Christian Louboutin has created a special carrier bag that includes a bottle of champers and a crystal champagne flute shaped like a stiletto. The package, known as Le Rituel, costs $500, and you can watch a 3-minute film about it here.
I'm curious now as to whether or not my robe is manufactured by Blair. The sleeve (VERY BRIEFLY) caught on fire when I was taking something out of the oven--no part of the robe touched anything in the oven, either. #olsentwins
I'm not surprised that Louboutin would turn down a diffusion line.
Wow, Blahnik really hates platforms, yeah? This is like the 3rd time I've read about his hate for them. #olsentwins
@femme-bot: I know. I'm starting to wonder if it's a grade school thing. So, maybe he's always publicly pulling Platform's hair. But I think what he REALLY wants, in his heart of hearts, is for Platform to keep him warm on his long, cold, dark nights of the sole.
That's a comfortable moccasin that you can drink sparkling wine out of while watching bad TV movies at 3AM, right? If so, I've been in the market, and Etsy has provided no help. #olsentwins
You know, it has come to the point in which I don't care about this one way or the other. We're naked apes, sex is a normal social interaction, and we live in a world with twisted social expectations.
Sex in exchange for goods/services seems to be an ever-present thing.
What disturbs me(not necessarily surprises me) is the gender disparity. If middle-aged women were as common as men (or vice-versa) in these relationships maybe I wouldn't find them as distasteful.
Should have cheery disposition, will support you in costuming business. PR / media-relations skills a requirement. Must fit into rabbit suit and policeman mask, preferably simultaneously.
So the site seems pretty repulsive, but I don't really like judging these relationships.
I mean, I've had really fucked up relationships for really bad reasons- I'd be hard pressed to say that the relationships described in the article are somehow "worse" than some of the shit I've been involved in.
And I really don't want people judging the foundations of my relationships, much less writing NYT articles about it.
@Vermontboy: Yes, in total agreement here. Relationships are fucked up in all kinds of ways. Ones involving an obvious material element just have something glaring you can point at and judge.
You think a Sugar Daddy is going to let you sit around eating bon-bons, getting fat? I don't think so. You've got to keep up your end of the bargain, too, which means acting however your Daddy wants you to.
I offer that sometimes it's just interesting to read what other types of relationship approaches are out there -- especially when your own experience tends to hug the norm. Celibacy, polyamory, sugar babies -- it's almost always interesting to see how people manage to make that work in their lives. It expands one's mind beyond the contours of one's own experience.
@skahammer: Actually I'd compare it to stories about "fuck buddies."
I'd never had a relationship like that, and I'd never heard anyone speak openly about it, either -- not in those terms, anyway. But when I started reading articles about it a few years ago, I found it intriguing to know that that was an option my peers and I had. I might never have thought about that issue otherwise. Same here.
I very rarely toss out the "jus jellus" argument, but in this case, I think that some of the fascination could stem from that. It comes down to a basic theory: When someone has something that I want and cannot have, I feel better knowing that they got it in a way I can look down upon.
I feel disgusting for having said that, but I know that I sometimes fall prey to it. Reading about women who have their education paid for/pay for their own, or have fantastic cars and vacations and things because they earned it (or came by it "honestly") makes me jealous, but not in an unhealthy way. It makes me feel worse about my own very minor successes, though, because why can't I have what they have?
Reading about women who had to sleep with someone to get all of the above things causes that sick should-be-silenced little voice to say, hmph! They didn't deserve all that.
I think in times when many many people are struggling, reading about excesses feeds a certain desire for schadenfreude.
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I hope that they intended it to be pronounced a la Flavor Flav, because it is now permanently etched that way in my brain.
"Olsen-boyyyyeee" #olsentwins
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Wow, Blahnik really hates platforms, yeah? This is like the 3rd time I've read about his hate for them. #olsentwins
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That's a comfortable moccasin that you can drink sparkling wine out of while watching bad TV movies at 3AM, right? If so, I've been in the market, and Etsy has provided no help. #olsentwins
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I would too, but only if I could make race car noises while doing it. #olsentwins
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Sex in exchange for goods/services seems to be an ever-present thing.
What disturbs me(not necessarily surprises me) is the gender disparity. If middle-aged women were as common as men (or vice-versa) in these relationships maybe I wouldn't find them as distasteful.
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Should have cheery disposition, will support you in costuming business. PR / media-relations skills a requirement. Must fit into rabbit suit and policeman mask, preferably simultaneously.
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I mean, I've had really fucked up relationships for really bad reasons- I'd be hard pressed to say that the relationships described in the article are somehow "worse" than some of the shit I've been involved in.
And I really don't want people judging the foundations of my relationships, much less writing NYT articles about it.
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I'd never had a relationship like that, and I'd never heard anyone speak openly about it, either -- not in those terms, anyway. But when I started reading articles about it a few years ago, I found it intriguing to know that that was an option my peers and I had. I might never have thought about that issue otherwise. Same here.
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I feel disgusting for having said that, but I know that I sometimes fall prey to it. Reading about women who have their education paid for/pay for their own, or have fantastic cars and vacations and things because they earned it (or came by it "honestly") makes me jealous, but not in an unhealthy way. It makes me feel worse about my own very minor successes, though, because why can't I have what they have?
Reading about women who had to sleep with someone to get all of the above things causes that sick should-be-silenced little voice to say, hmph! They didn't deserve all that.
I think in times when many many people are struggling, reading about excesses feeds a certain desire for schadenfreude.