I Need More, the rock 'n' roll boutique that Jimmy Webb owned and operated on Orchard Street, will close next month after three-plus years the shop announced this week.
In what turned out to be a last hurrah in late February, the shop hosted a “Footprints in February” celebration, in which Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop put their handprints, footprints and autographs in concrete on the floor of I Need More...
Jimmy Webb was a very special person and the fashion industry especially should make the effort to properly remember him and his contributions.
I hope that someone is taking special care specifically to preserve Jimmy's amazing personal garments, which were mostly custom, definitely magical, and should be documented and hopefully exhibited one day.
So very true and I hope whoever was bequeathed his belongings will share them with the public one day - an exhibit would be amazing. Not to mention that beautiful painting of him that hung in the store.
This is such a bummer. Losing Jimmy was heartbreaking, and now seeing his creation come to a close hurts all over again. There's just no replacement for what we've lost.
I had not thought of what you proposed until I had read what you said, but I too truly hope someone smart preserves his personal wardrobe in some regard.
Maybe FIT or some other entity that has a archive of important garments can assist, but Jimmy's legacy definitely deserves to be handled with care and respect, as a figure in the fashion industry and as an important New Yorker.
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Jimmy Webb was a very special person and the fashion industry especially should make the effort to properly remember him and his contributions.
ReplyDeleteI hope that someone is taking special care specifically to preserve Jimmy's amazing personal garments, which were mostly custom, definitely magical, and should be documented and hopefully exhibited one day.
RIP Jimmy <3
So very true and I hope whoever was bequeathed his belongings will share them with the public one day - an exhibit would be amazing. Not to mention that beautiful painting of him that hung in the store.
DeleteThis is such a bummer. Losing Jimmy was heartbreaking, and now seeing his creation come to a close hurts all over again. There's just no replacement for what we've lost.
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ReplyDeleteI had not thought of what you proposed until I had read what you said, but I too truly hope someone smart preserves his personal wardrobe in some regard.
Maybe FIT or some other entity that has a archive of important garments can assist, but Jimmy's legacy definitely deserves to be handled with care and respect, as a figure in the fashion industry and as an important New Yorker.