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The more I'm in this business ... the more I seem to love it ... a few unnamed characters notwithstanding. This is a business which seems to require more knowledge for less remuneration than any other I know. When someone says to me: "You didn't know that?" ... with total amazement at my abysmal ignorance ... I usually ask them if they know what a culet is. And then the not-so-friendly game of intellectual one-upmanship ends. Sigh. Knowledge is directly related to where on earth you happen to be standing at any given time I guess. I could go on and on.
However ... all that said ... there is something about conspicuous consumption that sometimes seems to even rattle my jaded perspectives.
What does one get a woman who has everything? A Maserati perhaps? A little private jet? A boy toy for a week? All nice things I'm sure. But by certain stretches they can all seem like essentials and can easily elude the category of conspicuous consumption.
Ah ... but when it comes to evening bags ... it is here that throwing money down the drain takes on new meanings. For those of you who think that logic can not be defied ... think again. I have an evening bag that cost-- back in 1987--23,000 Swiss Francs. I have no idea how that translates in today's dollars ... but I would venture to say quite a bit more than that aforementioned paltry Maserati.
It is mesh. It is studded with round diamonds and has a suspended fringe of pear-shaped diamonds as well as a pear-shaped diamond clasp and a diamond pave-set rectangular frame. But that is nothing ladies and gennulmens. It is the material from which it is made that knocks me out. This evening bag is made of platinum and has a gross weight of
565 grams.It's nothing to look at folks. It's an evening bag. You're going to a wedding ... or out clubbing ... and you need something within which you can place your lipstick ... and the keys to the apartment ... and a few little doo-dads. And so you spend a hundred grand or so ... for a purse. Sheesh!
But I will show it to you ... and you ladies can all eat your hearts out over the fact that the best you will ever do is a picayune Chanel ... or a Dolce and Gabbana. My trinket is better than your trinket is what makes the world go 'round ... does it not?
So ... ya wanna see? Go. Look. Enjoy. Marvel.
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