One thing there will be less of this holiday season is […]
One thing there will be less of this holiday season is wooden valentine decorations gold lamé. For starters, it’s gold lamé. But, more important, Kylie Jenner beat you to it last year, with 20 feet of it exploding from every branch of her Christmas tree.Hers wasn’t your grandmother’s holiday display. It was a blitzkrieg of bedazzlement, Xmas in extremis, lavishly executed by L.A. “flower whisperer” Jeff Leatham and eventually consumed on Instagram by 19 million to the tune of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.
In this quest to flex like Daddy Warbucks, no demand is off-limits. In Los Angeles budgets for the holidays can start at $25,000 and go up to as much as $200,000, says event planner Mindy Weiss. She was once asked to hang a client’s indoor Christmas trees upside down, which presented a technical challenge.One thing there will be less of this holiday season is gold lamé. For starters, it’s gold lamé. But, more important, Kylie Jenner beat you to it last year, with 20 feet of it exploding from every branch of her Christmas tree.Hers wasn’t your grandmother’s holiday display.
It was a blitzkrieg of bedazzlement, Xmas in extremis, lavishly executed by L.A. “flower whisperer” Jeff Leatham and eventually consumed on Instagram by 19 million to the tune of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”From Calabasas to the Upper East Side, ’tis the holiest season of all: the Olympics of showing up your neighbor with the bigger, louder holiday decorations. For some members of the one percent, the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s (and sometimes even later) has become a time of high intensity hall decking that makes Dyker Heights look like a minor Hallmark special.Households are even competing against themselves.
Rudy Giuliani and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Judi are in divorce court reportedly fighting over not just their combined $30 million fortune but also Judi’s “huge walk-in closet of decorations,” including “six-foot-high wooden soldiers” that she claims hizzoner is holding hostage at his Madison Avenue condo.In a way, the holidays have always been interior design’s thirst trap, Christmas cards the original Pinterest humblebrags. Social media has only raised the stakes, and if you’re one of the people Elizabeth Warren wants to tax, now is the time to broadcast to the max.
