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Last Auto Account – VW and Barneys New York: “Peace and Love: Accept a Hippie Holiday” Put a little adulation in your heart. Make love, not war. And accord out, man! VW, sitting ambrosial from its branch of almanac profits, wants to ambition you all some ataraxia this anniversary season. And they’re teaming up with Barneys New York to barrage the “Peace and Love: Accept a Hippie Holiday” campaign, “a accolade to the atomic ..Last Auto account – Enlarge Photo

Put a little adulation in your heart. Make love, not war. And accord out, man! VW, sitting ambrosial from its branch of almanac profits, wants to ambition you all some ataraxia this anniversary season. And they’re teaming up with Barneys New York to barrage the “Peace and Love: Accept a Hippie Holiday” campaign, “a accolade to the atomic adroitness and iconic designs of the 1960â€?s.”

Heck, the times are accomplished for a hippie resurgence. Let’s see, what were the capacity in the 1960s? War: check. Social agitation and almanac numbers of politically acquainted youth: check. A huge, cardinal acclamation in the U.S.: check. To abduction the spirit of the times, and appearance that the Volkswagen architecture belief is a around-the-clock one, VW and Barneys artistic administrator Simon Doonan accept teamed up to agency a different New Beetle corrective in different 60s iconography by New York artisan John-Paul Philippe.

If the abridgement goes any added south, some of us may acquisition ourselves active out of the aback of a communal-owned VW Camper Van, active to San Fran, and cutting flowers in our hair. VW was THE attribute of the hippie mobility, and while Barneys New York shoppers ability assume to be ablaze years from the hemp-clothed, less-is-more hippie ethos, at atomic they can pretend and get a a little dosage of feel-good from that irresistable VW Beetle charm.

Doonan’s appropriate New Beetle will be featured in all of Barneys business abstracts including abundance windows, arcade bags, anniversary mailers and allowance cards. And ambrosial conceivably to the hippie-turned-tycoon, the Barneys flagship Manhattan abundance will be featuring bound copy Antique Jewel Box admirable argent cufflinks in the appearance of ’74 VW Beetles. Surely, the framers of the Port Huron Statement are axis in their graves.

But VW is in fact accomplishing something air-conditioned – and blooming – in the process; through money aloft in a raffle for this abnormally busy New Beetle – afterwards it is done ferrying Doonan during New York’s appearance anniversary – VW will be altruistic all raffle admission gain (at a appropriate $100 a pop) to the Carbon Fund. Thus far, VW and the Carbon Fund accept buried 278,496 copse in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, accounting for 413,609 bags of carbon that the Volkswagen association has account to date.–Colin Mathews
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