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Top Ten Most Expensive Handbags
According to CoolDesignerHandbags.com
January 28th, 2008
1. Fendi “B.Bag“
$27,700*
Hailing the return of the structured bag, this might be Fendi’s best seller since the Baguette. Although the white lambskin runway bag (pictured on the runway) was well-received, the $27,700 black crocodile version is truly coveted.
2. Hermès “Birkin”
$20,000-plus*
Nearly all Hermès Birkin bags, named after English actress and ’60s fashion icon Jane Birkin, are special orders, like this red leather version. Most Birkins are upwards of $20,000, but the final price depends on skin and hardware.
3. Yves Saint Laurent “Muse”
$18,990*
Seen on the arm of everyone from Kate Moss to Jessica Simpson, the roomy yet refined Muse riffs on the traditional bowling bag. Linda Evangelista’s sage green version, pictured above at Paris Fashion Week last February, is now available in white crocodile for $18,990.
4. Prada “Frame Bag”
$15,090*
This structured crocodile bag, embossed with the signature Prada emblem, made its first appearance on the Autumn/Winter 2006 runway in Milan. It is available in the tan color shown above, known as Krusca.
5. Zac Posen “Alexia”
$15,000*
With his first line of bags, Posen has created the ultimate homage to the ’70s. This blue crocodile version oozes opulence.
6. Ralph Lauren “Ricky”
$14,000*
The latest of the exclusive bag set, Ralph Lauren’s is named for his wife and is available in silver crocodile. For the shocking orange version, you’ll have to travel to RL’s newly opened Japanese flagship.
7. Chloe “Paddington”
$12,880*
After experiencing a huge wave of popularity a couple of years back, the Paddington satchel, which features metal accoutrements, including the signature golden padlock closure, remains relevant by maintaining its exclusivity. This grey leather version was the bag du jour last autumn, and now admirers can scoop up the chocolate crocodile style for close to $13,000. Due to high demand, luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman allows customers to order no more than three every 30 days.
8. Gucci “Boston”
$11,990-plus*
This medium-sized croc bag, with bamboo details and gold hardware, rings in at almost $12,000, but the larger version will set you back $13,900. It’s also available in black crocodile, patent leather and guccissima leather.
9. Bottega Veneta “Bambina”
$7,800*
Unlike powerhouses Louis Vuitton or Chanel, Bottega Veneta has no recognizable logo or trademark handbag shape. Available only at Bottega Veneta boutiques, the spring line offers quality, exclusivity and status. This soft crocodile Bambina, available in Biscotto Fume, has a suede lining and magnetic closure.
10. Devi Kroell “Crystal Disco Ball”
$4,900*
Devi Kroell, who first became well known in fashion circles for her slouchy, metallic python hobos, gives the evening bag a much-needed injection of edgy glamour by covering it in black crystals.Source forbes.com
The world’s most expensive doghouse.
This doghouse, features Hello Kitty, was created by Sanrio for a sales event at a department store in Tokyo. It has 7,600 Swarovski crystal beads and is large enough for a Chihuahua or terrier.
This one-of-a-kind Hello Kitty doghouse sold for a mere $31,660.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A 1,000-year-old carved rock crystal ewer, one of only seven known surviving examples, will be offered for auction next month at Christie's Islamic art sale and is expected to fetch over 3 million pounds ($5.3 million).
The auctioneer said the ewer was made for the court of the Fatimid rulers of Cairo in the late 10th or early 11th century, and has been embellished in enameled gold mounts made in 1854 by a French silversmith.
The ewer is the same one that came up for auction in Britain in January this year and fetched 220,000 pounds, or more than one thousand times its pre-sale estimate.
It was catalogued then as a 19th century French claret jug and valued at 100-200 pounds, but experts said they believed it was in fact an extremely rare ewer from the Fatimid dynasty which ruled parts of northern Africa and the Middle East in the 10th-12th centuries.
Auction house sources said the January sale was later "annulled by agreement," but gave no further details.
The ewer was carved from a single piece of flawless rock crystal which was hollowed out and carved by hand, and is decorated with cheetahs and link-chains.
According to Christie's, by the middle of the 11th century the Fatimid state had become so impoverished that much of the contents of the Royal Treasury had to be sold, including the ewers.
Of the other six surviving examples, one is in London's Victoria & Albert Museum, two are in the treasury of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice, one is in the Cathedral of Fermo, Italy, another is in the Louvre in Paris and one was stolen from the Museum of Limoges, France, in 1980.
There was one other known ewer, but it was dropped by an employee of a museum in Florence in 1998 and shattered irreparably, according to reports.
Christie's holds its sale of Islamic and Indian art on October 7 in London, and expects to raise more than 11 million pounds in all.
In April, rival auction house Sotheby's sold a 12 century key to the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest site in Islam, for 9.2 million pounds, setting a new record for an Islamic work of art at auction.
The Abbasid period key, made of iron and measuring 37 cm long, sold for more than 18 times its pre-sale estimate.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)
You may have read details about Mukesh Ambani's new house-in-the-making at Altamount Road, but even as work on its construction goes on in full swing, here on your right is the first picture of what it will look like when it's complete.
Mumbai Mirror is in possession of the entire architectural plan for Residence Antilia (as the house is going to be called, after a mythical island), the subject of enormous curiosity in the city ever since the Reliance Industries Ltd chairman purchased the 4,532 sq mt plot in 2002.The plan, drawn up by the firm Perkins+Will, reveals that the house will resemble a virtual glass palace, with entertainment centres, a health club, a swimming pool and various green spots thrown in for good measure.C onstruction of Mukesh Ambani’s new house at Altamount Road, where real estate prices are now in the region of Rs 75,000 per sq ft, began in late 2006, and the first six floors are already in place now. The building is expected to be complete in September 2008.
27 FLOORS
According to the plan, the house will rise to a height of 173.12 meters, equivalent to that of a regular 60-storeyed residential building. However, Antilia will have only 27 storeys in all, which means each floor will have a ceiling considerably higher than the current average of nearly three meters.Six floors for parkingThe first six floors — which have come up — will be reserved for parking alone, and that too for cars belonging only to Mukesh's family. Space for a total of 168 'imported' cars has been earmarked here.
Floor for car maintenance
Sources said the Ambanis would prefer to have all their cars serviced and maintained at an in-house service centre. This centre will be set up on the seventh floor.
Entertainment floor
The eighth floor will have an entertainment centre comprising a mini-theatre with a seating capacity of 50. Balconies with gardensThe rooftop of the mini-theatre will serve as a garden, and immediately above that, three more balconies with terrace gardens will be independent floors.
The 'health' floors
While the ninth floor will a 'refuge' floor — meant to be used for rescue in emergencies — two floors above that will be set aside for 'health.' One of these will have facilities for athletics and a swimming pool, while the other will have a health club complete with the latest gym equipment.
For guests
There will be a two-storeyed glass-fronted apartment for the Ambani family's guests above the health floors. One more refuge floor and one floor for mechanical works will be built on top of these apartments.FamilyThe four floors at the top, that will provide a view of the Arabian Sea and a superb view of the city's skyline, will be for Mukesh, his wife Neeta, their three children and Mukesh's mother Kokilaben.
Air space floor
According to the plan, two floors above the family's residence will be set aside as maintenance areas, and on top of that will be an "air space floor," which will act as a control room for helicopters landing on the helipad above.
Helipad
The plan states that three helipads are to be built on the terrace. However, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation officials told this paper that permission for the helipads has not been granted yet. "The residential plans were approved three-four years ago. Two levels of basement have also been shown in the proposed project," Sudhir Shinde, deputy engineer at the BMC's building proposals department said.
Staff
Nearly 600 staffers are expected to work full-time in the building, sources said. Total statsAccording to BMC records, the total area of Mukesh's Altamount Road plot is 4,532.39 square meters. The proposed built-up area is 4,778.09 square meters (only for residential purposes), and the permissible built-up area 4,939.81 square meters.
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Cabo Me is very popular with Celebrities. This is a gorgeous place with covered lounge beds. We hear this is just the best vacation sopt. 
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Just for fun.
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Boy at a baseball field: "I'm through with standing in line to clubs I'll never get in"
Lindsey Shaw in front of the Cloud Gate: "It's like the bottom of the ninth"
Man in front of the Flatiron Building: "and I'm never gonna win"
Cindy Taylor on a pool float: "This life hasn't turned out"
Old woman on the Millennium Bridge (London) in front of St Paul's Cathedral: "quite the way I want it to be"
Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top: "Tell me what you want" (voiceover)
Wayne Gretzky: "I want a brand new house"
Three women in Times Square: "on an episode of Cribs"
Kendra Wilkinson in front of the Playboy Mansion: "And a bathroom I can play baseball in"
New York City policeman: "And a king size tub"
Gene Simmons in front of his wall of gold and platinum records: "big enough for ten"
Paul Wall in front of a highway: "plus me"
Billy Gibbons again: "Yeah, so whatcha need" (voiceover)
Park ranger at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park: "I'll need a, a credit card"
Dominique Swain in a bubblebath: "that's got no limit"
Three men (one US MP, one East German border guard, and one civilian) at Checkpoint Charlie facing the American Sector: "And a big black jet"
Twista, Mayz from the Speedknot Mobstaz, and unknown man riding in a limo: "with a bedroom in it"
Man in Grand Central Terminal: "Gonna join the mile high club"
Holly Madison in the Playboy Mansion grotto: "at thirty-seven thousand feet"
Woman in Los Angeles: "Been there, done that" (Billy Gibbons voiceover)
Street musician in Union Square: "I want a new tour bus"
Same street musician with performers in Union Square: "full of old guitars"
Three girls on the bank of the Chicago River in front of Marina City: "My own star on Hollywood Boulevard"
Gene Simmons again: "Somewhere between Cher"
Paul Teutul, Sr. of Orange County Choppers: "and James Dean is fine for me"
Billy Gibbons again: "So how you gonna do it?" (voiceover)
John Rich on a pool table with a banjo: "I'm gonna trade this life"
Woman in Union Square: "for fortune and fame"
Chuck Liddell: "I'll even cut my hair"
Man in a Chinese restaurant: "and change my name"
Two Blazin' Saddles employees[7] in front of a General Lee-inspired RV: "'Cause we all just wanna be"
Eight kids in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge: "big rockstars"
Wayne Gretzky again: "and live in hilltop houses"
Parking valet at Jones Hollywood in West Hollywood: "driving fifteen cars"
Brian Walton on Lambeth Palace Road in front of the Houses of Parliament: "The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap"
Jenna Westerbeck sunbathing: "We'll all stay skinny"
Kid Rock: "cause we just won't eat/And we'll"
Twista, Mayz, and unknown man again: "hang out in the coolest bars"
Jessie Coleman in Grand Central Terminal: "In the VIP"
Eliza Dushku: "with the movie stars"
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in front of a Union 76 gas station: "Every good gold digger's"
Taryn Manning: "Gonna wind up there"
Paul Wall again: "Every Playboy bunny"
Two women in the middle of Davie Street: "With her bleach blond hair"
Jerry Cantrell under Chicago's El tracks and in front of Double Door: "And we'll/Hey hey"
Liam Lynch in Union Square: "I wanna be a"
Nelly Furtado on tour bus: "rockstar"
Man in front of the same highway as Paul Wall above
Man in Union Square
Two women in Grand Central Terminal: "Hey"
Chuck Liddell again with Elliot Segal from DC101 in a headlock:"hey"
Boy in grocery store: "I wanna be a rockstar"
Paul Teutul, Jr., Paul Teutul, Sr., and Mikey from Orange County Choppers flexing muscles
Man in front of Marina City: "I wanna be great like Elvis"
Elvis impersonator: "without the tassels"
Federico Castelluccio from The Sopranos: "Hire eight body guards"
Chuck Liddell again: "that love to beat up assholes"
Grant Hill signing basketball: "Sign a couple autographs/So I can"
Man in Union Square again: "eat my meals for free"
Billy Gibbons again: "I'll have the quesadilla" (voiceover)
Paul Wall again: "Ha ha" (Billy Gibbons voiceover)
Man and woman in the middle of Davie Street: "I'm gonna dress my ass"
Ted Nugent: "with the latest fashion"
Man and woman in front of the Cloud Gate: "Get a front door key"
Kendra Wilkinson, Holly Madison, and Bridget Marquardt from The Girls Next Door: "to the Playboy mansion"
Man in front of the Flatiron Building: "Gonna date a centerfold"
Two teenagers in Washington Square Park: "that loves to blow my money for me"
Billy Gibbons again: "So how you gonna do it?" (voiceover)
Paul Teutul, Jr., Paul Teutul, Sr., and Mikey from Orange County Choppers again: "I'm gonna trade this life"
Man and woman in front of the Reichstag building: "For fortune and fame"
Jordan Carlos overlooking Los Angeles: "I'd even cut my hair"
Man in front of the New York Stock Exchange: "And change my name"
Man at a pink bus-stop bench on Davie Street: "'Cause we all just wanna be"
Lupe Fiasco on a table: "big rockstars"
Woman in front of the Brandenburg Gate: "And live in hilltop houses"
Woman in front of the Chicago Theater: "driving fifteen cars"
Two women at the beach: "The girls come easy"
Taryn Manning again: "and the drugs come cheap"
Eliza Dushku again: "We'll all stay skinny"
Woman in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge: "'cause we just won't eat"
Three women dancing : "And we'll hang out in the coolest bars"
Gene Simmons again: "In the VIP"
Dominique Swain again: "with the movie stars"
Lupe Fiasco again: "Every good gold digger's"
Chuck Liddell again: "gonna wind up there"
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. again: "Every Playboy bunny"
Two girls in Times Square: "with her bleach blond hair"
Man in front of Beverly Hills High School: "And we'll hide out in the private rooms"'
Eliza Dushku again: "With the latest dictionary"
Federico Castelluccio again: "and today's who's who"
Riki Lindhome at the beach: "They'll get you anything with that evil smile"
Kid Rock again: "Everybody's got a drug dealer on speed dial/Well"
Steel worker: "Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar"
John Rich again, smashing a guitar
Three women in the middle of Davie Street: "I'm gonna sing those songs that offend the censors"
Te'DeVan Rocketman Wacha Kurzweil in Union Square: "Gonna pop my pills from a Pez dispenser"
Lupe Fiasco again: "Get washed-up singers"
Boy in front of a mixing console: "writing all my songs"
Gwenno Pipette overlooking Los Angeles: "Lip sync 'em every night"
Daniel Self at City Market in Raleigh: "so I don't get 'em wrong"
Man on street corner in New York City's Chinatown: "Well we all just wanna be"
Man in front of Big Acorn in Raleigh: "big rockstars"
Eight Blazin' Saddles employees at City Market in Raleigh: "And live in hilltop houses"
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. again:"driving fifteen cars"
The Naked Cowboy in Times Square: "The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap"
Woman at the beach: "We'll all stay skinny"
Brandon Berman in Times Square: "'cause we just won't eat"
Cindy Taylor again: "And we'll hang out in the coolest bars"
Woman in front of Buckingham Fountain: "In the VIP"
Grant Hill again: "with the movie stars"
Jayson Woolley in Union Square: "Every good gold digger's"
Ted Nugent again: "gonna wind up there"
Holly Madison again: "Every Playboy"
Bridget Marquardt in a pink bed: "bunny with her bleach"
Kendra Wilkinson again: "blond hair/And we'll"
Laurie Picken standing next to City Hall in front of Tower Bridge: "hide out in the private rooms"
Nelly Furtado again: "With the latest dictionary and today's"
Two women in front of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge: "Who's Who/They'll get you anything"
Kid Rock again: "with that evil smile/Everybody's"
Ted Nugent again: "got a drug dealer on speed dial/Well"
John Rich again: "hey"
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. again: "hey"
Worker in front of Marina City with a Michigan State University sweatshirt: "I wanna be a rockstar"
Wayne Gretzky again, splashing a pool with a hockey stick
Kendra Wilkinson again dancing
Nelly Furtado again: "Hey"
Gene Simmons again: "hey"
Nickelback fans at Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts concert singing: "I wanna be a rockstar"
Pan to Chad Kroeger, pan to Mike Kroeger and Ryan Peake
Gilbert just got a new 6 year $111,000,000 Contract. He wasted no time spending some of it on a new pool. I would have no problem partying there.
Here are the Rumors:
* The stone for the "mountain" cost nearly half a million dollars.
* There are three different fish tanks, one going in the "grotto," one in the front hall, and one in the basement. Their normal retail price would have been about another half-million.
* The tank in the basement will have a recess with a couch in it so Gil can "relax and look up at the fish."
* The work is scheduled to be finished in August.
If you are an avid bowler and have lots of money. This is for you. Oh, and you need alot of room too. You have to have at least 9 foot ceilings and and a room wiht 95 foot length.
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Rock the Mansion this August — Playboy Style
Party like a rock star while mingling with hundreds of beautiful, naughty "school girls" and rock star groupies. Diggity Dave of MTV's "Pimp My Ride" and the Naughty School girls will host.
Open Bars, gourmet buffets, live music from Australia's Martini Club, a debut performance by the beautiful Desiree Cuchiara, Mansion tours, great food, prizes for best dressed, and meet & greets with Playboy Playmates … in other words, a night only the Playboy Mansion could pull off!
It all goes down on Saturday, Aug. 30. Act fast admission is limited:
Front Row (General Admission) — $500
Access to Mansion grounds, pool & grotto
Full open bar
Catered gourmet buffet
Round-trip Mansion transportation
Press Pass (Single VIP) — $2,500
Front Row package, plus:
Access to lounge & cabana areas
Bottle service
Invitation to Friday VIP Pre-Party at 944 Lounge in Hollywood
Mansion drive-on access for one vehicle
Dress Codes
Women: Naughty School Girl, Groupie or LingerieMen: Rock Star
Information regarding pass list and registration point will be sent within one week of the event. Pass names cannot be changed or transferred. All sales are final. No refunds, no exchanges.
Although there is a 150" Plasma coming out soon.
The Largest Plasma you can purchase now is a 103" for $70,000. And you can order it online .
Link to Youtube.com Video of the home
Russian fertilizer billionaire, Dmitry Rybolovlev, has agreed to pay $100 million to Donald Trump for his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion.
It is the most expensive sale of a U.S. single-family home. "This is the highest price ever paid for a house. And I think it's a bargain," said Mr. Trump.
Donald Trump paid $41.4 million for the estate at a bankruptcy-court auction in 2004 and had his apprentice winner Kendra Todd oversee a $25 million cosmetic renovation.
The 33,000-square-foot mansion, built in 1990, is on 6.5 acres with 475 feet on the ocean. Mr. Trump cut the price to $100 million from $125 million recently. But the home will probably be torn down and subdivided. Mr Rybolovlev said the purchase was an investment only.
Mr. Rybolovlev, born in 1966, is one of Russia's richest businessmen. The Forbes list of the world's billionaires places him at No. 59, with an estimated net worth of $12.8 billion.
Gorgeous!
Here is the ultimate secluded dream villa with everything that you could possibly want. It sleeps 6 people comfortably and all three bedrooms are fully air conditioned and have en-suite bathrooms.
Where else can you get …a palm tree island right in the middle of your own swimming pool, a Jacuzzi for six under the stars with underwater lighting, a barbecue on the roof terrace with a full dining area in the shade, a luxury lounge to chill in with DVD system and plasma screen next to your broadband 
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