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Checking In on The Emperor's Wife
When we last checked in on Elaine Wynn, Jason Kidd had given her his U.S. Olympic Gold Medal. Um. Right. So what is Steve Wynn's wife up to now that Encore Las Vegas has just opened?
Well according to the LA Times, the emperor's wife is busying herself with helping the flailing Las Vegas economy. Mrs. Wynn has a real job at Wynn Resorts as a director and she oversees all the retail shops at the hotels. And what a fun job it must have been to select the stores for Encore.
The project, billed as the Wynn hotel's "sexy little sister," includes several boutiques -- Hermès; the new Chanel Ultra-Luxe boutique (the first in the U.S.); the edgy multibrand Ensemble with new styles by Ossie Clark, Thomas Wylde and Philipp Plein and vintage finds such as a 1966 Paco Rabanne Lucite and metal chain-link dress ($10,780); In Step, a temple to over-the-top shoes such as Nicholas Kirkwood's platinum crocodile spaceship-like stilettos ($7,995); and Wynn and Company Jewelry, home to those sliced diamonds.
What's probably not fun? Trying to sell all those luxe goods in a recession. All of this extravagant inventory was ordered before the economy started to tank so the Wynns will have to be more careful about what they order the next time around.
Still, while the Wynns are scaling back in some places (they canceled a black-tie gala for the opening of Encore), they still firmly believe in giving guests a brief chance to experience the high life. As Elaine herself says, "If people can't afford to indulge themselves, they can still appreciate the artistry." We'll try to restrain ourselves.
[Photo: Wally Skalij for the LA Times]
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Park Hyatt Istabul Opens With Armani and Gucci Inside
[Update: Despite what the online reservations system initially told us, this hotel is offically opening on October 16th. Online reservations are being taken for stays later than October 18th.]
There are at least two reasons to stay at the new Park Hyatt Istanbul Maçka Palas: Istanbul is the only city in the world located on two continents, and Emporio Armani and Gucci boutiques are in the same building.
Of course, there is also the limestone bathrooms, with 25 of the 90 deluxe-sized rooms featuring authentic Turkish baths with heated stone seats. And it's located smack in the middle of the ultra-trendy shopping district, Nişantaşi, home of some of the best shopping in the world.
Each guestroom is equipped with the latest technology including high-speed broadband Internet access, flat screen television, a DVD/CD player and iPod docking station. And a boutique hotel wouldn't be complete without an exclusive spa and special spa suites.
This renovated 1922 building has a unique blend of the old art deco and new modern architecture found in other Park Hyatts. Glass tile is found in much of the hotel with a "Bordeaux Wall" in The Prime, the first Istanbul steakhouse, made entirely out of wine bottle glass.
The hotel officially just opened September 1 but already appears to be sold out for much of September. Rates start at 230 euros ($336 US).
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W Hotels Store Sells Cute Dresses, Fug Accessories, $275 Sex Toys
When we spotted a 40% off sitewide coupon for the W Hotels Online Store at Bargainist, we hopped on over to check out the merchandise again. Maybe the string dolls had been replaced by something more awesome?
Well, there was certainly lots to see: we were kinda horrified, then kinda amused and then, um, shocked at how much we wanted to buy this dress! Like, now!
Oh, and we don't know why we're surprised that they sell a $275 vibe. Ok: what is with hotels and super-expensive sex toys? If you expect our nether regions to have such ridiculously expensive tastes, then why won't you spring for some nicer complimentary toiletries to wash said regions with? Have some respect.
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MGM's CityCenter Will Feature a Shopping Mecca Called The Crystals
When MGM's CityCenter opens in late 2009, it will change the face of the Las Vegas Strip forever. The complex will feature three hotels, a luxury apartment building and a ton of gaming, restaurant and retail space.
And it's that retail space we're so interested in. CityCenter has wisely ignored the choice to name their shopping complex something tired like "The Shops at City Center" in favor of something a bit more mysterious. CityCenter's retail haven will instead be called, The Crystals.
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Assouline Books Check Into the Plaza Hotel
New York's grandiose Plaza Hotel is bringing in some equally high-brow retail tenants to solidify its reputation as something special. After luxe British cell phone brand Vertu opened their second US store in the Plaza (the first is in Vegas, natch) at the end of April, the Warren-Tricomi salon followed and then all fell still until recently.
Assouline, the publisher of vellum-inous artsy coffee table tomes, has just opened their first US store inside of the Plaza, overlooking the lobby so that shoppers can look down at everyone else not buying Assouline (and who are probably Taschen fans).
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Snapshot :: Christian Louboutin Boutique at the Palazzo Las Vegas
Aside from having a plethora of Christian Louboutins for sale at their Barneys New York department store, the Palazzo Las Vegas also has a full-fledged Christian Louboutin boutique inside its massive three-story retail complex, the Shoppes at the Palazzo.
Forget buying Rolexes after you win big at the craps table. Take yourself to this boutique and go buckwild. The boutique is rather small but has the mirrored-cubbyhole obsession that is found in CL stories in New York City.
And yes, you will need some dough to buy these shoes (unless you happen upon a sale.) A suggestion on Yelp might help the pain on your wallet if only temporarily:
Stop over at Double Helix bar right outside the door and do a shot to make that credit card swipe go a little easier. Before or after. Your choice. Maybe both.
See our gallery below for other stores at the Palazzo.
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Ivanka Trump Back to Being Ivanka Trump
Yesterday, we were stunned to hear of the lovely Ivanka Trump's quick trip to regular-people-land (which involved staying at the Quality Inn and munching on Little Caesar's), but today we've learned that girlfriend is back to doing what she does best: hawking her father's crap.
WWD has the scoop:
Ivanka Trump, who visited the Windy City recently to show her fall jewelry collection at J.Mendel's Michigan Avenue boutique, didn't miss the opportunity to promote (albeit graciously) the new Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago. The statuesque blonde, who wore her own diamond tassel earrings, mentioned that while in Chicago she stayed at the hotel, received several spa treatments that day and dined for both lunch and dinner at the hotel's restaurant Sixteen, where she enjoys the admittedly rich porcini ravioli.
How sweet of her to plug her dad's businesses! And she was rewarded nicely for it, too: Ivanka's getting a bit of retail space in the hotel to open up a boutique for her jewelry line.
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Mandalay Bay Gets the Teen Touch with New Metropark Shop
While money Mommy and Daddy enjoy some alone time in the cabanas at the Mandalay Bay, the teenyboppers can have their own private fun with the family charge card at the Shops at Mandalay Place.
Next Friday the 13th (ooh ominous!), the LA-based "specialty store chain for trendsetting young adults" Metropark will join Mandalay's other teen-preen shops like Urban Outfitters and Fornarina.
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Hotel Retail News :: A Louis Vuitton Store Inside a Marriott?
Hotels are slowly moving beyond the bar, nightclub and restaurant trend to add some hip retail spaces in their properties. Of course, this is nothing new as some hotels have been doing this already for a long time. But what is news is the report of a Louis Vuitton store opening inside the JW Marriott Bucharest Hotel.
The store will open in June and offer customers the standard LV leather goods as well as the opportunity to design their own travel trunk based on their "requirements and taste." Hmmm...Marriott we smell a package!
As for why LV would open in a Marriott, international senior VP for LV said :
"We looked on Calea Victoriei and on other boulevards in Bucharest but chose the Marriott because it is a visually safe and controlled environment, where you know who your neighbours are and do not risk having a sex shop open next door.
Word. Who else is selling what and where? Here's a short list:
· The Beverly Wilshire Hotel: The Pretty Woman hotel has added the fine jewelry brand Avakian to its retail presence. Oh if only Julia and Richard were there now. [WWD]
· The Plaza: The Plaza will get mobile phone store Vertu. [WWD]
· Waldorf-Astoria Collection Sarasota: The upcoming hotel just announced it will have a Guerlain spa and along with that a chance to purchase all the Guerlain goodies you are suckered into believing your skin will need.
· The Standard Hotel NYC: Ok, so the tentatively planned Barneys New York in the Meat Packing District isn't exactly located inside the new Standard, but it will be one block away. [Racked]
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The Setai Hotel Gets Fancy Asprey Boutique
The Setai hotel has always been fashion-forward...er maybe not. But since its opening in 2005, the hotel has definitely established itself as an extravagant luxury hotel.
For instance, when Madonna stayed there in 2006, she stayed in the Penthouse suite but we have no idea what that must cost because the Setai doesn't publish those rates. (Meaning, if you have to ask, you can't afford.)
Also this past New Year's Eve, the Setai had a ticket price of $1,000 for cocktails, a five-course dinner and a performance by Jennifer Hudson.
So it's only fitting that the kind of boutique that open inside the Setai is that of British luxury goods firms, Asprey. WWD reports:
This, the firm's third U.S. store, will offer jewelry, silver, gift items and exotic leather goods. Prices in the store range from $160 for small leather goods or key chains to $37,000 for a purple crocodile bar set with sterling silver and crystal martini glasses.
So a $160 a key chain might be the only cheap way to experience the Setai as rooms there are going for $1,220 a night.
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The Do-Gooder Hotel Jewelry Shop
We have a sneaking feeling that more and more hotels will start to do away with their simple sundries-only gift shops and start making space for specialized gift shops.
Take for instance the jewelry store at the Loews Santa Monica which is called 1700 Ocean. The Jewelry Weblog went inside the shop and found not even this to be a regular old jewelry store, as evidence by the mission statement.
It is 1700 Ocean's, Debra Savage, Earl Allen and all employees' mission to provide every customer either in our store or on our website with absolute best quality jewelry and gemstones available on the market.
The products designed by us or artists we choose to represent will be brought to you via a visible supply chain. In other words we will not, or can not support anyone or company who takes advantage ecologically, economically or inhumanely to bring their products to market.
Perhaps there is an opportunity for this store within the new "1" Hotels?
Related Stories:
· Hotel Jewelry Shop on a Different Level [Jewelry Weblog]
· '1' Joins the Ranks of Oddly-Named New Hotel Chains [HotelChatter]
· Loews Santa Monica reviews [HotelChatter]
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Annie O.'s Weirdness
The trendy boutique store Annie O. inside THOR has just opened and the Village Voice peeked inside to see what's there.
First up, $120 strand of pearls wrapped in cashmere, multi-strand brass hoop earrings for $57.50 and then some pricey jewelry such as a centipede choker with a diamond for $2,640.
The paper also fills us in on what it looks like from the street and not if you were in the hotel.
From the outside, the shop looks like a glowing light box, weirdly modern for a place located right under a decrepit nail salon.
But once you realize that the store is connnected to the hotel, (there's a door that lets shoppers right into the bar) the artsy display of cigarettes, travel-sized packages of Immodium AD and tiny toothbrushes, totally makes sense.
Sorry, no hash-smoking hammock available is for sale there. Yet.
Related Stories:
· Rivington, Going Through Changes [Village Voice]
· THOR hotel coverage [HotelChatter]
· THOR reviews [TripAdvisor]
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