Happy 40th Anniversary Sesame Street!

Has it really been 40 years?!?  Yep.  And Google has been celebrating too for the past few days, featuring different characters from the show.  Here are my two favorites:

Love it!  Google also featured Big Bird, The Count, Burt and Ernie, Oscar, etc.  I'm a bit partial to Cookie Monster, especially when he does "Monsterpiece Theater".


Happy 40th Sesame Street, here's to many more!!!!

Images via Google

Fashion Designers + Sesame Street = Great Editorial!

Oh I am so in love with this editorial spread in September's Harper's Bazaar! To pay tribute to 40 years of good ol' Sesame Street, Bazaar paired some of it's famous residents with top fashion designers. Come on, who doesn't love Oscar the Grouch paired with Oscar de la Renta?!?! Love!

Big Bird and Diane Von Furstenberg

Vera Wang and Abby Cadabby

Derek Lam and Thakoon Panichgul with Bert and Ernie

Francisco Costa and Grover

Carolina Herrera and Elmo

Kate and Laura Mulleavy (Rodarte) with Cookie Monster

Oscar the Grouch and Oscar de la Renta

Great job Bazaar! I have a great back story book about Sesame Street that I got 10 years ago called Sesame Street Unpaved it's completely fascinating!

My friend Junius and Pippi Take the Cake did a blog post about her five favorite recent Sesame Street clips and they are great! Check it out here.

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Images scanned from September 2009 Harper's Bazaar, last image of book cover via Amazon