April 10, 2008
Reason No. 784393 to Love Danielle Steel
We love Danielle Steel.
A lot.
Why? We can't pinpoint; there are many reasons to adore this SF-based writer. Her soft-focused images on the back of her books; her rumored affection for SFist mascot Vanessa Getty; her shifting into reverse with homely SF society; her daughters (fun!); her sons (sexy!); her home (insane!); her work (scintillating!); her money (loads!) -- we can't pick one reason. We just kinda like the gal. And according to a recent LA Times article on shoes, here's yet another to love la Steel:
[Barneys shoe sales associate John Rutenberg] says Barneys shoppers aren't flinching at the prices. "Danielle Steel spends $4 [million] to $5 million a year at Barneys on shoes for herself and her children," he says, adding that the Beverly Hills store "sells $22 million in footwear per year."
Wasting money, contrary to what you've heard, is both fun and decadent. Way to go, Danielle.
(Ew. Forgive us for this momentary Sex and the City moment; may God save us all from the many, many, MANY tired shows and blogs Darren Star has helped spawn.)
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ummm 4-5 Million a year!?!?!?! I am sorry but I don't believe it. I own way to many pairs of +$500 shoes from LV, Ferragomo, Bottenga Venneta, etc. So I feel a little qualified to call BS on this quote.
You would really be hard pressed to find a pair of shoes for more then a few thousand (the most expense pair I ever tried on *just for fun* was a 7k pair of LV Alligator loafers but finding those is rare) but the vast majority of high end designer shoes come in between $500-$1000.
so even if she was avg $1k per pair that's 4-5 THOUSAND PAIRS OF SHOES A YEAR!!! just at Barneys!!!! I don't think so.
yeah, it does seem like a lot. but it does say "family" as well.
so that's still 1000 pairs a shoes a year for each family member?!?!?! Just at Barneys. She doesn't go across the street to LV, Gucci, Chanel, Ferragomo, etc and check out the collections there?
The kids don't buy shoes for themselves? ever?
Look I can believe she spends 4-5 million in total at barneys every wear, buying shoes, clothes, gifts, cosmetics, bags, etc. But not just on shoes.
sorry I just don't believe it.
Now, I might believe she spends 400-500k on shoes at Barneys but not Millions.
I really like Ross myself, but don't tell anyone.
show us the receipts, danni
I think that Barneys shoe sales associate John Rutenberg is a little confused.
Yeah, I can believe the total if it's for everything spent at Barneys, but $4-5 mil JUST on shoes and ONLY at Barney's? I also call b.s.
I've always felt Darren Star has never really gotten his full due.
That's repulsive. There are people starving to death in the streets and this tacky woman is wasting millions of American dollars on shoes? It's bad enough that her books are polluting the minds of untold thousands of retards, but this is criminal. She and her entire family should be rounded up.
You have to admire her chutzpah in getting 26 parking permits a few years back:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/29/BA113374.DTL
aj, i completely forgot about that! that really was her finest moment.
@AYM
How is your buying cheap tacky shoes at payless shoe source helping the starving folk?
I have to agree with AYM. It's one thing for a person making $24K per year to buy shoes at payless. Everyone needs shoes. But $5 mil worth? That money could be better spent elsewhere.
Like handbags and Agent Provacateur lingerie.
But seriously, $5 mil on shoes is ridiculous when people are sleeping on the streets and eating out of garbage cans (and shitting on the street trees).
ow ow. $5 million? that was like a bad touch for my brain.
Vanessa Getty can be the SFist mascot when she pries the sign from Frank Chu's cold, dead hands.
If wearing slingback pumps lovingly handcrafted of the supple scrotal skins of rarest south china tigers by indentured toddlers is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Zeemeister -
Payless Shoe Source?! As if! I buy my shoes at Shoe Pavilion! You know nothing!
Oh Jeff and yours shoes...it makes me laugh so ;)
Her daughters are boring, her sons overtrained fops, and her work is formulaic; worse yet, the SFist only puts these teasers up to attract the momentary irritation endemic in the -ist readership. I'm leaving this site. I have work to do.