Nintendo has teamed up with From Bags to Riches, an online handbag-rental service, to include Nintendo DS systems and games with some rentals. That’s right, rent a Prada bag and get a nice DS to put in it. (The idea is to match the DS color with the bag color, I guess.) And instead of getting a little chihuahua to carry around, you can amuse yourself with Nintendogs.
From the press release: “With the addition of the stylish Nintendo DS, Nintendo brings to fashion accessories what Prada brought to stylish messenger bags.”
You can get more information about the new partnership at the From Bags to Riches Web site: http://www.frombagstoriches.com/rentbag/pc/nintendoDS.asp.
Categories: Retail · Video Games
Tagged: accessories, fashion, handbags, nintendo ds, Video Games
The Wall Street Journal has an alternately hilarious and disturbing article noting that people are reading less, but at the same time in-home libraries are becoming more fashionable. Some people are stocking the shelves with pretty books (“decorator books”) that they don’t have time to read.
(“Michael Burkitt and his wife, Roberta, own an estimated 9,000 books, all hardbound, which they keep in two formal libraries in their new, 5,800-square-foot home in Reno, Nev., and their 3,800-square-foot vacation house in Newport Coast, Calif. Mr. Burkitt, 65, the recently retired co-owner of a structural-plastics firm, says he’s been too busy working most of his life to read even a fraction of them.”)
On the other hand, some folks own libraries stuffed with books they actually read, like Jay McInerney and Dan Poag. Poor Dan Poag, who owns an estimated 10,000 books: “Since nearly every wall of his current house is filled with books, his decorator urged him to re-cover them so their multicolored spines wouldn’t clash with the décor.” Ack! He refused, by the way.
Categories: Books · Demographics
Tagged: Books, decorator books, fashion, home design, libraries
