By Matt Coleman
Photo: DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty ImagesDavid “Fuck Yeah” Karp is 26 years old and just sold his company to Yahoo! He was 17, which the company did not know at first, and worked for months from Tokyo. He made his first $750,000 on investments in Tumblr, the micro-blogging site he created in 2007, at the age of 21. His starter family includes girlfriend Rachel Eakley, a graduate student in psychology, and Clark, a French-English bulldog mix. (One concession to opulence: a restaurant-grade kitchen for his girlfriend, Rachel Eakley, a trained chef.
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Called “The Empty Space,” the lifestyle project “was born out of fully acknowledging that Vespa is not only a mobility brand but a lifestyle one,” said Davide Zanolini, executive vice president of marketing and communication of Piaggio Group, in an interview. It triggered us to think how Vespa could be their life buddy via other means than a vehicle,” he said. Vespa had orchestrated collaborations in the fashion space before, linking up with Emporio Armani in 2016; sneaker guru Sean Wotherspoon in 2020, and Dior in 2021. “We are not aiming to become a fashion brand; this industry doesn’t need a new brand to be expanding its footprints. The Vespa Summer Edit campaign by Johnny Dufort.
LA DOLCE VITA: Dior has linked with Italian brand Vespa to create an exclusive scooter and a range of matching accessories. Pietro Beccari, chairman and chief executive officer of Christian Dior Couture, noted the house’s founder Christian Dior was fascinated with the Italian Riviera in the Fifties. The Vespa 946 Christian Dior. Photographed by Pamela Hanson/Courtesy of Christian DiorThe Vespa 946 Christian Dior, featuring a saddle patterned with the Dior Oblique motif, will go on sale in spring 2021 in Dior boutiques around the world and subsequently in a selection of Piaggio’s Motoplex stores. This new Vespa 946 celebrates that anniversary and honors our heritage,” he said.
Amber Wilson: My name is Amber, and for the next segment we have a very special guest with us, Frode Lundgren. Amber Wilson: Just for anyone who may not know what Vespa is, can you first just start off talking about what Vespa is? Frode Lundgren: Sure. Amber Wilson: Nice, and so how long has it been around, and when did it become open source as well? Frode Lundgren: Vespa, as a platform, we started to build in Yahoo around 15 years ago, and obviously, it has been changed over the years.
From Sting’s Ace Face in 1979’s Quadrophenia to Armie Hammer as Russian spy Illya Kuryakin in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., riding a Vespa scooter is key to completing the debonair badass look. Andrew Hadjiminas, president of Vespa Manhattan, is, of course, keen to push the practical aspects of such a small, economic vehicle, too. The Vespa 946 Emporio Armani (pictured) was created to celebrate Giorgio Armani’s 40th anniversary and the 130th anniversary of Vespa’s parent company, the Piaggio Group. “The key function of the Armani bike is the collaboration between two great Italian companies,” Mr. Hadjiminas said. In different sunlight it changes colors, which is really awesome.” The average Vespa scooter retails for $3,699; the Vespa 946 Emporio Armani retails for a cool $10,999.
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The Asian giant hornet has recently been spotted close to the Canadian border in Washington state. Photo courtesy Washington State Department of Agriculture. Last year’s quiet arrival of a foreign wasp known as the Asian giant hornet is no longer a secret outside of Washington state. Within the past few days, all the major TV networks have broadcast stories of the arrival of the wasp to the Pacific Northwest. Known to entomologists as Vespa mandarinia, it has been named by the press the ‘murder hornet’.
