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The "elite" usually don't spend much time with those that are not on their level. Even though most of us "consumers" are the ones that have helped them get to where they are.
The "elite" usually don't spend much time with those that are not on their level. Even though most of us "consumers" are the ones that have helped them get to where they are.
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Apart from Anderson Cooper, Caroline Kennedy and a handful of others, most high-society types aren’t celebrities. You wouldn’t recognize them on the street.
I work in the theater and I’ve attended a number of gala events at Lincoln Center, BAM and elsewhere. Unless you know who’s who, those events are quite boring. Just your average wine-and-cheese party—but with better clothes.
UES -- though you don't get to get a glimpse of that life unless your part of a very exclusive circle who trace their mutually inbred lineage back to 18th century bavaria
why yearn so much for a life in which many have traded their souls for unfathomable greed and hedonism?
UES -- though you don't get to get a glimpse of that life unless your part of a very exclusive circle who trace their mutually inbred lineage back to 18th century bavaria
why yearn so much for a life in which many have traded their souls for unfathomable greed and hedonism?
For wealthy UES people, I don't think it's a matter of trading theirs souls. They were born into this life and can't imagine any other way. More like their ancestors traded their souls.
That world is very, very private. You can’t participate without being invited. It’s all based around private parties, charity galas, estates in the Hamptons, clubs in Midtown, etc. The sort of events that Bill Cunningham photographs for his “Evening Hours” column in the New York Times (Evening Hours | Winners All Around - NYTimes.com).
Yes, you can spend a lot of money in New York, but it takes more than that to be with “high-society.”
The closest you could get on your own is probably buying a ticket to the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night gala in the fall.
Pretty spot on. I just worked a party in the Hamptons Saturday (catering) with Giuliani, Schumer, Barbara Walters, Samuel Lefrak, etc on the guestlist. Actually got chewed out by Barbara for a minute. I see Bill Cunningham ALL THE TIME at parties, at first I was like who the hell is this old dude still shooting film.
There is no way you will ever come into contact with or experience any sort of high society without being in that circle, and it is a very incestuous circle. For example attending a dinner at MoMA, a cocktail party at the MET, park ave penthouse parties. Lincoln Center is your best bet to at least go out the way that people in high society do.
The best shot you have is if your kid is classmates at some prep school with a billionaire's kid and you somehow get involved with school activities and are introduced to them. I've seen this happen at David Koch's apt. One guy showed up in a polo shirt, don't be that guy.
I work in the theater and I’ve attended a number of gala events at Lincoln Center, BAM and elsewhere. Unless you know who’s who, those events are quite boring. Just your average wine-and-cheese party—but with better clothes.
Without going into details, my job recently allowed me to observe, very much as a bystander, a setting full of some of the richest and most prominent UES "old money." You would never look at them twice on the street, and that's how they like it. Flashy clothes and cars are low-class to these people.
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