Immersive luxury. That's the current
catch-phrase in the big marketing houses who do Mercedes, BMW, and
all the rest of that expensive middle class trash. I think an
academic name of Gilles Laurent came up with some kind of study that
claimed really wealthy people, when examined as to their lifestyles
and habits, spent a lot of time – in other words, were immersed
– using certain items and objects that could therefore more truly
define the concept of 'luxury,' compared to many other commercial
products that were generally, and probably incorrectly, also given
the title of luxury products. I've scanned the study itself and think
that it is terribly flawed, but that hasn't stopped the manufacturers
of expensive stuff exploiting the academic cachet
of the phrase 'immersive luxury.'
So, according to the researchers, food,
music – and basically a lot of things commanding smaller dollars
per unit – were not luxury items. What utter rubbish. It takes
around 18 months to properly process a vanilla bean pod – not sure
how much longer these idiots want you to immerse yourself in a luxury
thing, but layering your mistress's french lace panties over half a
dozen bourbon vanilla beans is decadent, and having her soak her
tender pink feet in vanilla pod foot-baths will draw the vanilla
essential oils up through the ascending bloodstream and help you
correctly identify pussy in a masked party in a dark ballroom
underneath a black satin-shrouded table on a dark night with only a
few tea-lights showing the way to the ends of the obfuscated
tunnels...
A vanilla bean is, I believe, in fact
more expensive by weight than a new Mercedes... But it doesn't take a
ridiculous sum to own the experience thereof, nor utilise the value
therein.
A decent sweaty martini is a very great
luxury between people who know each other well enough to have
martinis together with.
Okay, I like the pink diamond in this
pic, I find it a touch too middle-class Sino-design centric for my
own absolute taste, but now, it is expensive,
but I rather doubt anyone will be immersed in it so long that it
would seem like an unhealthy obsession. But it is luxury! And so is
the martini, the vanilla bean, Al Pacino's espresso, Cavalli's latest
fragrance edp, and any number of things some of which may be had for
small money by unit of. It isn't about money. Luxury is about
quality, pleasure, and passion. And knowledge. A Paul Van Dyke album
is extreme luxury. If you understand it.
Best,
J.
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