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Gifts inspired by the Oscars: ‘127 Hours’

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In the week leading up to Sunday’s Academy Awards, we’re giving you some gift ideas inspired by Oscar nominees.


I know, I know. It seems almost wrong to talk fashion in light of ‘127 Hours’’ harrowing real-life plot. But it’s more evidence of how the film touched us (to the depths of Utah’s Blue John Canyon).

And with models rappelling onto the runway on climbing ropes at Band of Outsiders’ fall-winter 2011 fashion show, donning colorfully laced hiking boots, it’s hard to ignore the influence. A climbing rope was literally protagonist Aron Rolston’s lifesaver. “If I drop the rope, the game is over,” he says in his book, ‘127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place.’ So what better way to pay tribute to his ordeal and triumph? Think of Proenza Schouler’s Climbing Rope Bracelets as the Aron Rolston/127 Hours bracelet —along the lines of the rubbery Lance Armstrong LiveStrong bracelet, albeit a thousand times more chic. The Proenza bracelets are wrapped with raffia or hemp and trimmed with zipper pulls. (Bracelets from $125 in six colors and necklaces from $450 at proenzaschouler.com or openingceremony.com; [310] 652-1120).

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Or rock out a thrill-seeking friend’s home with these uncannily coordinating mouth-blown glass bowls by designer Alexis Georgacopoulos that come with two sets of bungee handles, in red and blue. (Bowls in two sizes, from $150 at aplusrstore.com — one of our favorite Venice design destinations.)

--Ingrid Schmidt

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