50 Cent At Henri Bendel: One More Step In Audio As Fashion

Walk into the Henri Bendel store on Fifth Avenue in New York, and you’ll immediately be inundated by fashion accessories best described as bold. There are bedazzled iPhone cases, Davy Crockett-esque fur hats and row upon row of glittery bangles. The latest addition: 50 Cent’s SMS headphones.

New models were on display at the store yesterday, arranged in stacks of boxes that together looked like a despondent Rubik’s Cube. Behind them lurked massive posters featuring the different colors availab...