hoping to run into
Chloe, and I couldn't help
but notice the unusual
chicken-head headdresses on their creepy
super-tall
long-necked mannequins. Then, this weekend I was on Mulberry Street and I
noticed a window display of similar looking pinatas and paper garlands in a store called Creatures of Comfort. It was there that I found out what the deal was when I asked a saleswoman "what's the deal with all these pinatas and stuff?"
Now I'm obsessed with
Confetti System, the artist duo who's been running around making pastel and metallic installations since early 2009 (my guess since that's the oldest "news" update on their website). In addition to Opening Ceremony, their website also lists as clients,
PS1 summer warm up series,
J.Crew, Cole Haan,
Martha Stewart, Paper Magazine, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and
Beach House. It's like the nexus of everything I love plus sparkly pinatas. Here's a
Dwell article about them from a year ago.
You can buy their tasseled garlands and pinatas for between $130 and
$150. So, you know, with prices like those you can just go wild. They
also make simple
silk cord accezories which I think are less interesting
than their confetti; available for around $200 at your usual shopping destinations,
Opening Ceremony and Bergdorf Goodman.
