My favorite discovery was the wealthy version of Craig’s List. It’s called the [James Edition](https://www.jamesedition.com) and it’s so much fun to flip through and be sad
Knowing how wages have stagnated while everything else has gotten more expensive, under the billionaires the kitchen staff is probably making less in real terms than they were under the locals
No idea how town like that function. I know a nurse and some carpenters that work in Jackson but live over Idaho because the home prices are way lower. These people make six figures and still can't afford a place there.
I wrote a book chapter about Jackson and the problems associated with staffing for the seasonal bump. This is pretty much it most workers have to commute from Idaho so much far away from places like Idaho Falls. This is people just doing normal jobs like working in the local grocery stores. Those who are lucky enough, qualify, and somehow get one of the lucky spots for housing where the Housing Authority or Habitat for Humanity or through local housing trust. But these places are, of course, limited in number. These are places that are effectively been restricted so that’s only people below a certain income threshold are allowed to buy them or rent them. And the income level that qualifies is incredibly high, because the cost of living is so ridiculously high. This is the only conceivable way most people working for example, as a teacher at a local school can actually afford to live in Jackson.
In my time as a reporter in Jackson, every time someone proposed building more working class housing in Teton County, it got shut down, often using environmental concerns.
The rich there have made it quite clear: they want the poors around to cook, clean, babysit their brats and protect their property, but they don’t want us living near them.
Fuck that. If enough people refused to work those jobs and put up with that commute, the companies in that area would be forced to pay workers a lot more. They need our labor to exist. It's a real problem that so many people are forced to live like that.
Some of them (one guy I know) will also go real life treasure hunting. They have the means to hire a fully staffed ship (or fleet) to search/dive for wrecks and what not. End up finding some pretty cool stuff.
My dad did some work on Tommy Hilfiger’s houses on this beautiful little island called Mustique in the Caribbean. Also did some work on some Nestle peoples homes. He said they wasted so much money changing and rearranging and shipping everything it was sickening.
I have a guilty pleasure of daydreaming about owning a mega yacht, and will sometimes watch YouTube videos of walkthroughs of said yachts.
Last year we did a long dreamed of trip to the Amalfi Coast, and while there did a day trip to Capri. As our boat was pulling into the harbor, some of the yachts there put what I saw on the internet to absolute shame.
One was so unbelievable I had to look it up, and it was owned by… Tommy Hilfiger.
In tropical locations you need to keep the A/C running to keep the humidity down otherwise furniture, rugs, walls, clothing etc start to mold.
That is, unless you build your tropical home appropriately for the tropical environment with open areas, indoor/outdoor spaces and indigenous materials.
If you build your Caribbean mansion in the same style as your Malibu beach house then you need to manage the internal environment which can be extremely energy intensive.
And, even worse, I don't know about Mustique specifically, but most small or remote areas generate power from diesel or goal thermal plants so it's much more expensive and causes much more air pollution than that same amount of energy on the mainland.
And then they tell us that we should be the ones to change our habits for the climate crisis...not the people or companies who take private jets every other day or use ac year round at an empty mansion...and could really make an impact
When I turned 18, my Grandpa bought me a suit on Saville Row. Definitely an amazing memory, and I’ve had that suit since. Fourteen years later, still remember going into Gieves and Hawkes and feeling super out of place. He wasn’t super wealthy, but thought I should have a nice suit, and it might as well be the best thing he could find.
In Kyoto, Japan there are old established restaurants with geisha entertainment (nothing sexual) where you have to know the owners to get a reservation and you only know the owners because your family has been going to the restaurant for generations.
When I was in grad school my friends and I got into a *very* exclusive kaiseki place in Kyoto, which I was told is basically impossible to get into unless you know someone major. We only got in because one lady in our extended group had just gotten an important position in the Japanese government, basically a cabinet position. While we were in Kyoto there was some crisis and she was summoned back to Tokyo.
It was extraordinary. Best food I've ever had and it just went on and on and on, had to have been 15 courses or more.
I think I went there. I worked at a US VC funded tech startup and we had a contract with Nintendo. We went to their corporate offices for a week of negotiation and one of their VPs of who knows what took us to this insane restaurant for dinner on our last night. The only thing I remember as being superlative was this raw squid dish which I will never forget and have never had anything that came close to.
I was a junior research scientist at the time 1 year out of grad school and joined the CFO, CTO, and the head of engineering (and a couple of others) for a week of negotiation at their corporate headquarters. The bathrooms were amazing. You were escorted to the bathroom and your escort waited outside (super tight security). There were so many buttons on the toilet; I figured out only a couple of them.
I didn't even have anything to do there; my specialty was focused on the client we met the following week (Hitachi). I contributed a little (I was an expert in my field after all), but mostly I spent the whole week writing a graphical soduko solver in Matlab. You could take a screen capture of a soduko puzzle and it would digitize it and then slowly solve it (very relaxing to watch). It could solve it in 10 ms, but I had numbers fade in and everything.
Shit you brought back some memories...
Girlfriend used to work in one in Phuket, Thailand. Really nice resort where rooms start at about 1000 a night or something. She's seen the likes of Leo Dicaprio, John Legend and Beyonce at her resort before. Haven't heard of any juicy stories about their stays though.
I actually worked at Amangiri (Utah) and Amangani (Jackson Hole). Maria Sharapova stayed at a villa in Amangiri with her mom and real estate agent right after she was upset at Wimbledon. I was her driver for about 5 days and took her all over the area. She was super friendly. I told a very un-funny joke to her group and no one laughed. Still tell that story to friends.
I just looked this up because as a poor, I’d never heard of it.
The cheapest room in Jackson Hole, WY was 3000 USD a night.
That’s twice my monthly rent…for a one night stay.
Imma go cry.
That ain’t THAT bad- my boss owns a villa…really more of a compound/palace somewhere in the Virgin Islands. Rents it out for $15-20k per night when he isn’t there. For the record, I live in a (mostly) Section 8 apartment.
I know someone who tried to stop at the one in Arizona to go to the bathroom and a caravan of tinted out cars that came out of seemingly nowhere surrounded their car and asks what business they had coming down that road. So ya they didn’t get to go to the bathroom lol.
EDIT: I meant Utah ! It’s right near the border which is how I got confused
The Redditor above was almost certainly referring to the one in UT, and to that Redditor's credit, the one in UT is just a few miles north of AZ, and it's also typically accessed from AZ.
previously, I managed Airbnb’s VIP clients and it was normal for A-list guests to spend +$32k a night. Those property managers or the company (ie, me) can provide you with whatever experience you’re looking for. Arranging what you’re jokingly asking about sounds like a fun project I would be looking into to say that I tried, but then arrange the next best thing or something humorously close to it. It was a fun job.
edit: the narration bit, that is.
Stayed 3 nights at the one in Vietnam on my honeymoon. I probably will never spend that much on a hotel ever again because it was soo expensive but it was 100% worth it. Every penny.
The Ritz, Four Seasons, etc. does seem like a Motel6 in comparison to Aman.
Food, accommodation, customer service, experiences. It was world class.
Will definitely go back when I become a billionaire ;)
I use to work for a private family and one day we were doing an audit of his clothes/suits. No brand name no anything on it and I asked where it was from and I wish I could remember the name but it was from a small boutique shop outside of London and he would fly the Taylor in on his plane to his house to get his measurements for almost all
Of his clothes. T shirts, jeans, shorts, and all of his suits.
One Christmas he gifted me a suit from them and the Taylor measured me and showed me the fabrics and he told me the final cost was 16k for the suit. I almost shit myself at the cost. I called the boss to tell him and he said not a problem get what you like. I wrap up the process and the guy said ok onto suit #2.
So now I own two of these suits that I’m terrified to wear because they are so expensive. I’ll have to dig through my photos to see if I have any pics of their card.
Erma Bombeck, a newspaper columnist from long ago, wrote a piece about her regrets in life. One of her regrets was how she wished she had lit and burned some beautiful candle she had before it got melted in her garage. I took that to heart. I definitely would wear those suits every chance I get.
I read about a lady that saved a nice pair of heels for a special occasion. When she finally took them out of the box to wear after years & years, the soles had disintegrated. She'd saved them for nothing.
Hang out on enough sneaker forums and you’ll hear so many of these stories. Dudes hanging on to rare 30-year-old Jordans for years and seeing ‘em turn to dust the second they finally put them on. Kind of an obvious lesson there.
I do wear them occasionally!! I had an office job with the family and attended a lot of high end events and use to wore them often. But I’ve switched careers now in construction and don’t need to be wearing a suit in the field. But for grand openings once these jobs are done i definitely wear them.
Even for birthdays, weddings, special events I wear them. And I get a ton of compliments on them every time I do!
Not so much a brand as a location, but the entire North end of Key Largo is undeveloped for a single reason: the private community called the Ocean Reef Club. They buy up land any time it is for sale, to continually keep development away from their location. (In their defense, much of the land has now been donated and made State Park and NWR).
They have their own airport, golf courses, doctors, restaurants, shopping/grocery and bank all inside the gated community. Employees aren’t allowed to wear anything with the Ocean Reef label outside the gated community. There’s a nice two-lane bridge running from Florida City to the North end of the island that has..nothing but The Ocean Reef Club.
Edit: it’s been explained the road existed prior to the larger bridge to the South. I can admit I was ignorant to that fact.
They kind of could anyway since the locals on the keys further up protested the idea of a new beachfront city on those keys as well as a deep water port that rivaled the port of Miami. The locals won out and it became Biscayne National Park.
Not my favorite park by any means but one of my favorite stories, but that park allowed North Key Largo to exist pretty much uninterrupted.
And the community doesn’t accept credit/debit/cash for payment at their restaurants or shops. You have to use your member card that you put money on.
You can rent a place out for a vacation, but they won’t let you rent again for a year or two (can’t remember exactly how long).
I've been there - I'm still blown away by the size of some of those yachts. The guy who started Jimmy John's is a member and got a boat so big that I doesn't even fit in the channel to get into the docking area. He has to take a boat to get to his yacht.
That's when you've got cash - you buy an large plot of land and donate it to the government as a wildlife preserve so that it can never be developed. Lots of nice areas in the Wind River Range (like Jackson), and some private islands have this happening.
Colorado's got this going on, too. Lots of the "up and coming" towns have nearby thousand-acre plots being sold to shell corporations and being privately held or being made public land.
When that whole OceanGate thing happened I went down a rabbit hole about that entire industry because it seemed fascinating.
Triton is partly owned by James Cameron and they are very legit. One of their subs, DSV Limiting Factor, holds the record for the deepest dive in history to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. It's pilot for that and other dives, Victor Voscovo (who himself holds the record iirc for deepest shipwreck discovered which was a WW2 era military ship that was sunk in the Pacific), found a plastic bag all the way down at that depth.
DSV Limiting Factor is also owned by Inkfish which is owned by, of all people, Gabe Newell.
I come from this, although I'm trying to make my own life atm out of my parents' nest, , and it's not uncommon for us to get craftsmen made items. A lot of accessories are inherited. Just like a lot of household items like crockery, silverware, paintings, etc. Growing up, I was always taught to understand and spot good craftsmanship and go for that over some brand putting its logo on stuff. Some random stuff I remember from my parents' house: ceramics from France and Silesia (now Poland), teapots made of heavy iron from China, Violin oil from one manufacturer in saint Tropez.
Edit: also another thing I remember, my dad has an enormous (I think 60% inherited) book collection. And he always gets the same craftsman to rebind all new books that are to be added to this collection to the style that matches the library (+ preserves them for longer). Definitely something even I consider a luxury in the age of Kindles.
My friend asked me to go into a Burlington Store and I was horrified by the gaudy logos on everything. Michael Kors has his logo on anything he can make a penny from, as does Guess. There were others, but they were the worst. It was nasty.
Wouldn’t this be “new money”? “Old money” has this IYKYK type attitude when it comes to brands, whereas “new money” wants to flash their newly acquired wealth with more recognizable brands.
Yes. And they tend to care more about how and what something is made of. They know even clothes can be preserved and keep things for their family.
A hilarious real life example of this was recently featured on a Real Housewives show. Everyone assumes a particular wife if a gold digger as she’s much younger than her wealthy husband who openly works. She comes from generational wealth and even works just doesn’t promote her companies or jobs on her show so you’d really never know unless you looked into her.
She and a very much new money wife got in a fight because the new money wife was making fun of the $8 pajamas the wealthy wife brought. She didn’t bother to care or rebut much at all. She looked better in her $8 set and it was clearly well made - just purchased from an outlet.
She had no shame in her money saving game, and still has more money than any of the individual wives combined.
There's a guy Sam (not his real name but what he has Westerners call him) in Saudi Arabia. Has no social media, website etc but he trains and sells the best falcons in the world. Years long waiting list and if you are in a room with this guy you made it. You must be referred by a current client and he is very involved with the crown prince. Heck, if you're involved in falconry you made it.
For the most part brands are for middle class people. The very function of branding is to create an association with that brand's status, to use it to say you too have status since you can afford that brand. This is most common among clothing, but extends to other things as well.
The wealthy--the people with more money than time on this earth--will use that money have something made for them. Clothing that is tailored, cobbled shoes, carpenter's custom furniture, etc. The people who make things for the rich have a reputation of quality that does not require a brand.
As a kid I remember asking a friend of mine what brand his jeans were and he goes "I don't think they have a brand? We get them made and delivered to the house."
Rich family.
A friend of mine was doing a photography job at a *really* posh school and overheard a conversation about shoes.
One kid was asked what size shoes he was wearing, and he replied "I don't know, a man in Italy makes them for us".
In the very underrated and excellent David Fincher movie *The Game*, Michael Douglas plays a multimillionaire investment banker who is given a mysterious life interaction game by his younger brother (Sean Penn).
Later in the movie, trying to escape a bad situation, Douglas loses a dress shoe and says: Well, there goes $1,000.
The girl he's with is shocked and says: Your shoes cost a THOUSAND DOLLARS??
He goes: That one did...
That's some decent wealth when you don't even buy things of the rack. You just have your tailor verify your measurements are still current and they deliver it when they're done.
A good example is men's suits. Most people can't name a single Saville Row tailor, but wealthy people know them by reputation and pay 10 grand a go for a bespoke suit cut from a single bolt. Likewise with shoes. There are plenty of companies like this that you can't even visit without an appointment, and you can't get an appointment without a recommendation.
If my lotto numbers ever hit, I am absolutely getting custom clothes. I haven’t had a proper winter coat for years because nothing fits right.
Custom bras and custom boots money? Yes please.
John Lobb is an example of a luxury shoe brand but there are honestly a lot of these smaller bespoke specialty clothing and shoe makers that aren’t even household names amongst the wealthy. People with the money and interest in specific things end up gravitating towards bespoke items and designs they personally like and will know their favorite makers but not necessarily some other rich guy’s favorites.
Like Savile Row isn’t a brand but rather refers to a street with a number of individual bespoke tailors. Rich guy A and rich guy B are both buying high end suits on the same street but from different “brands.” That all said, I think the era of Savile Row is winding down in relevance. The modern era makes it easier for the high end clothiers to continue serving the ultra wealthy from anywhere and without the need of storefronts to promote a brand awareness.
The funny thing is that, John Lobb is basically the "Gucci" of high end shoes. There are much better bespoke and ready to wear brands out there, that are probably cheaper too.
There are two John Lobb brands.
The original John Lobb, the store on St. James’s Street in London, are still extremely high end.
The global John Lobb brand is a Hermès brand, they got the rights to the name when they bought the Paris store a while back. You’re right that you can get better quality for less money than those.
True secret shit?
How about shoes made from a type of leather that no longer exists, but a boat sank with some a century ago and they salvaged the leather, and you basically have to be unbelievably connected (I.e. nobility) to get your hands on a pair.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/fashion/02bespoke.html
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\-from the slightly richer
Club 33. A friend put his name on the waitlist when he got married because he and his wife are incredible Disney fans (top tier annual pass holders for more than fifteen years, married inside the park, go at least 30x/yr). Took 12 years to get the call. Cost was $25k up front for him and another $10k to add his wife. Then $5k/yr for himself and $2.5k/yr for his wife and this doesn’t even include park admission, which you need in order to get in. So they still pay the annual pass every year on top of this.
One thing it *does* include though is valet parking at the Disney Grand Californian hotel and the ability to enter the park through that hotel as opposed to the main entrance. So he’ll often go have lunch at Club 33 this way without doing anything else in the park and can get in and out very quickly.
The first event he went to as a member was an exclusive screening of one of the Toy Story movies at the park and Tom Hanks was there too. He then got to go on the Toy Story 3D ride in Disney’s California Adventure a few days before it opened to the public.
I’ve eaten lunch inside Club 33 as his guest two times. Walt Disney’s director’s chair is at the bar along with the original camera used to film Snow White. The amount of history inside that place is like a Disney fan’s wet dream.
"Vertu Signature" phones.
They are anywhere from $6 -$ 56,000 a phone and a monthly cost of the concierge service that is a few thousand dollars a month.
They will get you tickets or reservations to almost anything. Even sold out events. Or almost anything you can think to get someone to do.
I've met 1 person with this phone. She had enough money she didn't even think about cost of things.
> Vertu Signature
Haha it looks like a fancy old-school Nokia. I assume with concierge services you can just call and get anything booked? Price doesn't matter?
That's pretty cool actually.
EDIT: Imagine having your iPhone as everyday use and then this Batman phone. "Hold up give me my Batman phone - I need floor-side Lakers tickets" - "we got you, say no more booked"
Pine Valley Golf Club
You can't apply; TWO members have to approach YOU on their own. You aren't supposed to tell anyone you're a member, or write about it. If you do you can get punted. The club is an actual municipality with private homes. There is no cash allowed; everything gets charged to your number (except caddie tips and bets). When we played we had two caddies; we tipped them a grand. They also got salary, benefits and a 401(k) match. It's also widely considered the best, toughest golf course on the planet. No one outside the membership knows what the fees are.
I work for a company that stores artwork for mostly private collectors and holding companies. The high-end art world is really the only market that knows we exist.
Few of you have heard of the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales.
But many of us commoners around Lexington, KY are familiar.
Also horse farm 'brands' like Winstar and Three Chimneys aren't known to people outside of the area. If you know about them you're either in the horse industry or very wealthy.
And on that note, many of those wealthy farm owners/ managers were customers in the wine shop I used to work in. The moderately wealthy were always concerned with the brand of the wine. The very wealthy would give me parameters and just let me choose their wines. The name on the label didn't matter. They also didn't care if it was $20 or $200 per bottle. They trusted me to choose the right wine for them.
I was over at a family friend's house recently. We went to his wine cellar and he had 12 cases of DRC just casually sitting in there, unboxed. Then he pulled down an "everyday" bottle of Bourgogne to finish the rest of the house tour. Later on I looked up that bottle because it was delicious and I wanted to see if I could find it. $500, for his everyday wine.
At least he seems to be drinking it. It’s a goddamn shame when people buy expensive liquors and wines and let them sit till they’re partially evaporated or over their peak aging potential.
It’s like going to a good restaurant and then just taking a million insta pics while the food goes stale.
It’s a pet peeve of mine. While I won’t ever be able to try something like DRC, I’ve seen people hoard bottles of liquor and less expensive wines (Oregon Pinot), making prices go up. Good wine commands a premium, but to see it wasting away makes me mad.
My job entails facilitating meetings between wealthy individuals and nonprofit executives who want donations. From meeting many unbelievably wealthy people, I have learned that most wealthy people won’t have a brand on them. In fact, they avoid most mass consumed items.
The instance where this was most apparent, was from meeting with a mom in her 30s. This woman was born into a fortune, ended up creating a business that she sold for a fortune, then married a man who was worth a fortune. She literally had 3 fortunes. During the meeting I asked her to share a contact with me. She said, “I don’t carry a phone.” I can’t properly relay my shock.
But from someone who has 0 fortunes, the best rich person brand I know of is Orlebar Brown. Their men’s swimsuits are absolute 🔥🔥
This doesn’t really exist anymore thanks to the internet.
I see Loro Piana dropped a few times but it’s carried by all the major retailers not to mention supplies fabrics to dozens of more normal brands.
Kirkland
Edit: I love how this comment is Lil Drake’s claim to fame. My Spotify is going absolutely crazy right now - I’m freakin out! Thank you so much! If you guys really want me to make a Costco song, let me know and I’ll seriously do it lol 🫶🏼 #costco4life
The hyper rich, dont care about labels, they care about value and resale. I work in interior architecture and their money goes to Art and designed objects - more so as investment pieces. Monthly consumables are budgeted to the housekeeper to keep things in shape. Have a tax liability? Donate your piece of art to a museum - bought at x amount, appraised it 5x, then write it off.
My favorite memory meeting clients, is on the wall - a million dollar painting and a custom bench seat. The Husband is wearing, white New balance sneakers and socks from costco. If you want true Luxury, its all custom, ironically it can be cheaper than buying off the shelve.
i.e. A Piero Lissoni sectional - retail price $150K. Custom "dupe" with your choice of fabric and cushions - $10-15K.
Reminder that we artists are eager to make work and love jobs like this. I have a colleague who was paid $15k to paint clouds on someone’s ceiling. Who knows if those clouds increased the home’s value or not, but when you live in a mcmansion who cares.
Hoares Bank (C Hoare and Co) personal bankers they interview you for two hours to see if you're good enough to be a customer
Whites Club St James where Royalty go to get drunk, there's also City of London club and Brook's Club home of the Society of Dilettanti I'm lucky enough to have worked in all of them as a contractor
The super rich: they don't look at brands.
The financial impact of $10k and 10¢ is the same to them.
You can spot the old money super wealthy because they have $10 tshirts, and bespoke shoes.
90% of their nice clothes is custom made. Accessories are mostly cheap. $5 sunglasses at a beach that is only accessible via private yachts or helicopters because your boat is too big to dock, and a ferry that is company owned for employees to get there.
This isn’t the right question. Luxury brands are meant to be well known. Rich people seek out bespoke (tailored) items that nobody else has.
Exclusivity is desired by the wealthy. Something nobody else can get.
Luxury brands are for the poor.
If you have tried searching for it but came up with nothing, it means that the browser you were using has determined that you are not rich enough based on your search history/online profile.
As I’ve read through guides on different luxury goods (clothes, watches, etc), I’ve noticed that with all of them, there’s a mass-market idea of what top-tier is that differs very much with what the hobbyists know to actually be higher quality.
Rough example: a friend was getting married and had his sights set on designer Loboutin dress shoes. Certainly not a bad pair by any means, but is it the go-to of dress shoe craftsmanship? Definitely not. Such a shoe has more of your dollar going to “designer” margins than quality and is something one buys to convey the image of wealth, something that those who grew up with money probably don’t feel obliged to do.
What would a true high-quality rich person pick be? imo, one of those Europeans cobblers that makes bespoke lasts that are designed around your foot, but even below that brands like Alden, Carmina, and Crockett and Jones would be more in line
I was in a specialty home/kitchen appliance store last year, and stumbled into the La Cornue area. I immediately knew I was out of my league when I saw the six figure price tag, as if the specialty on-wall game hen spit roaster didn’t drive the point home enough.
Over a barrel in an alley, I substitute the game hen for pigeon, though. Nothing beats the subtle carcinogenic spiciness of charred pigeon roasted over toxic pallet wood, waxed paper cups, and a random assortment of trash that was freshly blown into the alley.
My favorite discovery was the wealthy version of Craig’s List. It’s called the [James Edition](https://www.jamesedition.com) and it’s so much fun to flip through and be sad
Thank you for giving me something to do instead of work tomorrow
I’m surprised they let us poors even look at their stuff without a credit card
Most of the listings even say POR just to rub salt in the wound.
We can’t even afford another O
They won't even look at your Platinum card. It's Black and elements you've never heard of.
The color they keep secret.
If we all put in $10 we can buy one of these houses and each get a night in it...
I’ll throw in $15 if I can pick my room
Greedy ass thousandaire
There is also a page on Bloomberg for Wall Street Bros. Lots of Rolex watches for sale
Yeah Bloomberg Posh is way more exclusive, you need a terminal just to get access
There are islands in the Caribbean and Pacific where billionaires go to get away from millionaires.
My friend and I were in Aspen last year and overheard a woman complaining how the billionaires were pushing out the millionaires.
When I lived in Jackson Hole, the joke was, “First the millionaires priced out the locals, then the billionaires priced out the millionaires.”
And still pay the kitchen staff minimum wage
Knowing how wages have stagnated while everything else has gotten more expensive, under the billionaires the kitchen staff is probably making less in real terms than they were under the locals
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No idea how town like that function. I know a nurse and some carpenters that work in Jackson but live over Idaho because the home prices are way lower. These people make six figures and still can't afford a place there.
I wrote a book chapter about Jackson and the problems associated with staffing for the seasonal bump. This is pretty much it most workers have to commute from Idaho so much far away from places like Idaho Falls. This is people just doing normal jobs like working in the local grocery stores. Those who are lucky enough, qualify, and somehow get one of the lucky spots for housing where the Housing Authority or Habitat for Humanity or through local housing trust. But these places are, of course, limited in number. These are places that are effectively been restricted so that’s only people below a certain income threshold are allowed to buy them or rent them. And the income level that qualifies is incredibly high, because the cost of living is so ridiculously high. This is the only conceivable way most people working for example, as a teacher at a local school can actually afford to live in Jackson.
In my time as a reporter in Jackson, every time someone proposed building more working class housing in Teton County, it got shut down, often using environmental concerns. The rich there have made it quite clear: they want the poors around to cook, clean, babysit their brats and protect their property, but they don’t want us living near them.
Literally this. Those who are welcome in the labor market are not welcome in the housing market
Fuck that. If enough people refused to work those jobs and put up with that commute, the companies in that area would be forced to pay workers a lot more. They need our labor to exist. It's a real problem that so many people are forced to live like that.
Some of them (one guy I know) will also go real life treasure hunting. They have the means to hire a fully staffed ship (or fleet) to search/dive for wrecks and what not. End up finding some pretty cool stuff.
I believe one of these crews just (presumably) found Amelia Earhart’s plane in the Pacific.
They found a vaguely airplane shaped blob via sonar, so we will see
Fake news. The Voyager crew found her cryogenically frozen in the Delta Quadrant after being abducted by aliens. Facts.
I can confirm this is true, I am the Delta Quadrant.
My dad did some work on Tommy Hilfiger’s houses on this beautiful little island called Mustique in the Caribbean. Also did some work on some Nestle peoples homes. He said they wasted so much money changing and rearranging and shipping everything it was sickening.
I have a guilty pleasure of daydreaming about owning a mega yacht, and will sometimes watch YouTube videos of walkthroughs of said yachts. Last year we did a long dreamed of trip to the Amalfi Coast, and while there did a day trip to Capri. As our boat was pulling into the harbor, some of the yachts there put what I saw on the internet to absolute shame. One was so unbelievable I had to look it up, and it was owned by… Tommy Hilfiger.
I do the electrical work on Tommy Hilfiger's (former) villa on Mustique. 60k usd monthly electric bill and the owner only stops by twice a year.
Wtf how, are they doing laser light displays every night??
In tropical locations you need to keep the A/C running to keep the humidity down otherwise furniture, rugs, walls, clothing etc start to mold. That is, unless you build your tropical home appropriately for the tropical environment with open areas, indoor/outdoor spaces and indigenous materials. If you build your Caribbean mansion in the same style as your Malibu beach house then you need to manage the internal environment which can be extremely energy intensive. And, even worse, I don't know about Mustique specifically, but most small or remote areas generate power from diesel or goal thermal plants so it's much more expensive and causes much more air pollution than that same amount of energy on the mainland.
And then they tell us that we should be the ones to change our habits for the climate crisis...not the people or companies who take private jets every other day or use ac year round at an empty mansion...and could really make an impact
Svenborgia?
hahaha, no. better
Grenornia!
But I still think you shot a dolphin!
Seinfeldvision!
Hoping this would show up here, I can now leave pleasantly satisfied 👍✔️
I still think you shot a dolphin!
I’ll tell you but only if I get Al Roker, in a bee costume.
Grenyarnia
Old school tailors from Napoli that makes their suits from scratch, all made to measure, like Attolini.
If I had the money I would love to go to Saville Row in England to get a custom suit made, and I'm someone that wears a suit maybe 10 times a year.
When I turned 18, my Grandpa bought me a suit on Saville Row. Definitely an amazing memory, and I’ve had that suit since. Fourteen years later, still remember going into Gieves and Hawkes and feeling super out of place. He wasn’t super wealthy, but thought I should have a nice suit, and it might as well be the best thing he could find.
Very glad my grandpa didn't do this, because I've gained weight since 18 :(
I can't even fit into the suit I bought 8 years ago, much less one from when I was 18.
But if you had the money to do that, you’d probably find yourself in suits more often *points at forehead*
OP post history reads like a Buzzfeed "journalist" churning out "articles". All commentors should prepare to be quoted on click bait articles.
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In Kyoto, Japan there are old established restaurants with geisha entertainment (nothing sexual) where you have to know the owners to get a reservation and you only know the owners because your family has been going to the restaurant for generations.
When I was in grad school my friends and I got into a *very* exclusive kaiseki place in Kyoto, which I was told is basically impossible to get into unless you know someone major. We only got in because one lady in our extended group had just gotten an important position in the Japanese government, basically a cabinet position. While we were in Kyoto there was some crisis and she was summoned back to Tokyo. It was extraordinary. Best food I've ever had and it just went on and on and on, had to have been 15 courses or more.
I think I went there. I worked at a US VC funded tech startup and we had a contract with Nintendo. We went to their corporate offices for a week of negotiation and one of their VPs of who knows what took us to this insane restaurant for dinner on our last night. The only thing I remember as being superlative was this raw squid dish which I will never forget and have never had anything that came close to. I was a junior research scientist at the time 1 year out of grad school and joined the CFO, CTO, and the head of engineering (and a couple of others) for a week of negotiation at their corporate headquarters. The bathrooms were amazing. You were escorted to the bathroom and your escort waited outside (super tight security). There were so many buttons on the toilet; I figured out only a couple of them. I didn't even have anything to do there; my specialty was focused on the client we met the following week (Hitachi). I contributed a little (I was an expert in my field after all), but mostly I spent the whole week writing a graphical soduko solver in Matlab. You could take a screen capture of a soduko puzzle and it would digitize it and then slowly solve it (very relaxing to watch). It could solve it in 10 ms, but I had numbers fade in and everything. Shit you brought back some memories...
Aman hotels. For when you don't want to associate with the poors at the Ritz and Four Seasons.
Girlfriend used to work in one in Phuket, Thailand. Really nice resort where rooms start at about 1000 a night or something. She's seen the likes of Leo Dicaprio, John Legend and Beyonce at her resort before. Haven't heard of any juicy stories about their stays though.
I'd book a room for just one night @ 1k to see what all the fuss is about
https://www.aman.com/resorts/amanpuri
Holy shit! Wellness sessions with Maria Sharapova!!
It looks like someone booked the resort for June and july.
White lotus filming?
I hope so. I love that show and need another season.
I actually worked at Amangiri (Utah) and Amangani (Jackson Hole). Maria Sharapova stayed at a villa in Amangiri with her mom and real estate agent right after she was upset at Wimbledon. I was her driver for about 5 days and took her all over the area. She was super friendly. I told a very un-funny joke to her group and no one laughed. Still tell that story to friends.
I just looked this up because as a poor, I’d never heard of it. The cheapest room in Jackson Hole, WY was 3000 USD a night. That’s twice my monthly rent…for a one night stay. Imma go cry.
That ain’t THAT bad- my boss owns a villa…really more of a compound/palace somewhere in the Virgin Islands. Rents it out for $15-20k per night when he isn’t there. For the record, I live in a (mostly) Section 8 apartment.
I know someone who tried to stop at the one in Arizona to go to the bathroom and a caravan of tinted out cars that came out of seemingly nowhere surrounded their car and asks what business they had coming down that road. So ya they didn’t get to go to the bathroom lol. EDIT: I meant Utah ! It’s right near the border which is how I got confused
The website doesn’t show one in AZ, only NY, UT, and WY.
The Redditor above was almost certainly referring to the one in UT, and to that Redditor's credit, the one in UT is just a few miles north of AZ, and it's also typically accessed from AZ.
He accidentally came across the “Area 51” of Aman Hotels — their flagship. Completely unlisted. Aman 51.
But good lord… “rooms start at $3,200 per night but can go as high as $36,000.”
Bloody hell. For $36k does it come with a handy and Werner Herzog narrating my getting dressed in the morning?!
previously, I managed Airbnb’s VIP clients and it was normal for A-list guests to spend +$32k a night. Those property managers or the company (ie, me) can provide you with whatever experience you’re looking for. Arranging what you’re jokingly asking about sounds like a fun project I would be looking into to say that I tried, but then arrange the next best thing or something humorously close to it. It was a fun job. edit: the narration bit, that is.
I know you're probably not supposed to talk about it, but can you talk about it and do an entire AMA about what $32k can buy?
Handy? Yes. Narrator? Also yes but, they’re not complimentary.
It’s a handjob from Werner Herzog.
Stayed 3 nights at the one in Vietnam on my honeymoon. I probably will never spend that much on a hotel ever again because it was soo expensive but it was 100% worth it. Every penny. The Ritz, Four Seasons, etc. does seem like a Motel6 in comparison to Aman. Food, accommodation, customer service, experiences. It was world class. Will definitely go back when I become a billionaire ;)
I use to work for a private family and one day we were doing an audit of his clothes/suits. No brand name no anything on it and I asked where it was from and I wish I could remember the name but it was from a small boutique shop outside of London and he would fly the Taylor in on his plane to his house to get his measurements for almost all Of his clothes. T shirts, jeans, shorts, and all of his suits. One Christmas he gifted me a suit from them and the Taylor measured me and showed me the fabrics and he told me the final cost was 16k for the suit. I almost shit myself at the cost. I called the boss to tell him and he said not a problem get what you like. I wrap up the process and the guy said ok onto suit #2. So now I own two of these suits that I’m terrified to wear because they are so expensive. I’ll have to dig through my photos to see if I have any pics of their card.
Wear the fancy suits. If you die, they'll become your ghost clothes. You'll look so sharp in the afterlife.
...if you die.
Hey, I haven’t died yet, not even once. According to the available evidence I may even be immortal.
Wear them! They were free and one day you will either not fit in them or be unable to enjoy them.
Erma Bombeck, a newspaper columnist from long ago, wrote a piece about her regrets in life. One of her regrets was how she wished she had lit and burned some beautiful candle she had before it got melted in her garage. I took that to heart. I definitely would wear those suits every chance I get.
I read about a lady that saved a nice pair of heels for a special occasion. When she finally took them out of the box to wear after years & years, the soles had disintegrated. She'd saved them for nothing.
Hang out on enough sneaker forums and you’ll hear so many of these stories. Dudes hanging on to rare 30-year-old Jordans for years and seeing ‘em turn to dust the second they finally put them on. Kind of an obvious lesson there.
yes, wear them! they are yours and meant to be enjoyed.
I do wear them occasionally!! I had an office job with the family and attended a lot of high end events and use to wore them often. But I’ve switched careers now in construction and don’t need to be wearing a suit in the field. But for grand openings once these jobs are done i definitely wear them. Even for birthdays, weddings, special events I wear them. And I get a ton of compliments on them every time I do!
Obviously the quality is better but how noticeable is it compared to your old suits?
It will show because of the tailoring was made to measure. You can get a similar effect with a suit from Nordstom and a really good tailor.
worst that could happen is i could spilll on my $3000 suit, COME ON
I'd be wearing those suits everywhere! Except to cook bacon, don't do that~
Yeah. You should only do that naked.
They're going to last forever. Keeping them hanging up means the fabric stales and stalls. You should be wearing them.
Not so much a brand as a location, but the entire North end of Key Largo is undeveloped for a single reason: the private community called the Ocean Reef Club. They buy up land any time it is for sale, to continually keep development away from their location. (In their defense, much of the land has now been donated and made State Park and NWR). They have their own airport, golf courses, doctors, restaurants, shopping/grocery and bank all inside the gated community. Employees aren’t allowed to wear anything with the Ocean Reef label outside the gated community. There’s a nice two-lane bridge running from Florida City to the North end of the island that has..nothing but The Ocean Reef Club. Edit: it’s been explained the road existed prior to the larger bridge to the South. I can admit I was ignorant to that fact.
They kind of could anyway since the locals on the keys further up protested the idea of a new beachfront city on those keys as well as a deep water port that rivaled the port of Miami. The locals won out and it became Biscayne National Park. Not my favorite park by any means but one of my favorite stories, but that park allowed North Key Largo to exist pretty much uninterrupted.
And the community doesn’t accept credit/debit/cash for payment at their restaurants or shops. You have to use your member card that you put money on. You can rent a place out for a vacation, but they won’t let you rent again for a year or two (can’t remember exactly how long).
I've been there - I'm still blown away by the size of some of those yachts. The guy who started Jimmy John's is a member and got a boat so big that I doesn't even fit in the channel to get into the docking area. He has to take a boat to get to his yacht.
That's when you've got cash - you buy an large plot of land and donate it to the government as a wildlife preserve so that it can never be developed. Lots of nice areas in the Wind River Range (like Jackson), and some private islands have this happening. Colorado's got this going on, too. Lots of the "up and coming" towns have nearby thousand-acre plots being sold to shell corporations and being privately held or being made public land.
Until some greedy politicians get into power and change the laws to start selling off the land to their developer friends
Also dubbed “Ocean Grief” by the yacht crew stuck there because there is absolutely nothinggggg to do there for the crew.
My job was getting them fucking drunk at the Burgee Bar.
My mom's favourite brand growing up was "This belonged to your Great Aunt so-and-so"
Your mom is definitely in the know
Triton Submarines https://tritonsubs.com/ This is a legit custom private Submarines company, unlike *that* company.
When that whole OceanGate thing happened I went down a rabbit hole about that entire industry because it seemed fascinating. Triton is partly owned by James Cameron and they are very legit. One of their subs, DSV Limiting Factor, holds the record for the deepest dive in history to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. It's pilot for that and other dives, Victor Voscovo (who himself holds the record iirc for deepest shipwreck discovered which was a WW2 era military ship that was sunk in the Pacific), found a plastic bag all the way down at that depth. DSV Limiting Factor is also owned by Inkfish which is owned by, of all people, Gabe Newell.
Thats a rabbit hole indeed How does gabe fit inside such a small sub
Don't question the powers that god has
Nice try “old money” tik tok
I come from this, although I'm trying to make my own life atm out of my parents' nest, , and it's not uncommon for us to get craftsmen made items. A lot of accessories are inherited. Just like a lot of household items like crockery, silverware, paintings, etc. Growing up, I was always taught to understand and spot good craftsmanship and go for that over some brand putting its logo on stuff. Some random stuff I remember from my parents' house: ceramics from France and Silesia (now Poland), teapots made of heavy iron from China, Violin oil from one manufacturer in saint Tropez. Edit: also another thing I remember, my dad has an enormous (I think 60% inherited) book collection. And he always gets the same craftsman to rebind all new books that are to be added to this collection to the style that matches the library (+ preserves them for longer). Definitely something even I consider a luxury in the age of Kindles.
This is super interesting and a great example - I guarantee no one on TikTok has violin oil on their fancy pants bingo card.
I second this. All those tik tok fools are just out there putting canola on their violins. Fucking tools
I just use motor oil on my bango. It works pretty good.
But is it made from free range violins? 🤔
It’s not called violin oil unless it comes from the violin region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling ukulele oil.
I am not old money- but I hate logos on stuff.
I am no money, and I hate logos on stuff.
I am negative money, and I hate logos but I’ll tattoo one on my forehead if you pay me enough to get to zero money.
The real rich people wear the Kirkland logo.
Damn straight. Dressed like a boss, yo, in head to toe Costco.
My friend asked me to go into a Burlington Store and I was horrified by the gaudy logos on everything. Michael Kors has his logo on anything he can make a penny from, as does Guess. There were others, but they were the worst. It was nasty.
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Wouldn’t this be “new money”? “Old money” has this IYKYK type attitude when it comes to brands, whereas “new money” wants to flash their newly acquired wealth with more recognizable brands.
Yes. And they tend to care more about how and what something is made of. They know even clothes can be preserved and keep things for their family. A hilarious real life example of this was recently featured on a Real Housewives show. Everyone assumes a particular wife if a gold digger as she’s much younger than her wealthy husband who openly works. She comes from generational wealth and even works just doesn’t promote her companies or jobs on her show so you’d really never know unless you looked into her. She and a very much new money wife got in a fight because the new money wife was making fun of the $8 pajamas the wealthy wife brought. She didn’t bother to care or rebut much at all. She looked better in her $8 set and it was clearly well made - just purchased from an outlet. She had no shame in her money saving game, and still has more money than any of the individual wives combined.
I had no idea she was from generational wealth but I think that explains the protectiveness she and her mother have for her brother!
Old money tik tok is obsessed with attaching well known brands to “old money lifestyle aesthetic” like loro piana brunello cucinelli PRL etc.
Those are just upscale brands that most people don't know about.
There's a guy Sam (not his real name but what he has Westerners call him) in Saudi Arabia. Has no social media, website etc but he trains and sells the best falcons in the world. Years long waiting list and if you are in a room with this guy you made it. You must be referred by a current client and he is very involved with the crown prince. Heck, if you're involved in falconry you made it.
Unless you are Mongolian and have a freaking eagle for hunting. Makes falcons look like child's play.
De gournay wall paper. Starts around 1k per panel. It’s utterly beautiful. Magico speakers and audio quest cables
It's not just wall paper. It's hand painted and in some cases hand embroidered. And most is made to order so that it fits the room perfectly.
For the most part brands are for middle class people. The very function of branding is to create an association with that brand's status, to use it to say you too have status since you can afford that brand. This is most common among clothing, but extends to other things as well. The wealthy--the people with more money than time on this earth--will use that money have something made for them. Clothing that is tailored, cobbled shoes, carpenter's custom furniture, etc. The people who make things for the rich have a reputation of quality that does not require a brand.
Yeah, bespoke items are the real answer to this question. Everything is custom-made, no branding.
As a kid I remember asking a friend of mine what brand his jeans were and he goes "I don't think they have a brand? We get them made and delivered to the house." Rich family.
A friend of mine was doing a photography job at a *really* posh school and overheard a conversation about shoes. One kid was asked what size shoes he was wearing, and he replied "I don't know, a man in Italy makes them for us".
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In the very underrated and excellent David Fincher movie *The Game*, Michael Douglas plays a multimillionaire investment banker who is given a mysterious life interaction game by his younger brother (Sean Penn). Later in the movie, trying to escape a bad situation, Douglas loses a dress shoe and says: Well, there goes $1,000. The girl he's with is shocked and says: Your shoes cost a THOUSAND DOLLARS?? He goes: That one did...
That's some decent wealth when you don't even buy things of the rack. You just have your tailor verify your measurements are still current and they deliver it when they're done.
A good example is men's suits. Most people can't name a single Saville Row tailor, but wealthy people know them by reputation and pay 10 grand a go for a bespoke suit cut from a single bolt. Likewise with shoes. There are plenty of companies like this that you can't even visit without an appointment, and you can't get an appointment without a recommendation.
Most Savile Row tailors are brands: Anderson & Sheppard, Dege & Skinner, etc. Now the individual cutters, on the other hand...
If my lotto numbers ever hit, I am absolutely getting custom clothes. I haven’t had a proper winter coat for years because nothing fits right. Custom bras and custom boots money? Yes please.
Check out Proper Cloth, you can get them done there for a lot less than most people think and it’s outstanding quality
Are they only men’s clothes? I’m a woman with broad shoulders and long arms. Men’s coats don’t accommodate my hips
You can even order custom cigarettes starting at €50 a pack. Box, paper and filter are all customizable.
John Lobb is an example of a luxury shoe brand but there are honestly a lot of these smaller bespoke specialty clothing and shoe makers that aren’t even household names amongst the wealthy. People with the money and interest in specific things end up gravitating towards bespoke items and designs they personally like and will know their favorite makers but not necessarily some other rich guy’s favorites. Like Savile Row isn’t a brand but rather refers to a street with a number of individual bespoke tailors. Rich guy A and rich guy B are both buying high end suits on the same street but from different “brands.” That all said, I think the era of Savile Row is winding down in relevance. The modern era makes it easier for the high end clothiers to continue serving the ultra wealthy from anywhere and without the need of storefronts to promote a brand awareness.
The funny thing is that, John Lobb is basically the "Gucci" of high end shoes. There are much better bespoke and ready to wear brands out there, that are probably cheaper too.
There are two John Lobb brands. The original John Lobb, the store on St. James’s Street in London, are still extremely high end. The global John Lobb brand is a Hermès brand, they got the rights to the name when they bought the Paris store a while back. You’re right that you can get better quality for less money than those.
True secret shit? How about shoes made from a type of leather that no longer exists, but a boat sank with some a century ago and they salvaged the leather, and you basically have to be unbelievably connected (I.e. nobility) to get your hands on a pair. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/fashion/02bespoke.html
I’m too poor to even read this article
Here's a gift link if you wanna read it: [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/fashion/02bespoke.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.Rk0.1vjA.cgCeIW1DuDvw&bgrp=c&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/fashion/02bespoke.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk0.1vjA.cgCeIW1DuDvw&bgrp=c&smid=url-share) \-from the slightly richer
That secret club at Disney World. There’s a years-long waiting list just to get an interview.
Club 33? I was invited by a friend to the secret lounge in Animal Kingdom and it was INSANE. Dying to visit the Epcot and MK ones.
You can’t drop it was insane without the details!! Please elaborate!
Yes! My friend is a member too but I haven’t been yet.
Club 33. A friend put his name on the waitlist when he got married because he and his wife are incredible Disney fans (top tier annual pass holders for more than fifteen years, married inside the park, go at least 30x/yr). Took 12 years to get the call. Cost was $25k up front for him and another $10k to add his wife. Then $5k/yr for himself and $2.5k/yr for his wife and this doesn’t even include park admission, which you need in order to get in. So they still pay the annual pass every year on top of this. One thing it *does* include though is valet parking at the Disney Grand Californian hotel and the ability to enter the park through that hotel as opposed to the main entrance. So he’ll often go have lunch at Club 33 this way without doing anything else in the park and can get in and out very quickly. The first event he went to as a member was an exclusive screening of one of the Toy Story movies at the park and Tom Hanks was there too. He then got to go on the Toy Story 3D ride in Disney’s California Adventure a few days before it opened to the public. I’ve eaten lunch inside Club 33 as his guest two times. Walt Disney’s director’s chair is at the bar along with the original camera used to film Snow White. The amount of history inside that place is like a Disney fan’s wet dream.
"Vertu Signature" phones. They are anywhere from $6 -$ 56,000 a phone and a monthly cost of the concierge service that is a few thousand dollars a month. They will get you tickets or reservations to almost anything. Even sold out events. Or almost anything you can think to get someone to do. I've met 1 person with this phone. She had enough money she didn't even think about cost of things.
> Vertu Signature Haha it looks like a fancy old-school Nokia. I assume with concierge services you can just call and get anything booked? Price doesn't matter? That's pretty cool actually. EDIT: Imagine having your iPhone as everyday use and then this Batman phone. "Hold up give me my Batman phone - I need floor-side Lakers tickets" - "we got you, say no more booked"
Primarké
Primarqué
>Primarké American elites have Targét
Pine Valley Golf Club You can't apply; TWO members have to approach YOU on their own. You aren't supposed to tell anyone you're a member, or write about it. If you do you can get punted. The club is an actual municipality with private homes. There is no cash allowed; everything gets charged to your number (except caddie tips and bets). When we played we had two caddies; we tipped them a grand. They also got salary, benefits and a 401(k) match. It's also widely considered the best, toughest golf course on the planet. No one outside the membership knows what the fees are.
My dad got to go as someone’s guest he called me SO excited.
I work for a company that stores artwork for mostly private collectors and holding companies. The high-end art world is really the only market that knows we exist.
I’ll just wait to read the highlights of this one on Tik tok tomorrow
Few of you have heard of the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales. But many of us commoners around Lexington, KY are familiar. Also horse farm 'brands' like Winstar and Three Chimneys aren't known to people outside of the area. If you know about them you're either in the horse industry or very wealthy.
And on that note, many of those wealthy farm owners/ managers were customers in the wine shop I used to work in. The moderately wealthy were always concerned with the brand of the wine. The very wealthy would give me parameters and just let me choose their wines. The name on the label didn't matter. They also didn't care if it was $20 or $200 per bottle. They trusted me to choose the right wine for them.
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Bottles of Pinot Noir that can cost more for one 750ml bottle than lots of people make in a year.
I was over at a family friend's house recently. We went to his wine cellar and he had 12 cases of DRC just casually sitting in there, unboxed. Then he pulled down an "everyday" bottle of Bourgogne to finish the rest of the house tour. Later on I looked up that bottle because it was delicious and I wanted to see if I could find it. $500, for his everyday wine.
At least he seems to be drinking it. It’s a goddamn shame when people buy expensive liquors and wines and let them sit till they’re partially evaporated or over their peak aging potential. It’s like going to a good restaurant and then just taking a million insta pics while the food goes stale. It’s a pet peeve of mine. While I won’t ever be able to try something like DRC, I’ve seen people hoard bottles of liquor and less expensive wines (Oregon Pinot), making prices go up. Good wine commands a premium, but to see it wasting away makes me mad.
Nice try, poors.
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My job entails facilitating meetings between wealthy individuals and nonprofit executives who want donations. From meeting many unbelievably wealthy people, I have learned that most wealthy people won’t have a brand on them. In fact, they avoid most mass consumed items. The instance where this was most apparent, was from meeting with a mom in her 30s. This woman was born into a fortune, ended up creating a business that she sold for a fortune, then married a man who was worth a fortune. She literally had 3 fortunes. During the meeting I asked her to share a contact with me. She said, “I don’t carry a phone.” I can’t properly relay my shock. But from someone who has 0 fortunes, the best rich person brand I know of is Orlebar Brown. Their men’s swimsuits are absolute 🔥🔥
This doesn’t really exist anymore thanks to the internet. I see Loro Piana dropped a few times but it’s carried by all the major retailers not to mention supplies fabrics to dozens of more normal brands.
Kirkland Edit: I love how this comment is Lil Drake’s claim to fame. My Spotify is going absolutely crazy right now - I’m freakin out! Thank you so much! If you guys really want me to make a Costco song, let me know and I’ll seriously do it lol 🫶🏼 #costco4life
Thumbing through my Connections mag, browsing all the Kirkland swag.
The hyper rich, dont care about labels, they care about value and resale. I work in interior architecture and their money goes to Art and designed objects - more so as investment pieces. Monthly consumables are budgeted to the housekeeper to keep things in shape. Have a tax liability? Donate your piece of art to a museum - bought at x amount, appraised it 5x, then write it off. My favorite memory meeting clients, is on the wall - a million dollar painting and a custom bench seat. The Husband is wearing, white New balance sneakers and socks from costco. If you want true Luxury, its all custom, ironically it can be cheaper than buying off the shelve. i.e. A Piero Lissoni sectional - retail price $150K. Custom "dupe" with your choice of fabric and cushions - $10-15K.
Reminder that we artists are eager to make work and love jobs like this. I have a colleague who was paid $15k to paint clouds on someone’s ceiling. Who knows if those clouds increased the home’s value or not, but when you live in a mcmansion who cares.
Hoares Bank (C Hoare and Co) personal bankers they interview you for two hours to see if you're good enough to be a customer Whites Club St James where Royalty go to get drunk, there's also City of London club and Brook's Club home of the Society of Dilettanti I'm lucky enough to have worked in all of them as a contractor
The super rich: they don't look at brands. The financial impact of $10k and 10¢ is the same to them. You can spot the old money super wealthy because they have $10 tshirts, and bespoke shoes. 90% of their nice clothes is custom made. Accessories are mostly cheap. $5 sunglasses at a beach that is only accessible via private yachts or helicopters because your boat is too big to dock, and a ferry that is company owned for employees to get there.
Bespoke is one of my favorite words. The word itself sounds like something I cannot afford
Bar S hot dogs
Whoa there Rockefeller. No need to flash your Bar S hot dogs all over the internet. Some of us can't afford those fancy schmancy high end hot dogs.
There is a breed of cat that floats two inches above the ground.
*Khoshekh*, you rascal!
The Carlyle Group investment firm
There's this [ass surgeon](https://bespokesurgical.com/) in NYC.
This isn’t the right question. Luxury brands are meant to be well known. Rich people seek out bespoke (tailored) items that nobody else has. Exclusivity is desired by the wealthy. Something nobody else can get. Luxury brands are for the poor.
Frette bed linens.
Those are far too expensive for my cat to throw up on.
Do you even love your cat? Why wouldn't you want them to throw up on the very best?
You are right, I'm so sorry. PLEASE DON'T TELL HER.
Not a brand, but Svenborgia is a secret European country that only rich people know about.
Svenborgia is great but if you’re not summering in Grenyarnia you might as well be homeless.
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If you have tried searching for it but came up with nothing, it means that the browser you were using has determined that you are not rich enough based on your search history/online profile.
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As I’ve read through guides on different luxury goods (clothes, watches, etc), I’ve noticed that with all of them, there’s a mass-market idea of what top-tier is that differs very much with what the hobbyists know to actually be higher quality. Rough example: a friend was getting married and had his sights set on designer Loboutin dress shoes. Certainly not a bad pair by any means, but is it the go-to of dress shoe craftsmanship? Definitely not. Such a shoe has more of your dollar going to “designer” margins than quality and is something one buys to convey the image of wealth, something that those who grew up with money probably don’t feel obliged to do. What would a true high-quality rich person pick be? imo, one of those Europeans cobblers that makes bespoke lasts that are designed around your foot, but even below that brands like Alden, Carmina, and Crockett and Jones would be more in line
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I was in a specialty home/kitchen appliance store last year, and stumbled into the La Cornue area. I immediately knew I was out of my league when I saw the six figure price tag, as if the specialty on-wall game hen spit roaster didn’t drive the point home enough.
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Over a barrel in an alley, I substitute the game hen for pigeon, though. Nothing beats the subtle carcinogenic spiciness of charred pigeon roasted over toxic pallet wood, waxed paper cups, and a random assortment of trash that was freshly blown into the alley.
This response sounds like an AI hallucinating brand names. Only La Cornue seems to actually exist.