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That depressing T magazine arrived yesterday

March 1st, 2010

I love this magazine/I hate this magazine

It comes with the morning paper and sometimes even dethrones my morning addiction, the crossword. I just have to flip through the super-thin pages, look at the gorgeous women and see what they are, or are not, wearing before my breathing returns to normal. Of course this is all about money.

How much money do I need?

Let’s say I wanted to buy everything in the magazine, what are we talking about, a hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, a million, more than a million? It’s not important. No matter how much it will cost, I haven’t got it. And if I continue not buying Lotto tickets, it’s unlikely that I will ever have it.

What I really want

So I page through the magazine looking for something that I really want from the huge selection of expensive items. Chanel? Nah, not even the woman with the rope around her waist and definitely not the guy. Prada? I can’t see the model’s face. Louis Vuitton? Nope! Rolex? This one is different, both the model and the watch are possibilities. I’ll put them both on my wish-list. Salvatore Ferragamo? No thanks. And a note to the model – those shoes will break your ankles, dear. And so it goes. The models are gorgeous, mostly knock-kneed and all a little on the anorexic side.

The ads

The photographers are super creative and the many watches advertised are all smiling at ten minutes to ten. The Mercedes SLS AMG looks stunning with its gull-wing doors (and a price tag of about $200,000). With snow piling up in the yard outside, the beautiful picture in the India ad is a magnet – I would go for that at the drop of a hat. It may even be affordable.

Watch ads

I was fascinated at the watch by Avakian because it’s difficult to tell the time on it, so I went to their website to explore further. The website wasn’t working… I liked the Chopard watch, not that I would ever be seen wearing anything like this. I went to their website to investigate and had a great deal of trouble finding the watch advertised in the magazine. Then I tried to find a price on the internet. I gave up eventually, but it’s interesting to note that the replica watch distributors have better websites than the genuines. I remain watchless…

The articles

I even read a few of the articles. I was surprised too. “Boy Meets Girl” explains what’s going on in the world of fashion and also made it clear why I am “just not with it”. I enjoyed the article and interview with Julianne Moore.

Chopin

And on the back page I found what I was looking for – a trip to Warsaw to “Take a walk and follow the steps of Chopin in Warsaw”. It will be the 200^th anniversary of Chopin’s birth close Warsaw in Poland. Now to find a reasonably priced tour…

Tags: Fashion, Mercedes, Models, The T magazine, Travel, Watches
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My “Feel-Rich” magazine arrived this morning

November 23rd, 2009

This is the cheapest “Pick-me-up” I know
The New York Times “T” magazine was delivered with my copy of the International Herald Tribune this morning, making my day. I can’t think of anything else that lifts me into another class the way the ads and the articles in this magazine do. I guess it’s because it advertises all sorts of items that I would not normally buy and features articles about all sorts of exotic places that I will probably never visit. Whatever, I read it from cover to cover, ads and all.

The watches
The watch ads are what get me really turned on. I haven’t worn a watch for about 10 years now, mainly because I am either in front of the computer which shows the time, or busy with a cell-phone which does the same. A watch is an unnecessary accessory. But that doesn’t stop me from looking at them and often wishing that I had one, especially one of the new-look hi-tech models. I could really go for that black Chopard that sells for about $6,000. For a change the Rolex ad has no picture of a watch but of filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the names of some other greats who wear Rolex watches. Maybe I’ll arrive one day…

Phnom Penh
I enjoyed this article. I have traveled in Thailand, set foot into Laos, and longed to visit Vietnam, often described at the most beautiful country in the world. Cambodia has never featured in my plans and the John Bowe’s article came as an eye-opener and made me move Phnom Penh up a couple of notches on my “places-to-visit’ list. The wealthy among us do not keep such lists, they simply go.

Hotel Stationery
This article is stunning. Whenever we stay over in a hotel, my wife comes home with little bottles of shampoo and miniature soaps in fancy wrappers, but whoever thought of collecting the little note pads that hotels place next to the phone in case you have to jot down a number in a hurry? Eric Torkells’ article opened a whole new world, not only about the collecting part of the notebooks but the creating of a record of one’s hotel stays. Staying in hotels always makes me feel wealthy and it’s a nice break from cadging beds from friends.

The fashion mobile phone
It had to happen, of course. The cell phone is now part of the fashion world. The one-page ad by a company called Vertu showing a hand holding a cell phone took me by surprise, but all that means is none of my children or their children own one of these fashion phones. I Googled it. Vertu is a British-based manufacturer and retailer of luxury mobile phones. The company is an independently run, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia. Their phones look good on their website. I will probably never change my first generation job for one of these. But like the watches, they look great!

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