21st Feb 2006
Carnivale of the Couture
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The good, stylish people over at I Am Fashion are hosting Carnivale of the Couture VII and recently posted their topic. Their “if-only-it-were-true” scenario is as follows.
Suprise darling! You have just won the lottery! How will you, the super fabulous fashionable blogger, spend your US$10m winnings? Tell us all about your money-spending plan!!
So, I’ve decided to post my response here, and welcome everyone else to do the same! I Am Fashion will link to all the responses periodically, but the deadline is Friday.
Some people are being all philanthropic or responsible and saying they’d pay of student loans and stuff. And someone mentioned that after taxes it’s something like 6 million. But, hel-lo, this is a fantasy. I am restricting myself to frivolous, fashionable purchases and not worrying about the tax (or the math for that matter, I’m guestimating.)
For my biggest expenditure, I would create my own fashion label and invite all the rejected designers from Project Runway to come design for me.
So, the designers win, what? $200,000 on the show? And say 20 of them accept my invitation -so that’s 4 million.
Also as part of that venture, I would invite all the rejected girls from America’s Next Top Model to participate in our runway shows.
By this time I will obviously be a regular talking head on VHI, E! and Style and all the morning shows. So I would need a great wardrobe for each of my appearances. Since I cannot play favorites among my own design team, I would have to stick to more established designers. This would cost me at least $500,000, don’t you think? I don’t want to limit myself or anything.
The first fashion items I would buy on a trip to New York where I would stay in the Plaza (watching Eloise on a loop - corny or classic, your choice) would be a Hermes Birkin and some staple bags from Prada, Loius Vuitton and Chanel, sticking to the non-logo variety, thank-you-very-much. And I’d hit all the shoe stores - Louboutin, Jimmy Choo, and Manolo (hi, I’m 5′2″ - completely necessary). Neimans, Barney’s, Saks, etc. So lets say this first trip costs me another $300,000.
Then, in order to keep up with the collections, I would need 1 mill. abodes in NY, Paris, London and Milan. I’m up to 8.8 million.
I would also require year-round maintenance at the best salons. I’m talking biweekly highlights, hair and makeup at my beck and call, as well as weeklong refresher spa trips for me and my gal pals. 100,000.
I would also be able to afford to be totally animal friendly in my beauty purchases (you try it on a drugstore budget).
I think the rest I would spend on my friends, I know they’d be too jealous for words and wouldn’t be able to live with themselves if they didn’t get some designer duds of their own. I would also concede a non-fashion purchase and build my husband a music studio.
There, 10 million dollars. Done. In half an hour. On totally frivolous luxuries.
Should I be proud or ashamed?
- Andrea
Posted by Andrea @ 12:08 am
February 21st, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Strangely Kirk and I just discussed what we would do with $75,000 last night after watching the GG ep where it’s Lorelai’s birthday and Richard gives her that money. And we said student loans, credit cards and saving for a house. And a couple thou for a vacation. See? I can do frivolous too! Just not very well. But if you’re willing to spend some of that on friends then I totally second your well thought-out plan. After all, I am the girl who turned down a mom-offer for Steve Madden heels because I “already had one black pair of high heels.”