#pairing: calvin and susie

[chameliyun]

Fic Rec Friday - #19

changing it up a bit with a crossover! this one is only on fanfiction . net

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Rec #19: Elemental Flux - Blu Taiger Fandoms: Calvin and Hobbes, Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Pairing: Susie Derkins/Calvin (they're 15) Word count: 177,904 (34 chapters) Summary: Calvin, Susie and Hobbes get randomly isekai'd into the ATLA-verse (Hobbes becomes a real tiger). They figure out how to live there and later meet the Gaang, eventually becoming friends. Other notes: I don't even remember how I found this (probably looking for ATLA crossovers), but it's actually really good. they do get back eventually, through an equally impossible but very Calvin-esque means. it's also been like three years since I read it so I'm a little fuzzy on the details but still

[accessiblecalvinhobbes]

4 Panel Comic - Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Calvin is a young boy often in a striped shirt. He has an imaginary tiger friend named Hobbes. When Calvin is along Hobbes is a tiger who stands on his hind feet and talks only to Calvin. Others see Hobbes as a stuffed tiger toy that Calvin carries with him. Panel 1: Susie, a little girl in Calvin's class has chin length hair and wears a pair of overalls is sitting next to Calvin at lunch. She is opening her lunch box and asks Calvin "Want to trade Sandwiches, Calvin?" Calvin holds his sandwich and replies with his eyes closed "No, I've got my favorite kind. What did you bring?" Panel 2: Susie looks at her sandwich and says "Peanut butter." Calvin leans over and says "I have processed mouse loaf." Panel 3: Susie yells at him "Oh, Gross. That's not really mouse loaf. It looks like egg salad." Calvin has a mouth full of food chewing and is holding out a piece of something that is curly and shakes it at Susie saying "Taste it and see. Here, I think this is a whisker. It's good." Panel 4: Susie has her hands up in front of her blocking Calvin as she says "Forget it. I don't even want my own lunch any more." Calvin leans over and says "You don't? What kind of cookies are those?"

[forthegothicheroine]

Yuletide 2018 Recs

Flakes of gold and a smudge of rose by psychomania (Darkest Dungeon): Audrey the Graverobber is already up to her neck in mud and corpses (literally) when she gets a letter from an old friend offering a job.  It only gets worse, but at least she gets to meet a charming highwayman and an even more charming lawman.  This one was my gift, and it’s so great!

From the diary of Edie Fitcher by smileodon (Dracula): A look into Renfield’s family life and the events that lead up to his institutionalization.  This is a must-read for any Renfield fan, and it fits perfectly into the book’s tone of both heartbreak and redemption.

Lament for the Children of Hamelin by kutsushita (The Pied Piper of Hamelin): You know how the vanishing children of Hamelin seems to have been a real thing, and nobody knows exactly what happened?  This eerie poem examines all the possibilities, each more horrible than the last, and some frighteningly plausible.

Cream Tea at Susie’s by kaz_shirakawa (Calvin and Hobbes):  Susie invites Calvin and Hobbes over for tea.  Calvin refuses.  Hobbes accepts.  He has a great time.  I think I actually gasped out loud in delight at the tea party scene!

The Inbox of Good Tidings by merriman (Fox Teahouse Gmail Theme): Winter has come, and a little fox starts seeing strange messages in the sky.  I have little to say except that this is amazingly cute, like discovering an old children’s book you’d almost forgotten about.

Behind the Shadows by pugglemuggle (What We Do in the Shadows): Conspiracy theories abound on New Zealand true crime websites about all the disappearances in one particular neighborhood- and is The Unholy Masquerade some kind of secret society or what?  A darkly funny reminder of the horror underlying the film’s premise.

Variety Issue 34 1930 by sanguinarily (Singin’ in the Rain): Fan magazines are beginning to report on Cosmo Brown living with Don and Kathy.  For the sake of propriety and appeasing Hayes, the trio must convince those magazines that Cosmo is absolutely not sleeping with one or both of the celebrity couple.

Fire and Ice by dastardlywhiplash (Arthurian Legend): Kay has superpowers and probably shouldn’t.  Bedivere knows this, and loves him.  Downtime between quests for everyone��s favorite pair of squabbling knight buddies.

[thirddeadlysin]

2018 Fic Meme

I was tagged by: @htbthomas

Current word count for the year:

88k, but only about 11k is on ao3

Number of stories posted to ao3:

Total: 138

In 2018: 5

Pairings written for:  

Reylo, Han/Leia

Fandoms I wrote for:

Star Wars, lmao my entire online life is Star Wars these days

Story with the most kudos:

From 2018: Call It Another Lonely Day (Star Wars; Han/Leia) with 72

Overall: Every Day Is a Reminder (Calvin & Hobbes; Calvin/Susie) with 764

Story with the most  bookmarks/story with the most subscriptions:

Bookmarks:

2018: Call It Another Lonely Day with 8

Overall:  Every Day Is a Reminder again with 391

Subscriptions:

lol, for both it’s this teeny Reylo vampire AU that I wasn’t going to write more of buuuut now I think I will: My Own Blood Is Much Too Dangerous with 7

Story I’m most proud of:

I think probably the Calvin & Hobbes fic or this BBT; Penny/Sheldon au because they both came out so close to how they worked in my head. There was also this fic for Crossovering with Veronica Mars and Dana Scully both completely out of their element which turned out totally different from how I thought it would go (and with a weird X-Men stealth crossover, too).

What’s ahead:

Crossovering, probably. Yuletide. I have a story coming out in the Reylo Fan Fiction Anthology that’s a companion piece to the enormous AU WIP I’m hoping to start posting in late August.

Tagging:

This is embarrassing, but I can’t remember who here still writes fic. @lulabo? @tasteslikefail? @hawkethat?

[motivatingspeech]

The Story Of Tommy Hilfiger: 15 Things You Didn't Know About Tommy Hilfiger

  The Story Of Tommy Hilfiger: An American fashion designer and Founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. 

Tommy Hilfiger was born on March 24th, 1951 as Thomas Jacob Hilfiger in Elmira, New York to jeweler Richard and Nurse Virginia. He was the second born of nine children and was raised a Catholic since launching. His namesake brand in 1985, Tommy Hilfiger has become globally renowned as the pioneer of classic American cool style. Inspired by iconic pop culture and American heritage, the designer and his brand are driven by an ever-optimistic vision to break conventions and celebrate individuality. Today, under Hilfiger’s guidance vision and leadership as principal designer, Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world's most recognized lifestyle brands that, shares its inclusive and youthful spirit with consumers worldwide. In fact, for a period of time, the very colors red white and blue were synonymous with the designer. He pioneered courting hip-hop artists in time before it was common practice, extending his brands reach even further.  

15 Things You Didn't Know About Tommy Hilfiger

1. As a child, Tommy Hilfiger Suffered From Dyslexia. In an interview discussing his book American dreamer, he elaborated on his childhood struggle with reading. He says he just had to learn how to read differently. Saying, he cured himself. It’s not like he took medication or went to a specialist. He says, he forced himself to read each word as it presented itself rather than attempting to speed read like an average person. 2.  Tommy Hilfiger Never Went To Design School He began experimenting with design in the early 70s. At the age of 18, he opened a store called the people’s place in Almira, Washington that sold hippie, supplies like bell-bottoms, incense, and Records. Wildly successful at first, Hilfiger soon had a chain of stores and a six-figure income but a downturn in the economy hit his business hard and he filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1977. That setback only motivated him to work harder. He’s quoted as saying: “I forced myself to learn the nuts and bolts of the business and not solely on the creative side. I got hyper-focused on it. I learned how to read a balance sheet, I figured out how to control expenses and figured out a way to build a business on a shoestring budget. In school, they teach you through case studies of other companies…I had my case study.” 3. He was fired from Jordache after only working one year in 1976. Hilfiger fell in love with Susie, an employee at one of his stores. The couple married and moved to Manhattan shortly after the bankruptcy. they were hired as a husband-and-wife design team by the apparel brand 'Jordache' but were fired after only one year Hilfiger developed a reputation as a hard-working, young designer and was considered for jobs at Perry Ellis and Calvin Klein, what he really wanted though was his own label. 4. He got his chance to launch that brand in 1984. Hilfiger was approached by Indian entrepreneur Mohan Moorjani, who was looking for a designer to head a men’s sportswear line. Moorjani allowed Hilfiger to design the label under his own name. Stealing the deal, the pair announced Hilfiger's arrival onto the scene with a blitz marketing campaign that included a bold billboard in New York City's Times Square, announcing Hilfiger as the next big thing in American fashion. In fact, Hilfiger told a reporter in 1986, that he thought he was the next great American designer, the next Ralph Lauren or Calvin Klein. 5. Tommy Hilfiger has an estimated net worth of over 450 million dollars. It was in 1984, when Tommy Hilfiger Corporation was launched. In 1992, the company went public Hilfiger, sales went up and up from 107 million dollars in 1992 to 138 million dollars in 1993 and 227 million in 1994. By the mid-1990s they were close to 500 Tommy Hilfiger sections within department stores. About half the company's revenues came from sales at three big department store chains. As of 2004 the company already had more than 5,400 employees and was earning an annual revenue of more than 1.5 billion dollars. However, over time the company sales began to decline, which led Hilfiger to sell the company to the private investment firm Apax Partners for 1.6 billion dollars. And in March 2010, he sold Tommy Hilfiger Corporation to the owner of Calvin Klein Corporation Phillips van Heusen for three billion dollars. 6. The first-ever Tommy Hilfiger campaign was legendary. The line of Tommy Hilfiger clothing debuted in the fall of 1985 with an ad campaign that featured no clothes but declared that Hilfiger was the designer on par with Ralph Lauren, Perry Ellis, and Calvin Klein. The ads did little more than inserting Hilfiger's name in the pantheon. Yet, this was somehow effective. The brashness of the strategy attracted attention in the fashion industry and caused comment by Johnny Carson and other notable people. The first ads were centered on New York City, using print and outdoor media. By 1987, the Hilfiger line was attracting more national attention with advertisements in people. USA Today, GQ, Sports Illustrated and other publications. The entire advertising budget for Hilfiger clothing was only 1.4 million dollars and ads appeared infrequently. However, they sure did make a splash with double-page spreads and because they featured words, logos or Hilfiger space, and no images of clothes or models they stood out from other fashion advertisements. George Louis, who helped create the ads for the firm Louis, Pitts, GGK, claimed in a March 1988 marketing and media decisions article, that he could not make Hilfiger's clothes look any better than anyone else’s, and therefore the ads sold an idea and not a particular fashion. According to one survey, after only two years of his ads, Hilfiger had succeeded in convincing 68% of sampled New Yorkers to name him as one of the top four or five important designers. 7. He received the title of the menswear designer of the year. In 1995 he received the title of menswear designer of the year, which was conferred by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. His once skeptical peers recognized him as one of the best. Hilfiger made a name for himself by prominently putting his name and logo on his clothes and marketing them to urban youth in a way that other American designers had not done. He harnessed a diverse following of consumers with his oversized, street style sportswear and relaxed all-American style of jeans, khakis, and polos, that began to be taken at the end of the 20th century. And to keep that name and logo prominent, Hilfiger invested a great deal in advertising. And the packaging of the product has surpassed any originality in the clothes themselves. He has raised the bar for fashion merchandising and image branding that has come to define American fashion. 8. He was a mentor to Sean Combs’ brand Sean John. When Hilfiger was asked if he had any regrets of helping Sean Combs’ build his business, only to have it take away market share from him, he said, “I’ve always been a mentor to younger designers and people who have asked me for my advice… I also think what’s meant to be was meant to be... I was happy to help young people, who come to me for advice... many people helped me along the way...” 9. He briefly shortened his brand name to Tommy Hill. This was back when he first established the company, but his business partner at the time, Mohan Murjani, convinced him to stick with his full surname to stand out in the business. Seems like that was great advice to follow. :D 10. He’s been accused of copying Ralph Lauren. From the outset, Hilfiger has been compared to Ralph Lauren. He has been criticized for copying Lauren's preppy style but gearing his signature: red, white and blue styles toward a younger market at more popular prices, Hilfiger, like Lauren has appeared in advertisements for his clothing line. Both men have used the American flag as an important marketing tool. Hilfiger has also replicated Lauren's business model. Even, employing former Lauren executives, to help build Tommy Hilfiger, which Hilfiger with backing from Silas Chow and Lauren's novel enterprises, bought from Murjani in 1989. Chow, then incorporated Tommy Hilfiger in Hong Kong following Lauren’s lead in lifestyle merchandising. Hilfiger expanded his franchise by opening a number of stores, whose interiors reflect the all-American-ness his clothing by signing licensing agreements around the world and by offering a range of lines such as underclothing, accessories, fragrances, home décor, designer jeans, women's wear, children's wear, and a higher-end menswear collection. Hilfiger spent fifteen million dollars in advertising to launch his men's fragrance “Tommy”, in 1995. Which at the time was the most money spent on a campaign for men’s fragrances. 11. The brand suffered major declines in the early 2000s. Around the year 2000, his professional success began to dwindle down as he started suffering from financial troubles. His designs started losing their popularity with the hip-hop artists and sales went down by 75%. Tommy may have rested on his red white and blue laurels for too long at the time, because trendier brands like FUBU, dominated urban fashion. While Tommy’s clothes build bargain bins at Bloomingdale’s and Macy's. Hilfiger tried a host of makeover strategies that didn’t work. A women's sportswear collection failed miserably. Sponsorships of Mary J Blige and Sheryl Crow concerts didn’t sell more Capri pants. And while one of its new fragrances performed well, it didn't turn around the company. Though, Hilfiger’s impressive growth had slowed dramatically from the 1990s. The company remained a popular and well-known brand. Along with traditional advertising, the company chose to tout its image using unique methods, including the purchase of the sponsorship rights to Long Island’s Jones Beach Theater, one of the most successful amphitheaters in the United States. and the sponsorship of a 50-foot sailing vessel, the ship was named the Tommy Hilfiger freedom America yacht and would be racing in the challenging 27,000-mile 9-month endurance alone around race, that would launch in New York City in September of 2002. For Tommy Hilfiger Corp., remaining afloat of the highly competitive ever-changing fashion industry would no doubt prove to be just as challenging. 12. Tommy Hilfiger has partnered with supermodel Gigi Hadid. Now going into their collection the collaboration between these two fashion forces has been a blast. The partnership has been equally beneficial for both of them. Gigi Hadid may have helped Tommy Hilfiger sell more bomber jackets, sweaters, and sailor outfits, but their partnership has apparently also been good for the supermodel. The designer said Hadid's social media following has grown exponentially since joining the brand. Hadid, has more than 48 million followers on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook today, more than twice the number she had before their collaboration. 13. He is leading the charge of inventory lists showrooms. Located at its global headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the digital showroom revolutionizes the sales experience for retailers by offering them a more engaging and seamless buying approach. The interactive system blends collection information, sales tools and brand content in one seamless touchscreen interface. Hilfiger told the Post that we don't have showrooms packed with clothes anymore. 13 of his 40 showrooms across the world are equipped with the IMAX Theater like technology and iPads, which show off his collection to buyers. the centerpiece of the digital showroom is an interactive 1/2 meter by one-meter touchscreen table, set in a sleek walnut frame that connects to a four-meter high wall to a wall grid of ultra-high-definition 4k screens. Customers can digitally view every item in the Tommy Hilfiger sportswear and Hilfiger denim seasonal collections and create custom orders all with product categories laid out across a single screen. They can view head to toe key looks, zoom in with incredible detail to see unique design features and click on a garment for specific information, such as color offerings and size ranges.   14. Tommy Hilfiger is launching clothing for adults with disabilities. After releasing multiple adaptive clothing collections for children last year the brand is adding a range for adults 37 men's and 34 women styles with modifications like Velcro closures, magnetic flies and adjusted leg openings to make it easier for people of all abilities to get dressed. Tommy Hilfiger collaborated with Magna ready and runway of dreams, a nonprofit that works to broaden clothing options for people with disabilities. 15. Tommy Hilfiger now serves as an ambassador for the brand and doesn’t have all the design responsibilities. He's quoted as saying I'm busier than I've ever been and I'm happier than I've ever been. I don't have the burden of all the day-to-day business... I feel that our leadership is better than ever and is as strong as any leadership in the entire industry... Daniel Grider who's the global CEO is leading the charge and believes very strongly in social media, and being on the edge from a technology standpoint that is one of the reasons why we’ve continued global growth it takes a very special person to have that vision. He’s very strong and confident in making decisions that keep us on the edge of technology. A Bonus fact of Tommy Hilfiger: Tommy Hilfiger used to hand out free clothing according to Ralph McDaniel’s, the creator of Video Music Box. Tommy Hilfiger would show up in predominantly black neighborhoods and open up a trunk with clothes and hand them out. It makes the malicious rumor that the designer doesn't like black people, wearing his clothes look even more ridiculous. Hilfiger's shrewd marketing move paid off big-time, as people who receive free clothing only ended up wanting more of it. McDaniel adds that it was like a drug dealer giving you a free hit. Suddenly, people started purchasing their own Hilfiger, including 90s icons, that made the label a staple in the hip-hop community. Hilfiger famously ended up on the backs of 90 stars like Snopp Dogg, Raekwon and more... Read the full article

[surejaya]

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (Calvin and Hobbes #9)

Download : Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (Calvin and Hobbes #9) More Book at: Zaqist Book

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (Calvin and Hobbes #9) by Bill Watterson

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat chronicles the multifarious adventures of this wild child and his faithful, but skeptical, friend. If the best cartoons compel readers to identify themselves within the funny frames, then all who enjoy Calvin and Hobbes are creative, imaginative, and ... bad, bad, bad! Calvin, the irascible little boy with the stuffed tiger who comes to life are a pair bound for trouble. Boring school lessons become occasions for death-defying alien air battles, speeding snow sled descents elicit philosophical discussions on the meaning of life, and Hobbe's natural inclination to pounce on his little friend wreaks havoc on Calvin's sense of security. Calvin's the kid we all wish we"d been. Sassy, imaginative, far more verbal than his parents can manage, Calvin is the quintessential bad boy--and the boy we love to see. He terrorizes little Susie, offers "Candid Opinions" from a neighborhood stand, and questions his parents" authority. "What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?" he demands. Calvin and Hobbes manages to say what needs to be said about childhood and life: "Eww, mud," says Calvin. "Look at this gooshy, dirty, slimy, thick, wet mud... Bleecch... Talk about a kid magnet!"

Download : Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (Calvin and Hobbes #9) More Book at: Zaqist Book

[make-some-manna]

why do you ship Manna?

For their complementary color schemes of course!

But seriously, the short version is: Because of their explosive chemistry.

The long version…

First, every scene about their interaction is pure gold. Each character brings out the most entertaining side of the other. Janna is at her absolute best whenever she’s hitting on Marco, and Marco’s reactions are always an absolute joy to watch.

I don’t think I’m alone in this regard. In fact, I think most people share this opinion; they just don’t know it yet. My evidence? The “look at that tush” comment from the Star and Marco live chat. People went absolutely crazy overthat comment.

But what was the reply that Marco gave Star? “Are you turning into Janna or something?” People like relationships that are more like that of Marco and Janna.

It reminds a bit me of a quote by Bill Watterson about his famous comic strip Calvin and Hobbes:

I suspect Calvin has a mild crush on her that he expresses by trying to annoy her, but Susie is a bit unnerved and put off by Calvin’s weirdness. This encourages Calvin to be even weirder, so it’s a good dynamic. Neither of them quite understand what’s going on, which is probably true of most relationships.

The dynamic between Marco and Janna hits on one of those fundamental dynamics that people just love to watch and want to see more of; it’s a sort of chemistry that can only be described as explosive.

But great chemistry is not the only thing that is great about the pairing. Lots of pairings can have chemistry; the ones that really stand out are those that can resonate with fundamental themes of human relations.

I’ve actually talked a little bit about this before in describing a Unified Manna Model of how the series could have been structured to build toward a Manna ending in a thematic way.

Marco and Janna have an implied past together, which automatically gives their relationship a degree of depth that no others can really match. This, coupled with their familiarity around each other, is why it was not strange at all to see Janna hanging around at Marco’s house, and incredibly easy to imagine her doing so since childhood and well into the future.

From this solid foundation it’s easy to see how the relationship could have been built up. Both of them give off a sense of being unsatisfied with the world around them. Janna has her rebellious attitude that leads her to be a member of the detention community, her obvious interests in magic and the occult, and her cynical belief a night in a graveyard will be more memorable than a high school dance.

Marco too has expressed spiritual dissatisfaction, from his monologue in “Naysaya” to his cynical view on love in “Trickstar.”

Well, your watermelon reminds me of my biggest fear of all– that we’re all alone on this tiny blue marble, floating in the infinite expanse of the universe, ripped from the center, and ejected out into a black void for no reason at all. Players on the stage of the absurd.

Star, it’s not real. The point of Earth magic is to allow yourself to be entertained by pretending that its real, just like love.

It’s very easy to imagine Janna being immediately attracted to someone saying either of those above comments, isn’t it?

The implication is that the two of them could have an understanding based on similar feelings of dissatisfaction and longing for something more. It can be something the two of them share that allows each to understand the other on a deeper level, to grow and develop together, and to build a relationship together.

Unfortunately for us, the series is not actually structured for this line of development. The above lines are intended more for jokes than for a character study of Marco, and Janna’s characterization so far is too limited. The above interpretation of her for instance is only wishful thinking on my part; I don’t pretend it’s anything but me imagining a Janna character with much greater depth than what we’re actually given. (But come on, considering how there are way more popular ships that involve characters that have never even met, surely a little wishful thinking can be forgiven here!)

But if the series had been built for it, the Marco/Janna pairing could have been a great love story about two lonely souls searching for something in an absurd multiverse, only to realize what they were searching for was right there the whole time.

Well, we always have the “Janna is main character” AUs…

[annerodr-blog]

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat - Bill Watterson | Humor |899478753

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat Bill Watterson Genre: Humor Price: $9.99 Publish Date: September 1, 1994 Now available for the first time as an e-book! Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat chronicles another segment of the multifarious adventures of this wild child and his faithful, but skeptical, friend. If the best cartoons compel readers to identify themselves within the funny frames, then all who enjoy Calvin and Hobbes are creative, imaginative, and ... bad, bad, bad! Calvin, the irascible little boy with the stuffed tiger who comes to life are a pair bound for trouble. Boring school lessons become occasions for death-defying alien air battles, speeding snow sled descents elicit philosophical discussions on the meaning of life, and Hobbe's natural inclination to pounce on his little friend wreaks havoc on Calvin's sense of security. Calvin's the kid we all wish we'd been. Sassy, imaginative, far more verbal than his parents can manage, Calvin is the quintessential bad boy -- and the boy we love to see. He terrorizes little Susie, offers "Candid Opinions" from a neighborhood stand, and questions his parents' authority. "What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?" he demands. Calvin and Hobbes manages to say what needs to be said about childhood and life: "Eww, mud," says Calvin. "Look at this gooshy, dirty, slimy, thick, wet mud ... Bleecch ... Talk about a kid magnet!"

[sumpix]

Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip by American cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic", Calvin and Hobbes has evinced broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic interest.

Calvin and Hobbes follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair is named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher. Set in the contemporary, suburban United States, the strip depicts Calvin's frequent flights of fancy and his friendship with Hobbes. It also examines Calvin's relationships with family and classmates, especially the love/hate relationship between him and his classmate, Susie Derkins. Hobbes' dual nature is a defining motif for the strip: to Calvin, Hobbes is a living anthropomorphic tiger; all the other characters see Hobbes as an inanimate stuffed toy. Though the series does not mention specific political figures or current events, it does explore broad issues like environmentalism, public education, philosophical quandaries, and the flaws of opinion polls.

(via Calvin and Hobbes - Wikipedia)

[bluerapunzel103]

Day 19: Lemonade

Calvin and Hobbes and its characters copr. Bill Watterson. All I own is my own writing. Copyright abuse is unintended.

There she was. His disfavored competitor of the weekend. The neighborhood eyesore, the creme de lá creme of smart-alecky-ness. Susie Derkins.

"Hey!" Calvin called across the block.

"What is it." Before she knew it, Calvin was storming her way, having left Hobbes in charge of his own stand.

"You stole my business platform! Don't even try to defend it, you know I'm right!"

"...It's lemonade, Calvin."

"So?" He stood squarely in front of the girl's stand. "Who else could've thought to start a stand next to a yard sale, huh? Who else could've thought of that to boost their sales, huh?"

"You can't be serious..." There were three older kids trying to get Calvin out of the way of forming a line while their moms dug through Mrs. Derkins's old casserole dishes.

"You're lucky I don't sue, Susie. You really are. But just know I'm gonna have you licked in the lemonade business." A knowing grin spread across Calvin's face as he propped himself on her stand, looking her straight in the eyes. "See, I am a seasoned culinary master. I may have only pretended to make mac and cheese once or twice while we played house, but all that practice will turn out beautifully when Mom finally lets me start cooking. I know exactly the right sciences that go into lemonade to make it the one drink no one can resist on a hot summer morning spent hunting for hand-me-downs. I also have a tiger. Do you have a tiger? I don't think so. Practically the perfect mascot for my business endeavors! Who couldn't look at Hobbes and think of me? It's perfect!"

"I can believe it," snorted Susie, "the preschool kids are all over him."

"Yes they a--wait, what?" Calvin whipped his head around to see, to his horror, that a pair of toddlers were yanking Hobbes in opposite directions. The poor tiger writhed in pain, he was calling for his help. That was his IP they were messing with, and their lawyer would not be happy to hear about this. Even if there was a chance of her squashing his hopes and dreams and telling him to go inside, he had to protect Hobbes.

"This isn't over yet!"

"Yeah, sure. Whatever."

[lindyhunt]

How Prairie Dresses Are Redefining Sexy for the Current Era

In his novella Sell Out, American humorist Simon Rich tells the story of Herschel, a humble Jewish man who immigrates to Brooklyn at the turn of the century and accidentally falls into a pickle barrel. A hundred years later, he is fished out of the brine, not having aged a day, by a band of conceptual artists reclaiming industrial warehouse space. After emerging from his salty prison, Herschel must contend with the absurdities of modern Brooklyn, including blogs, Whole Foods and unpaid internships.

Now, one of the most prominent trends of 2018 is enough to make you wonder if you’ve stumbled into your very own pickle-barrel time machine in reverse. Walk down a major street in any sizable city—or scroll through the virtual town square of Instagram—and you’ll notice an influx of women wearing leg-of-mutton sleeves and frilly pie-crust collars that would likely make Herschel breathe a sigh of relief.

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“It’s my party and I’ll be a Quality Street wrapper if I want to…” 🎊🍬🎉🍬🎊🍬🎉🍬🎊🍬🎉 Celebratory copper hues for my birthday with @batshevadress @coach #CoachNY and @chanelofficial

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The pioneer—literally and figuratively—of this new homesteader look is Batsheva Hay, founder of the label Batsheva, whose chintzy creations have earned her a spot on the short list for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award. She began designing dresses after she took one of her decaying vintage Laura Ashley finds to a tailor, who told her it was irreparable. Hay decided to remake the dress, and with a few tweaks to the pattern to update it for the current decade, her nostalgic past-meets-present line was born.

Since then, Hay’s wares have found celeb fans in Natalie Portman, Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps. (Somewhat ironically, Sevigny has donned the prairie look as much in her professional life as in her personal life, playing a Mormon sister wife in Big Love and, most recently, the axe-wielding murderess Lizzie Borden, who dons puffed sleeves that would make Anne Shirley hyperventilate, in the film Lizzie.) Batsheva’s pieces have also become the unofficial uniform of arbiters of downtown New York cool. They’ve been spotted on Vogue’s Sally Singer, on The Wing’s co-founder Audrey Gelman and on Hailey Gates, the host of Viceland’s States of Undress.

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@tira_tira_tira stood on a desk to take this moody picture of me at work. One thing I'm very into is a commitment to getting the shot!

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“Hay’s dresses have a certain familiarity that feels fresh and unpretentious in this post-Celine streetwear climate we’re in right now,” says Jane Aldridge, the Texas-based blogger behind Sea of Shoes, who pairs her prairie dress with furry Chloé slides. Another Batsheva fan, Rachel Tashjian, fashion features editor at Garage magazine, attributes some of the look’s popularity to a rather counterintuitive ease of wear. The dresses might look fussy, but “once you put [one] on, you can almost forget that you’re wearing it—until someone looks at you like ‘Why is that person wearing that crazy dress?’” she says.

“Hay’s dresses have a certain familiarity that feels fresh and unpretentious in this post-Celine streetwear climate we’re in right now.”

At this point, you might find yourself asking “Isn’t it a touch regressive to adopt a style that hearkens back to an era when women were considered glorified property?” Not exactly. Prairie dresses are the epitome of IDGAF fashion; to wear a dress that’s so aggressively old-fashioned it verges on parody is the ultimate nonconformist move. The popularity of prim ankle-grazing styles is concurrent with the rise of modest dressing, which is no longer just the province of religious women who choose to mingle faith with fashion. The current relish for Laura Ingalls Wilder dresses is less a diktat from a villainous cabal of designers conspiring to make women look ridiculous than an autonomous sartorial choice that women (albeit ones who are primarily thin and white) are very much making for themselves.

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Look who I got to hang out with today! @jennymustard

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Which explains why Batsheva isn’t alone. Rather, it’s among a cohort of emerging brands that includes Bode, a menswear line that repurposes antique textiles into pieces like workwear jackets, and Dôen, a design collective whose sweeping floral dresses skew slightly more Laurel Canyon than American Midwest.

Even the big-name designers are hopping on the covered wagon. Coach has paraded high-necked maxi-dresses with a profusion of ruffles down its runways for the past two seasons—dresses that would read as demure had the models wearing them not adopted an attitude of total hostility. The always-ethereal Ulla Johnson showed modest girlish dresses with voluminous sleeves and crochet details for spring, as did Jonathan Simkhai. Even Raf Simons, the prince of aesthetic rigour, was honoured by the American Folk Art Museum earlier this year for his use of quilts in his designs at Calvin Klein.

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Bringing back this beauty from our Spring ‘18 collection very soon! We can’t wait 💙💙💙 #doencollective #comingsoon #soldress

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This widespread embrace of antiquated modes of dress challenges the current vogue for ironic dressing. (See: dad sneakers and Off-White’s dubious quotation marks.) In contrast, glorified prairie dressing is almost painfully earnest. “There’s so much interest and emphasis and excitement and hype around streetwear, and it doesn’t look like that,” says Tashjian. Perhaps the new-found appetite for fuss-budget frills demonstrates women’s desperation for clothing that requires a bit more effort and purpose to carry off.

A PR person once made an offhand comment that Batsheva dresses “are like the official wardrobe of the #MeToo movement,” Hay recounted in an article in Glamour. But it would be incorrect to suggest that correlation equals causation. “I just think women are looking for new directions of how to present themselves in the world,” suggests Naomi Fry, a staff writer at The New Yorker. “Women want to have more options, and [prairie dresses are] now one that looks fresh and cool, young instead of old, hip instead of dowdy.”

It just so happens that this particularly chaste form of dressing—once so retro that one suspected it would be consigned to the metaphorical pickle barrel forever—resonates more with the modern world than anyone could ever have anticipated.

[jessicakehoe]

How Prairie Dresses Are Redefining Sexy for the Current Era

In his novella Sell Out, American humorist Simon Rich tells the story of Herschel, a humble Jewish man who immigrates to Brooklyn at the turn of the century and accidentally falls into a pickle barrel. A hundred years later, he is fished out of the brine, not having aged a day, by a band of conceptual artists reclaiming industrial warehouse space. After emerging from his salty prison, Herschel must contend with the absurdities of modern Brooklyn, including blogs, Whole Foods and unpaid internships.

Now, one of the most prominent trends of 2018 is enough to make you wonder if you’ve stumbled into your very own pickle-barrel time machine in reverse. Walk down a major street in any sizable city—or scroll through the virtual town square of Instagram—and you’ll notice an influx of women wearing leg-of-mutton sleeves and frilly pie-crust collars that would likely make Herschel breathe a sigh of relief.

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“It’s my party and I’ll be a Quality Street wrapper if I want to…” 🎊🍬🎉🍬🎊🍬🎉🍬🎊🍬🎉 Celebratory copper hues for my birthday with @batshevadress @coach #CoachNY and @chanelofficial

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The pioneer—literally and figuratively—of this new homesteader look is Batsheva Hay, founder of the label Batsheva, whose chintzy creations have earned her a spot on the short list for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award. She began designing dresses after she took one of her decaying vintage Laura Ashley finds to a tailor, who told her it was irreparable. Hay decided to remake the dress, and with a few tweaks to the pattern to update it for the current decade, her nostalgic past-meets-present line was born.

Since then, Hay’s wares have found celeb fans in Natalie Portman, Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps. (Somewhat ironically, Sevigny has donned the prairie look as much in her professional life as in her personal life, playing a Mormon sister wife in Big Love and, most recently, the axe-wielding murderess Lizzie Borden, who dons puffed sleeves that would make Anne Shirley hyperventilate, in the film Lizzie.) Batsheva’s pieces have also become the unofficial uniform of arbiters of downtown New York cool. They’ve been spotted on Vogue’s Sally Singer, on The Wing’s co-founder Audrey Gelman and on Hailey Gates, the host of Viceland’s States of Undress.

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@tira_tira_tira stood on a desk to take this moody picture of me at work. One thing I'm very into is a commitment to getting the shot!

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“Hay’s dresses have a certain familiarity that feels fresh and unpretentious in this post-Celine streetwear climate we’re in right now,” says Jane Aldridge, the Texas-based blogger behind Sea of Shoes, who pairs her prairie dress with furry Chloé slides. Another Batsheva fan, Rachel Tashjian, fashion features editor at Garage magazine, attributes some of the look’s popularity to a rather counterintuitive ease of wear. The dresses might look fussy, but “once you put [one] on, you can almost forget that you’re wearing it—until someone looks at you like ‘Why is that person wearing that crazy dress?’” she says.

“Hay’s dresses have a certain familiarity that feels fresh and unpretentious in this post-Celine streetwear climate we’re in right now.”

At this point, you might find yourself asking “Isn’t it a touch regressive to adopt a style that hearkens back to an era when women were considered glorified property?” Not exactly. Prairie dresses are the epitome of IDGAF fashion; to wear a dress that’s so aggressively old-fashioned it verges on parody is the ultimate nonconformist move. The popularity of prim ankle-grazing styles is concurrent with the rise of modest dressing, which is no longer just the province of religious women who choose to mingle faith with fashion. The current relish for Laura Ingalls Wilder dresses is less a diktat from a villainous cabal of designers conspiring to make women look ridiculous than an autonomous sartorial choice that women (albeit ones who are primarily thin and white) are very much making for themselves.

View this post on Instagram

Look who I got to hang out with today! @jennymustard

A post shared by Jane Aldridge (@seaofshoes) on Sep 30, 2018 at 9:59am PDT

Which explains why Batsheva isn’t alone. Rather, it’s among a cohort of emerging brands that includes Bode, a menswear line that repurposes antique textiles into pieces like workwear jackets, and Dôen, a design collective whose sweeping floral dresses skew slightly more Laurel Canyon than American Midwest.

Even the big-name designers are hopping on the covered wagon. Coach has paraded high-necked maxi-dresses with a profusion of ruffles down its runways for the past two seasons—dresses that would read as demure had the models wearing them not adopted an attitude of total hostility. The always-ethereal Ulla Johnson showed modest girlish dresses with voluminous sleeves and crochet details for spring, as did Jonathan Simkhai. Even Raf Simons, the prince of aesthetic rigour, was honoured by the American Folk Art Museum earlier this year for his use of quilts in his designs at Calvin Klein.

View this post on Instagram

Bringing back this beauty from our Spring ‘18 collection very soon! We can’t wait 💙💙💙 #doencollective #comingsoon #soldress

A post shared by D Ô E N / @shopdoen (@shopdoen) on Nov 4, 2018 at 8:26am PST

This widespread embrace of antiquated modes of dress challenges the current vogue for ironic dressing. (See: dad sneakers and Off-White’s dubious quotation marks.) In contrast, glorified prairie dressing is almost painfully earnest. “There’s so much interest and emphasis and excitement and hype around streetwear, and it doesn’t look like that,” says Tashjian. Perhaps the new-found appetite for fuss-budget frills demonstrates women’s desperation for clothing that requires a bit more effort and purpose to carry off.

A PR person once made an offhand comment that Batsheva dresses “are like the official wardrobe of the #MeToo movement,” Hay recounted in an article in Glamour. But it would be incorrect to suggest that correlation equals causation. “I just think women are looking for new directions of how to present themselves in the world,” suggests Naomi Fry, a staff writer at The New Yorker. “Women want to have more options, and [prairie dresses are] now one that looks fresh and cool, young instead of old, hip instead of dowdy.”

It just so happens that this particularly chaste form of dressing—once so retro that one suspected it would be consigned to the metaphorical pickle barrel forever—resonates more with the modern world than anyone could ever have anticipated.

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Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat - Bill Watterson | Humor |899478753

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat Bill Watterson Genre: Humor Price: $9.99 Publish Date: September 1, 1994 Now available for the first time as an e-book! Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat chronicles another segment of the multifarious adventures of this wild child and his faithful, but skeptical, friend. If the best cartoons compel readers to identify themselves within the funny frames, then all who enjoy Calvin and Hobbes are creative, imaginative, and ... bad, bad, bad! Calvin, the irascible little boy with the stuffed tiger who comes to life are a pair bound for trouble. Boring school lessons become occasions for death-defying alien air battles, speeding snow sled descents elicit philosophical discussions on the meaning of life, and Hobbe's natural inclination to pounce on his little friend wreaks havoc on Calvin's sense of security. Calvin's the kid we all wish we'd been. Sassy, imaginative, far more verbal than his parents can manage, Calvin is the quintessential bad boy -- and the boy we love to see. He terrorizes little Susie, offers "Candid Opinions" from a neighborhood stand, and questions his parents' authority. "What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?" he demands. Calvin and Hobbes manages to say what needs to be said about childhood and life: "Eww, mud," says Calvin. "Look at this gooshy, dirty, slimy, thick, wet mud ... Bleecch ... Talk about a kid magnet!"

[writeprivledge-blog]

The More Things Change

Calvin sat in the vinyl booth, grasping for his mug of coffee. His gaze was on a continuous shift. It went from the door to the women’s room, down to the watch on his wrist, and up to the flat screen in the corner that had on the news. Two talking heads roared at one another but the sound was off and the closed captions hadn’t been turned on. For thirty seconds he tried to read their lips but gave up and looked back to the women’s room entrance. His gaze returned to his table where Susie had materialized. His smile must have shown something he himself hadn’t registered yet.

“Oh come on Calvin, I wouldn’t just ditch you. I have enough tact to at least end this in a polite way.”

Calvin attempted to smile again.

“I wasn’t nervous you’d leave without saying anything! I just have an appointment I need to get to soon, and I didn’t want to leave without saying goodbye!”

Susie’s eyes rolled

“Sure Cal, whatever you say.”

They sat in silence for a moment. Susie checking her phone and Calvin stirring his lukewarm coffee with a spoon.

“It’s surreal to be sharing this booth with you again, Susie.” He said to her, the sentence laced with memories of Friday nights spent swapping horror stories about their week at work over oily coffee and heat lamp rejects. Then necking a fifth of Fireball in the parking lot before letting the night take them wherever it would.

A hint of a smile crept up Susie’s face and before she could hide it Calvin was in pursuit.

“Running into you last week at Kara’s party was the best thing that’s happened to me all this year.”

Susie, exasperated, if not somewhat flattered, responded,

“Calvin, Kara’s party was a New Year's party. “This year” consists of seven days.”

“And it was a year without you before that party, Sue. I’ve grown a lot in our time apart, but seeing you resurfaced everything I love about you. I had to see you again. To show you who I am now.”

Susie squirmed in her booth.

“Calvin…”

“Susie I’ve improved everything about me this last year for you! I started working out again. I found a new job that I love and pays me what I deserve! I got rid of that shitty old sofa that you couldn’t stand! I even got a new car!”

Pulling out his phone, there was a background of himself posing next to a brand new 2017 Taurus at the dealership, beaming as he leaned against it, arms crossed and tucked up into his armpits.

“Do you have any other photos of it?”

He was taken aback.

“What?”

“Do you have any other photos of it besides you standing next to it in the lot at the dealership? Anyone can take a photo next to a car at a dealership.”

The reality of what she had said sunk in gradually.

“...Susie, I’m not lying to you. That car is parked outside the diner as we speak.”

Susie put her money down on the table and got up slowly.

“I’m sure it is Cal. It was good to see you, but maybe we shouldn’t do this again.”

Calvin sat at the booth stunned.

By the time he had recovered, Susie was outside looking for her car in the lot. He dropped his cash on the table haphazardly, sprinting out of the restaurant after her.

“Sue! Sue! Please wait!”

Susie turned toward him, her face slowly crumbling as she locked eyes with him.

“Cal, please, stop. You’re not making this any easier for me.”

“Just follow me to my car. Let me prove to you I’m not full of shit.”

Susie spoke softly.

“Calvin… It’s not about the car… it’s about…”

He took her hand.

“Please, I’m just parked across the shopping center.”

Before she could retort, Calvin was tugging her along, determined to show her the truth.

They walked to where Calvin had parked his car.

But there was no car.

“It was right there! I swear to God it was right fucking there! Someone stole my car!”

His neck craning back and forth viciously seeking out the perpetrators.

Giving up his search he turned to look at Susie.

Her face was pressed into her sleeve. Pulling it away, she couldn’t hide the remains of hot tears and a pair of pink irritated eyes.

“Fuck you, Calvin. Why couldn’t you of ended today like it was? I was content to believe whatever half baked conjurings about your “new life” you’ve been feeding Kara for her to regurgitate to me after you’ve left the room.”

Calvin’s mouth hung agape and sputtered as he tried to say something, anything.

Susie interjected.

“Yes, I know you’ve been talking yourself up to her. I’m not blind, deaf, and dumb though I guess you assumed I was with some of the nonsense you’ve been boasting. I accepted your invitation here because despite all of this, somehow, I still hold something that resembles love for you. But you couldn’t even pretend to be honest with me for an afternoon. You had to drag me back to my special spot in the middle of your little web of lies and bullshit. Fuck You, Calvin.”

She walked away from him, the clack of her heels across the concrete was deafening. He watched as she slammed her car door and sped off, too dumbfounded to say anything else.

Calvin searched the lot again and a sign placed on the adjacent light post that he hadn’t seen up to this point was now a beacon:

Whole Food’s Manager Parking. All Offenders Will Be Towed to Tony’s Towing Yard.

Calvin was in a trance the four mile walk to Tony’s.

When he arrived, he paid the two hundred and fifty dollar fine and drove his Taurus home in a daze.

When he got to his apartment he struggled with the door before collapsing into a heap onto that shitty old sofa.

[elizabethrus-blog]

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat - Bill Watterson | Humor |899478753

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat Bill Watterson Genre: Humor Price: $9.99 Publish Date: September 1, 1994 Now available for the first time as an e-book! Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat chronicles another segment of the multifarious adventures of this wild child and his faithful, but skeptical, friend. If the best cartoons compel readers to identify themselves within the funny frames, then all who enjoy Calvin and Hobbes are creative, imaginative, and ... bad, bad, bad! Calvin, the irascible little boy with the stuffed tiger who comes to life are a pair bound for trouble. Boring school lessons become occasions for death-defying alien air battles, speeding snow sled descents elicit philosophical discussions on the meaning of life, and Hobbe's natural inclination to pounce on his little friend wreaks havoc on Calvin's sense of security. Calvin's the kid we all wish we'd been. Sassy, imaginative, far more verbal than his parents can manage, Calvin is the quintessential bad boy -- and the boy we love to see. He terrorizes little Susie, offers "Candid Opinions" from a neighborhood stand, and questions his parents' authority. "What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?" he demands. Calvin and Hobbes manages to say what needs to be said about childhood and life: "Eww, mud," says Calvin. "Look at this gooshy, dirty, slimy, thick, wet mud ... Bleecch ... Talk about a kid magnet!"

[motivatingspeech]

The Story Of Tommy Hilfiger: 15 Things You Didn't Know About Tommy Hilfiger

  The Story Of Tommy Hilfiger: An American fashion designer and Founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. 

Tommy Hilfiger was born on March 24th, 1951 as Thomas Jacob Hilfiger in Elmira, New York to jeweler Richard and Nurse Virginia. He was the second born of nine children and was raised a Catholic since launching. His namesake brand in 1985, Tommy Hilfiger has become globally renowned as the pioneer of classic American cool style. Inspired by iconic pop culture and American heritage, the designer and his brand are driven by an ever-optimistic vision to break conventions and celebrate individuality. Today, under Hilfiger’s guidance vision and leadership as principal designer, Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world's most recognized lifestyle brands that, shares its inclusive and youthful spirit with consumers worldwide. In fact, for a period of time, the very colors red white and blue were synonymous with the designer. He pioneered courting hip-hop artists in time before it was common practice, extending his brands reach even further.  

15 Things You Didn't Know About Tommy Hilfiger

1. As a child, Tommy Hilfiger Suffered From Dyslexia. In an interview discussing his book American dreamer, he elaborated on his childhood struggle with reading. He says he just had to learn how to read differently. Saying, he cured himself. It’s not like he took medication or went to a specialist. He says, he forced himself to read each word as it presented itself rather than attempting to speed read like an average person. 2. Tommy Hilfiger Never Went To Design School He began experimenting with design in the early 70s. At the age of 18, he opened a store called the people’s place in Almira, Washington that sold hippie, supplies like bell-bottoms, incense, and Records. Wildly successful at first, Hilfiger soon had a chain of stores and a six-figure income but a downturn in the economy hit his business hard and he filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1977. That setback only motivated him to work harder. He’s quoted as saying: “I forced myself to learn the nuts and bolts of the business and not solely on the creative side. I got hyper-focused on it. I learned how to read a balance sheet, I figured out how to control expenses and figured out a way to build a business on a shoestring budget. In school, they teach you through case studies of other companies…I had my case study.” 3. He was fired from Jordache after only working one year in 1976. Hilfiger fell in love with Susie, an employee at one of his stores. The couple married and moved to Manhattan shortly after the bankruptcy. they were hired as a husband-and-wife design team by the apparel brand 'Jordache' but were fired after only one year Hilfiger developed a reputation as a hard-working, young designer and was considered for jobs at Perry Ellis and Calvin Klein, what he really wanted though was his own label. 4. He got his chance to launch that brand in 1984. Hilfiger was approached by Indian entrepreneur Mohan Moorjani, who was looking for a designer to head a men’s sportswear line. Moorjani allowed Hilfiger to design the label under his own name. Stealing the deal, the pair announced Hilfiger's arrival onto the scene with a blitz marketing campaign that included a bold billboard in New York City's Times Square, announcing Hilfiger as the next big thing in American fashion. In fact, Hilfiger told a reporter in 1986, that he thought he was the next great American designer, the next Ralph Lauren or Calvin Klein. 5. Tommy Hilfiger has an estimated net worth of over 450 million dollars. It was in 1984, when Tommy Hilfiger Corporation was launched. In 1992, the company went public Hilfiger, sales went up and up from 107 million dollars in 1992 to 138 million dollars in 1993 and 227 million in 1994. By the mid-1990s they were close to 500 Tommy Hilfiger sections within department stores. About half the company's revenues came from sales at three big department store chains. As of 2004 the company already had more than 5,400 employees and was earning an annual revenue of more than 1.5 billion dollars. However, over time the company sales began to decline, which led Hilfiger to sell the company to the private investment firm Apax Partners for 1.6 billion dollars. And in March 2010, he sold Tommy Hilfiger Corporation to the owner of Calvin Klein Corporation Phillips van Heusen for three billion dollars. 6. The first-ever Tommy Hilfiger campaign was legendary. The line of Tommy Hilfiger clothing debuted in the fall of 1985 with an ad campaign that featured no clothes but declared that Hilfiger was the designer on par with Ralph Lauren, Perry Ellis, and Calvin Klein. The ads did little more than inserting Hilfiger's name in the pantheon. Yet, this was somehow effective. The brashness of the strategy attracted attention in the fashion industry and caused comment by Johnny Carson and other notable people. The first ads were centered on New York City, using print and outdoor media. By 1987, the Hilfiger line was attracting more national attention with advertisements in people. USA Today, GQ, Sports Illustrated and other publications. The entire advertising budget for Hilfiger clothing was only 1.4 million dollars and ads appeared infrequently. However, they sure did make a splash with double-page spreads and because they featured words, logos or Hilfiger space, and no images of clothes or models they stood out from other fashion advertisements. George Louis, who helped create the ads for the firm Louis, Pitts, GGK, claimed in a March 1988 marketing and media decisions article, that he could not make Hilfiger's clothes look any better than anyone else’s, and therefore the ads sold an idea and not a particular fashion. According to one survey, after only two years of his ads, Hilfiger had succeeded in convincing 68% of sampled New Yorkers to name him as one of the top four or five important designers. 7. He received the title of the menswear designer of the year. In 1995 he received the title of menswear designer of the year, which was conferred by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. His once skeptical peers recognized him as one of the best. Hilfiger made a name for himself by prominently putting his name and logo on his clothes and marketing them to urban youth in a way that other American designers had not done. He harnessed a diverse following of consumers with his oversized, street style sportswear and relaxed all-American style of jeans, khakis, and polos, that began to be taken at the end of the 20th century. And to keep that name and logo prominent, Hilfiger invested a great deal in advertising. And the packaging of the product has surpassed any originality in the clothes themselves. He has raised the bar for fashion merchandising and image branding that has come to define American fashion. 8. He was a mentor to Sean Combs’ brand Sean John. When Hilfiger was asked if he had any regrets of helping Sean Combs’ build his business, only to have it take away market share from him, he said, “I’ve always been a mentor to younger designers and people who have asked me for my advice… I also think what’s meant to be was meant to be... I was happy to help young people, who come to me for advice... many people helped me along the way...” 9. He briefly shortened his brand name to Tommy Hill. This was back when he first established the company, but his business partner at the time, Mohan Murjani, convinced him to stick with his full surname to stand out in the business. Seems like that was great advice to follow. :D 10. He’s been accused of copying Ralph Lauren. From the outset, Hilfiger has been compared to Ralph Lauren. He has been criticized for copying Lauren's preppy style but gearing his signature: red, white and blue styles toward a younger market at more popular prices, Hilfiger, like Lauren has appeared in advertisements for his clothing line. Both men have used the American flag as an important marketing tool. Hilfiger has also replicated Lauren's business model. Even, employing former Lauren executives, to help build Tommy Hilfiger, which Hilfiger with backing from Silas Chow and Lauren's novel enterprises, bought from Murjani in 1989. Chow, then incorporated Tommy Hilfiger in Hong Kong following Lauren’s lead in lifestyle merchandising. Hilfiger expanded his franchise by opening a number of stores, whose interiors reflect the all-American-ness his clothing by signing licensing agreements around the world and by offering a range of lines such as underclothing, accessories, fragrances, home décor, designer jeans, women's wear, children's wear, and a higher-end menswear collection. Hilfiger spent fifteen million dollars in advertising to launch his men's fragrance “Tommy”, in 1995. Which at the time was the most money spent on a campaign for men’s fragrances. 11. The brand suffered major declines in the early 2000s. Around the year 2000, his professional success began to dwindle down as he started suffering from financial troubles. His designs started losing their popularity with the hip-hop artists and sales went down by 75%. Tommy may have rested on his red white and blue laurels for too long at the time, because trendier brands like FUBU, dominated urban fashion. While Tommy’s clothes build bargain bins at Bloomingdale’s and Macy's. Hilfiger tried a host of makeover strategies that didn’t work. A women's sportswear collection failed miserably. Sponsorships of Mary J Blige and Sheryl Crow concerts didn’t sell more Capri pants. And while one of its new fragrances performed well, it didn't turn around the company. Though, Hilfiger’s impressive growth had slowed dramatically from the 1990s. The company remained a popular and well-known brand. Along with traditional advertising, the company chose to tout its image using unique methods, including the purchase of the sponsorship rights to Long Island’s Jones Beach Theater, one of the most successful amphitheaters in the United States. and the sponsorship of a 50-foot sailing vessel, the ship was named the Tommy Hilfiger freedom America yacht and would be racing in the challenging 27,000-mile 9-month endurance alone around race, that would launch in New York City in September of 2002. For Tommy Hilfiger Corp., remaining afloat of the highly competitive ever-changing fashion industry would no doubt prove to be just as challenging. 12. Tommy Hilfiger has partnered with supermodel Gigi Hadid. Now going into their collection the collaboration between these two fashion forces has been a blast. The partnership has been equally beneficial for both of them. Gigi Hadid may have helped Tommy Hilfiger sell more bomber jackets, sweaters, and sailor outfits, but their partnership has apparently also been good for the supermodel. The designer said Hadid's social media following has grown exponentially since joining the brand. Hadid, has more than 48 million followers on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook today, more than twice the number she had before their collaboration. 13. He is leading the charge of inventory lists showrooms. Located at its global headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the digital showroom revolutionizes the sales experience for retailers by offering them a more engaging and seamless buying approach. The interactive system blends collection information, sales tools and brand content in one seamless touchscreen interface. Hilfiger told the Post that we don't have showrooms packed with clothes anymore. 13 of his 40 showrooms across the world are equipped with the IMAX Theater like technology and iPads, which show off his collection to buyers. The centerpiece of the digital showroom is an interactive 0.5 m x 1 m touchscreen table, set in a sleek walnut frame that connects to a four-meter high wall to a wall grid of ultra-high-definition 4k screens. Customers can digitally view every item in the Tommy Hilfiger sportswear and Hilfiger denim seasonal collections and create custom orders all with product categories laid out across a single screen. They can view head to toe key looks, zoom in with incredible detail to see unique design features and click on a garment for specific information, such as color offerings and size ranges.   14. Tommy Hilfiger is launching clothing for adults with disabilities. After releasing multiple adaptive clothing collections for children last year the brand is adding a range for adults 37 men's and 34 women styles with modifications like Velcro closures, magnetic flies and adjusted leg openings to make it easier for people of all abilities to get dressed. Tommy Hilfiger collaborated with Magna ready and runway of dreams, a nonprofit that works to broaden clothing options for people with disabilities. 15. Tommy Hilfiger now serves as an ambassador for the brand and doesn’t have all the design responsibilities. He's quoted as saying I'm busier than I've ever been and I'm happier than I've ever been. I don't have the burden of all the day-to-day business... I feel that our leadership is better than ever and is as strong as any leadership in the entire industry... Daniel Grider who's the global CEO is leading the charge and believes very strongly in social media, and being on the edge from a technology standpoint that is one of the reasons why we’ve continued global growth it takes a very special person to have that vision. He’s very strong and confident in making decisions that keep us on the edge of technology. A Bonus fact of Tommy Hilfiger: Tommy Hilfiger used to hand out free clothing according to Ralph McDaniel’s, the creator of Video Music Box. Tommy Hilfiger would show up in predominantly black neighborhoods and open up a trunk with clothes and hand them out. It makes the malicious rumor that the designer doesn't like black people, wearing his clothes look even more ridiculous. Hilfiger's shrewd marketing move paid off big-time, as people who receive free clothing only ended up wanting more of it. McDaniel adds that it was like a drug dealer giving you a free hit. Suddenly, people started purchasing their own Hilfiger, including 90s icons, that made the label a staple in the hip-hop community. Hilfiger famously ended up on the backs of 90 stars like Snopp Dogg, Raekwon and more... Read the full article