LEE PAYS HOMAGE TO BROOKLYN IN VODKA BOTTLE DESIGN
Director SPIKE LEE has designed a limited edition vodka bottle, which cap tures the essence of his native Brooklyn, New York.
The Malcolm X filmmaker is the creative brains behind the packaging for Absolut Brooklyn, a drink flavoured with ginger and red apple.
The bottle features one of the borough’s distinctive brownstone buildin gs with the door number 165 - the same address of Lee’s childhood home in the Cobble Hill neighbourhood.
Absolut spokeswoman Sarah Bessette says, "We have a long history of col laborating with creative visionaries and nobody says Brooklyn more than S pike." The new drink went on sale in the U.S. for a limited four-month run thi s week (begs17May10).
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