BLACK FRIDAY LISTS
SPY’S fantasy Christmas shopping lists
When money is truly not a factor
Marc Newsom Horizon watch in red-gold, $24,000
Ralph Lauren Channing Stag candlesticks $1995
SMEG 50’S style refrigerator, $1995
Pastoe vision cabinet $17,900
Marcello de Cartier bag for daily essentials $12,200
Dolce & Gabbana’s men’s sneakers $575
Alexander Olch handmade ties $140
David Yuman’s bead necklaces $5,400
Show her you know the latest Parisian colors
Jean-Gabriel Causse has designed T-shirts in mythic shades: the raspberry color of Berthillon ice cream, the brown of the Mona Lisa’s eyes, the black of Beluga caviar, the bright white of the sand on Hyams Beach, Australia.
Christian Lacroix fuchsia pumps $795
Bon voyage
For that holiday cruise:
Louis Vuitton leather cruiser bag, $1,700
MCM New Munich Lion shopper $795
Goyard Palace trunk $6,629
Hermes Faubourg Express suitcase $4,825
If I win the lottery
The Eclipse 500, the world’s first very light jet (vlj) breaks speed records: $1.6 million
Gadgets
Vertu’s Ascent Ti phone (titanium and sapphire crystal) $6,300
Porsche mobile phone with fingerprint ID system $1700
Giorgia Armani’s Samsung phone $925
DVD Direct’s gadget transfers photos, VHS, etc to DVD $229
Vacations
Pure Maui concierge service offers pampered one-week stays $6,000
How to tell the rich from the merely affluent (according to Time)
A wish list for the rich would include:
1. Jeff Koons’ Blue Diamond sculpture, about $12 million
2. Quintessentially concierge extreme outings, eg, the Amazon
3. Magnum of 1961 Petrus Pomerol, $160,000
4. Gustav Klimt’s 1907 canvas of Adele Bloch-Bauer
5. Exclusive resorts journey to the kingdom of Bhutan
6. Gulfstreams’s G550 jet, the preferred mode of travel
7. A 50-carat emerald-cut diamond from Cellini Jewelers
8. Renting Richard Branson’s Caribbean Necker Island
For the outdoorsman
Pinarello Prince bicycle $5,000
Yamaha Nytro snowmobile $5,000
The Best of Everything (according to Men’s Journal)
Best uncrowded wave, Nelscott Reef, Lincoln City, OR
Also great untapped surf: Silverbacks, Bocas del Torro, Panama
-- and Cow Bay, Nova Scotia
Best rock climb: Thaiwand, Railay Beach, Thailand
Best view from bed: Jade Mountain, St Lucia
Best American surfer: 19-yr old Karina Petroni, Panama
Best new diver: USS Oriskany, scuttled off Pensacola
Best lion safari: Porini Lion Camp, Kenya $1,140 for two nights
Best tiger safari: Taj Safaria, Madyha Pradesh, India, $18,000 two weeks
Best kayak safari: Malawi, $5,595 for 11 days (inc hiking)
Best stunt: glacier surfing, Alaska
Best whitewater, Cherry Creek, Upper Tuolumne, CA
Best wilderness lodge: Nimmo Bay Resort, BC $2,195 per day
Best whiskey: Thomas H Handy sazarec rye
Best new golf course: Osprey Meadows, Tamarack ID
Incredible Tours
Icebergs in Northern Labrador
Sailing the Peruvian Amazon
The Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The Glacier Path, New Zealand
Some Christmas Do Nots (else you sleep on the couch)
Do not give her a scale
Do not give her plug in appliances unless she requested it
Do not give her a gift that is really for you
Do not giver her a gift someone else gave you
Do not give her a gift in colors she hates
Do not give gifts which suggest she is do for a makeover
Do not give fake diamonds and try to pass them off as real
Skip gag gifts and gifts which scream “cheap”
Do not give perfumes, other scents unless you know it’s “her”
Gals: do not give shirts; shirts say you have no imagination
Is this the right time for a “significant” gift – could be a deal-maker or breaker
Do not give books that are over her head; if she wants complex, you will know it
Do not give the same gift to multiple girl friends (of boy friends); the Aly Khan rule
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