Today's poll was suggested by Becca, who wants to talk about perfume bottles: the weirdest, wackiest, ugliest, prettiest, most stately, whatever! Nominate your favorites (or least favorites), and in honor of Marc Jacobs, I'd like to add two more categories: good tacky and bad tacky.
A side note: circumstances prevented me from posting the Monday Mail yesterday, but look for it tomorrow.
Note: image is Réplique under glass [cropped] by Jean-François Chénier at flickr; some rights reserved.
Pierre Dinand is a living legend in the world of perfume packaging and design. His bottle creations are too numerous to list, but here are just a few examples: Givenchy Ysatis, Ivoire de Balmain, Tiffany, Coriandre, Caron Nocturnes, Lancome Magie Noire, and Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. Those of you who drooled over the recent special edition bottle of Mûre et Musc for L’Artisan — that is his design. So was the lovely green fig bottle for Premier Figuier that was released last year. On his website, you can read a brief biography, learn about the technical aspects of bottle design, find a list of some of the perfume bottles he designed, and see his recent sculpture work…