Factio Magazine is giving away a luxury 3-piece set of luggage by Heys USA (Retail Value: $980).

Katy Perry is big on The Blonds.

The Morgan Aero SuperSports is a lightweight aluminum sports car with a luxurious specification.

Target’s Bullseye Bazaar attracted buzz and celebs like Private Practice’s Kate Walsh and Gossip Girl co-stars Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick.

Domesticblog praises the Queen for treating her Domestic Staff right! The Queen applies to open bar in her Highland home.

When In London, Do As The Rock Stars Do…The Sanctum Soho will treat you like a rock star…even if you don’t want to be.

Factio Magazine checks out the hottest art/fashion party during Art Chicago – ART ROCKS!
Grave-robbing affects more than Astor-nomical estates. Domesticblog is saddened by the Astor money not going to charities…
Most expensive teddy bear at 500,000 pounds? If you buy it, you will also get Teddy’s (owner’s) home – a beamed cottage in Lavenham, a picturesque Medieval village.
Reiner Mengesdorf’s Organic Opulance…Greco-Roman and Byzantine inspired jewelry designs are infused both with organic style and dazzling beauty.
Bloomacious takes a look at the legacy of the famous racehorse in Remembering Barbaro.
Takashi Murakami and high-end retailer Louis Vuitton collaborated before, but according to Runway to Retail, the latest installation is quite something.
From pipemakers to fashion’s finest, the Classicist looks at the history of Longchamp.

Domesticblog is warning about the “behind-the-scenes” of serving the wealthy in Cityfile: Nelson and Claudia Peltzs House of Horrors, Part Two.
Factio Magazine is craving fashion, jewelry and vacations!
A kitchen by Armani? Lamps by Diesel? You bet! Fashion designers work their magic at Milan Furniture Fair.
Castillo del Lago, Madonna’s former home in the Hollywood Hills is for sale for $14.95 million.
Check out some of the coolest art+fashion events coming up during Art Chicago, May 1-4, 2009 on Runway to Retail.
UFO-Hayashi transforms Acer Aspire One Netbook into a masterpiece worth $3000, a zen-touch-up for a netbook from the land of rising sun.
Tom Dixon, Front Design and 5.5 Designers ‘DesignBox ‘ For Veuve Clicquot.
From Bloomacious: These Game Reserves in Tanzania are picture perfect – just keep the shooting to camera shutters clicking. Was this Ernest Hemingway’s hideout?

Actress Diane Kruger has landed herself a 20 page spread in Italian Vogue shot by photographer Mark Seliger. Check at out at Runway to Retail!

Is Flutter the new Twitter? Just as we get the hang of microblogging, here comes nano blogging.

Factio Magazine talks to Isaac Mizrahi about the new look of Liz, how he’s really a slob and so over India (to his boyfriend’s dismay!).

The iconic designer, Oscar de la Renta, back peddles from his remarks about Michelle Obama on The View.

Visual artist, Florence Deygas, has a brilliant new collaboration with luxury champagne house Veuve Clicquot.

Factio Magazine attends Redmoon’s gala Spectacle Lunatique and does a behind-the-scenes video!

Prada’s Waist Down Exhibit heads to Seoul, Korea launching at the Prada Transformer at the end of April!

It seems there’s no end to Stella McCartney’s creativity. An animal lover, Stella has often used the silhouette of a horse in her textiles and fashion design. Now she’s reprised Lucky Spot, a gorgeous crystal “chandelier” installation at Belsay Castle in the UK.

A new book, The History of America’s Upper Class, celebrates American high society from the Vanderbilts to Paris Hilton.

Estatejobs.com discusses the ethics of cutting household help. The lifestyle of the privileged also comes with some pitfalls…

I’m only a spectator of Bloggers vs. Old Media: drama is mostly boring, publicists are mostly sweet, and I don’t consider myself a blogger or a journalist–

Writing just gets me hot.

But then I heard from Bag Snob Tina that a publicist was harassing her after Bag Snob returned some plastique “python” bags by Zina Eva. The crazy publicist emailed Tina:

“You are pathetic soccer moms who wish you are European”
“You are Just a Blogger anyway. No need for you. You guys are the unprofessional ones.”

Totally, ma’am. And though I might argue many call girls are more pro than this publicist, and most porn blogs have a higher command of English, since the Zina Eva bags suck more than a busy hooker–and probably make less money–, the bag line is getting more press than it’d ever get via a nice publicist. But is any publicity good publicity?

Only if you’re not relating to the public through a fifth-rate firm that’s emailing top-billing blogs racist remarks.

Just another Cracker Jap blogger,
K

Accused of sexually soliciting an undercover cop at an airport, Senator Craig is bouncing between fight or flight for his public post, between stories of base bathroom banging or mundane missionary in marriage faster than I bounce between lusting and loving these boss Bruno Frisoni shoes.

Sinfully black in a Garden-of-Eden snakeskin, much like the Republican senator’s political position, the Bruno Frisoni shoes’ fat platform actually only serves to have you teeter on an ambitious arch delicately depending on a pin-thin heel.

Walking on a razor-sharp line dividing unapologetic S-E-X and formal black, these Bruno Frisoni shoes are perfect for Craig-haters’ fantasies of what the senator wears on his weekends off, these Bruno Frisoni shoes are perfect for a black tie, White House dinner party, these Bruno Frisoni shoes are perfect for–

When you lean over three types of forks and whisper loud to your boyfriend that you muse on m�naging with Hillary Clinton.

� Bruno Frisoni shoes in snakeskin $825, Saks

I love animals more than PETA, so it’s heart-cracking to read about footballer Vick’s dogfighting charges.

Though I’m convinced, should pit bulls ever have the power, they’d pit human against human in a boxing ring for major money entertainment–so it sounds bizarre–my vintage mink coat shed a tear when seeing a photo of a mangled dog (then the tear froze, because the said coat is in storage in downtown, waiting out LA’s ridiculously fabulous weather for a climate more close to the temperature of my heart).

Though I only like Ms. Mac because she makes gorgeous things–if anything, Stella’s promo for PETA made me wrinkle my nose as much as a pair of chunky-heeled Marc-y Marc Jacobs pumps–I’m slapping up this vegan metallic Stella McCartney bag to raise awareness about Vick’s dogfighting charges reaching court today.

Well, plus, the Stella McCartney bag is boss.

� Silver metallic Stella McCartney bag $599, Intermix

With the funeral of the N-word performed by NAACP delegates determined to bury “greatest child racism ever birthed,” it’s time to mourn in your best black.

A racial slur worthy of the compliment of a funeral ceremony literally attended by hundreds, virtually witnessed by millions thanks to its front-page spread on CNN.com deserves only the most respectful black, a la these rhinestone Giuseppe Zanotti shoes.

Funeral black but as showy as a Jay-Z jam about yachts and N-words, these Giuseppe Zanotti shoes are fitting for the Paris Hilton-worthy publicity and controversy-cache the N-word has received thanks to its burial (all of which will of course dissuade rappers eager for publicity from using the slur).

I can only hope the passing-on of the W-word–cough, “whitey,” cough–gets such a celebratory ceremony and pretty PR.

I’d love to break in a boss LBD that makes my white ass bootylicious.

� Rhinestone Giuseppe Zanotti shoes $650, eLUXURY

Better than Paris in April?

Paris in prison.

Think hot pink–even though the twenty-something heiress’s crunk-cruising sentence has already been shortened to twenty-some days in a solitary celeb cell, prop up Paris with Red Freckle’s “Paris Is My Cell Mate” bracelet.

More moving than a rubber band pushing you “Live Strong” and vaguely evoking a man who won a record-wrecking number of Tour de Frances single ball-y, a streak of “Paris Is My Cell Mate” pink is a reminder that, born into a name nouveau riche and brain enough to seek out PR ready to capitalize on you, success earned out of the easy envy of Everywoman can be yours, that–

Banking on anyone to completely clue you in, no matter how highly paid they are, is a chump’s choice heavy with ugly aftermath.

Like maybe a reality TV series. Sans makeup, platinum extensions, and DvF dresses.

I’ll take two bracelets.

� Red Freckles “Paris Is My Cell Mate” bracelet $5 via RedFreckles.com

� Interview with Red Freckles on ThisNext’s Blog

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