At Christie’s auction house in London today, bidders spent lavishly on a painter’s palette of purses, and the highest prices paid were for the most unusually-colored bags.
A violet crocodile Birkin bag sold for $55,726 hours ago, well above its pre-sale estimate, breaking no records, but adding a vivid hue to the collection of one buyer. While not every bag Read More
Monday: Lost
Long before the Dharma Initiative, Widmore Industries and The Oceanic Six, there was the first season of Lost. It was a simpler time, when Michael Emerson was just that guy from a few episodes of Law & Order and not a passive-aggressive criminal mastermind with a couple of Emmy nominations … but Read More
Shoppers wishing to pick up a Kelly bag from Hermès can expect two inevitables: a considerable wait and a minimum price tag of $6,000. (Want the crocodile-and-diamonds version? They ring in at more than $100,000 a pop.) The purse first became the envy of women everywhere after the late Princess Grace Kelly was photographed, in Read More
Last night at the Sotheby’s headquarters on the Upper East Side, all the stops were pulled for a Monaco casino-themed party in honor of Princess Grace Kelly. The late monarch’s jewelry and gowns were on display on two floors in the York Avenue building, and in the 7th floor auction hall—temporarily renamed for Read More
Wednesday, July 15
Every week, a hidden camera in a second-floor window on a beautiful-people street in SoHo tapes women walking by for a cable-access show called Knit Bootie . It’s compelling television. Somebody splices together the most attractive specimens, creating narrative from nothing. It’s the purest form of TV; the creator simply brings Read More
During the day I read all sorts of interesting and challenging books: film theory, the latest works of my friends, and, of course, plotless and multivoiced modern novels with unhappy characters for whom love solves nothing and cerebration brings misery. But at night, when insomnia threatens, I read detective stories; specifically, as an anodyne to Read More
