Link for where to purchase / shop? Thanks!

@emschall

Links are right above the video.

And I have no idea how baby boomers have supposedly been holding us all back. WTF?

I'm a baby boomer. And I don't think I've been holding anyone back.

The patterns say "home." The soundtrack to the first video says "funeral home."

I too am a baby boomer, but I think I've just been dissed!

What's the deal with the topless girl? I don't get it.

And why is there a photo of a woman staring dully and huddling, Hunger-Games style, under a blanket? I.....don't get it.

I don't get it either. Being a baby boomer must be holding me back.

I love the patterns. I can do without the modeling. Probably can't afford this but it's nice.

Agree with Spikele. Why this starving model approach?

I don't understand this post....Offensive and a bunch of pics of some doped-up skinny girl. What?

Sometimes it is good to listen to a "baby boomers" or anyone for that matter.. Nobody was holding you back but yourself. This story is passe'. You need to dig deeper for ideas sweetness.. Really nothing new here. Just a little constructive criticism. Have a good day.

I'm not sure the remodelling was terribly successful - the girl in the picture looks a little cold, perhaps they skipped the insulation in favour of thin cotton fabrics? Also she looks a little hungry, so I'm assuming the kitchen wasn't finished yet :-)

It is never a good thing to write a blanket criticism of an entire age group. By dissing baby boomers you diss the same people who fought for civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, and your right to insult them. Hey, I always like a rebel, but please if you are going to diss a generation, please be specific as to who and why, surely not everyone born between 1946 and 1964 deserves your criticism.

Whew, that video is totally confusing. But I DO want to know where I can get a bra like that one in the above photo!

Like. The styling reminds me of Toast, and the patterns are beautiful and timeless.

I don't get the video of the slightly coked-out looking girl trying to appear tragic. Can't we just see the fabrics without the pretentious tribute to Werner Hertzog and Ingmar Bergman?

The fabrics are ok, but I'm not interested in supporting this sort of "art."

what the heck!?

the comments on this post are waaay better than the actual post!

That video is HILARIOUS! It's so pretentious I actually enjoyed it, and am going to make all my friends watch when they come over for dinner tonight.

Well isn't this pretentious... : l

That photo of the girl staring blankly is very off-putting, and the photo of the girl in the bra doesn't work for me either. If there's a message I fail to get it. It looks like someone is trying to pull something off they really don't understand.

I was so put off by your visuals that I didn't watch the video. I do see viewers commenting that you dissed baby-boomers. What's your problem?!

I went from o_O after seeing the pictures to O_O after watching that video. what. IS. this??

Agreed. What's going on!

Give them some slack, as the last 40 + years have been about 'the baby boomers' (I'm one). And some of us are entering the crotchety stage of 'we know everything because we're old'. Do I get it (the younger gens)? Not exactly, but here, interesting designs.

1. The author of this post may need some therapy. Sounds like latent child-parent rebellion issues are surfacing, as well as some narcissism, assuming that "we" are all the same age and generation. Plus, I just don't get what that reference has to do at all with the content of the post. Are the editors on vacation?

2. Now on to Erica Tanov. I started wearing Erica Tanov garments 12 years ago when my good friend ran Erica's Berkeley store and I was the beneficiary of many cast offs and hand-me-downs that I could never in a million years afford. Erica has unsurpassed taste in textiles and knows how to cut clothing for skinny girls. (Sorry, I happen to be one.) Her eye for color, proportion, styling, even the sets in her catalog and the paper it is printed on are incredible.

Unfortunately, this project is a huge miss. These prints based on the artists work do nothing for me. The housewares pictured are a big nothing. Erica, stick to what you do so well. This is not your normal top notch work.

Gosh, I really didn't interpret that Baby Boomer line as an insult to Baby Boomers, but instead a, "We're finally old enough to get to experience the major life events we've listened to the previous generation tell stories about" (major work and family life events - job security, school aged children, etc.).

Now, I really don't "get" the photoshoot, it's not my taste and it doesn't speak to me, but the insulting comments about the woman in the photos being too skinny and "looking hungry" are really inappropriate - it's no more /polite/ to insult someone for being skinny than it is to insult someone for any other physical attribute.

Well, obviously, the baby boomers were holding us back...
from lolling around half-nekkid.
FREE AT LAST ! FREE AT LAST !

And I quote: "A bedroom should be blissful, a space where you can feel relaxed and beautiful," says Erica Tanov. "I am fascinated by the process of working with fabrics that are luxurious and opulent, and transforming them into pieces you can wear or use every day. With the bedding collection, I apply the same principles, conveying a certain allure, which is at once highly refined, yet easy and unpretentious."

There is a major disconnect between what is said and what is done here. There is nothing blissful, relaxed, beautiful, luxurious, opulent, alluring, refined, easy or unpretentious about the video.

Maybe someone should have paid attention to the baby boomers who demand authenticity at this stage of life. It is a lovely collection but the marketing sucks.

I've been flu-ridden & watching old Codco skits on you tube all week tp distract -- but THIS? Is the funniest thing I've seen in the last seven days; who knew my older sister's generation had somehow created an army of Dark Shadow-esque minions obsessed with showing us their underoos? Who friggin' knew?

Is it just me that sees the funny side? As far as wanting or not wanting to listen to the baby boomers - these textiles are reminiscent of THAT era in their entirety!!!

These two are clowns and crack whore chic hasnt sold anything since the 90s.

Seen these designs before. Think its called 'Retro'!

Putting aside the silly quotes and videos made by these young designers--their textiles are very pretty.

That first video is the funniest thing I've seen in weeks. Looks like a take-off on the "meaningful" performance art of the sixties - especially the moment where the actress kneels to solemnly examine the fallen leaves. Perhaps you haven't come as far as you think, if you are measuring the distance from your baby-boomer influences?

Please raise your standards to meet our expectations! Maybe you should still be paying attention to baby boomers! And those photos of the faux-confused, faux-cold, faux-stoned, faux--whatever woman? Ridiculous and completely offputting. Did a 16-year-old boy decide on the photos and a 16-year-old girl design the stuff?

I must be getting old, I am looking at the sheets and not the girl.

I think the textiles are pretty.

This is a beautiful line and video, was it shot with a Canon?
I enjoyed how the fabric draped on her arm flowed when she made her hand gestures

Well said, StayAtHomeSci. Plenty to mock here without going the body policing route.

They probably aren't aware of what the boomers are saying about THEM.

I think that the baby boomer comment is just a way to have a slightly snarky 'interesting' lead-in, to give something insignificant some 'trend' significance.

That said, it's a mindless sign-on to the generational conflict trope that the Right is pushing to get younger people to feel that boomers are selfish and don't deserve Social Security, with the ultimate goal of rolling back Social Security.

Count this baby boomer a former reader of the site - I know when I'm not wanted.

boomer here.
i thought i was pretty damn savvy at your age too.
we all grow into our own. it just takes time.

So funny, EdmundD!

But... isn't Maxwell is a Generation X'er, and so, technically, a Boomer himself?

@mschatelaine

Baby Boomers are of the generation born right after World War II. Gen X'ers are the children of Baby Boomers. That's my understanding of Gen X, anyway.

@thorndale
What?! I always thought you were a guy. Oh well.

hmm, it looks like it tried to be artsy, but it tried so hard that it just ended up being funny

My reference point in all of this is the demographer David Foot, who wrote Boom, Bust and Echo.

"One author, and professor at the University of Toronto, David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift:[44] Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966; and the "Bust Generation", born between 1967 and 1979.[45] In his opinion, those born between the periods of 1947-1966 were the Baby Boomers, where in Canada they were the largest boom of the industrialized world (relative to population).[46] This large boom complicated the job market for the upcoming generation, Generation X.[47] It is also common in Canada to represent Gen Xers using the date ranges 1961-1981.[48][49]"

So according to Foot, those born between 1961 and 1966 are tail-end Boomers who never got the good stuff from the boom, although he still refers to them as Gen X.

I'm guessing Maxwell is a tail-end Boomer (for some reason, I think he was born in '66) as per Foot's definition.

Hmm, that's a somewhat convoluted description of Foot's point...sorry!

To clarify:

He calls the tail-end of the Boom "Gen X", and defines it as including those born between 1961 and 1966. Those born between 1967 and 1979 are the Bust Generation according to Foot, and no longer Boomers.

@mschatelaine

Interesting. I learn something new whenever I visit AP.

I meant AT. I need to go to bed ;)

I think those generational years are off for the U.S. I'm 1974 and consider myself Gen X. Hubby is 1962 and is definitely not Gen X. Perhaps Canada's numbers are different.

Whoa! I just saw the video. It's like Ophelia right before she throws herself in the river.

Smile!

This inflammatory comment (which I believe was naively intended) encouraged the idea that new designers had something to say that was not made room for by the generation before. Older artists bristle as they ought because without their generous mentorship these new artists might not have substance to balance their innovation. As in this case.
It's amusing to me to see that people seem to feel that every generation ought to discard the lessons and ideas of the old one as repressive and trite. Remember that the phoenix may burn and die but it is still the same bird upon rebirth.

The products look fine, but they obviously missed the mark on whom they are advertising too. Most people (young or old) want their house to look warm and inviting. Unique yes, but still homey.
These photos and videos are the opposite of homey, they feel forced, alien, and just so desperate to be cool.....

@CanadianMango.

Nope. I'm a gal born in 1972. I don't know why, but I kinda like that I fooled you! Unintentional gender bending.

made me click on it and in the end it is all about page clicks!

yup. gotta love the interweb

It reminds me of going to an Art Gallery with my artsy friend, and the major presentation was a video by art students. There were long discussions afterwards by the artistic merit of spinning teddy bears.

Ooops. about not by.

WOW, I didn't expect all of that...

Agreed, that it was a bit of a snarky lead in and I deserve a drubbing, but let the designer's work speak for itself and don't let me set you off. I think these designs are are really nice start into a new area for Erica.

Snarky lead in amended so as not to needlessly dis an entire generation...