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...NAIVE YOUTH, I went to parties for the free alcohol, the food, the networking and the vague hope of finding a woman willing to give it up. I used to?and this is embarrassing to admit?turn down the gift bag. That's right: I'd walk out the door, waving my hand in a superior, negative gesture, somehow hoping that it would make me look cool, that the publicists would think I really cared about them and their event, which was important because they were women with things to give up. Besides, I figured the gift bags were full...
...gift bag, always a staple of weddings and kids' parties, got a shot of steroids in 2001 when the Oscars started handing out bags of really pricey stuff to presenters. When the red carpet became a well-covered event unto itself, clothing and jewelry designers figured out that they got more attention by lending items to nominees than they did by paying for a prohibitively expensive Oscars commercial. Inadvertently, In Style magazine had created a black market for celebrities...
Seeing how clothes were getting all that attention, scented candles demanded a way in. Back in 2000, Los Angeles' Distinctive Assets (DA), the largest awards-show gifting firm, had trouble persuading companies not only to donate free stuff to celebrities but also to pay DA for the privilege. For this year's MTV Video Music Awards show bag, MTV set the minimum at $250 a gift. Distinctive Assets' 2005 Grammy bag was worth $30,000 and included free LASIK surgery, a membership at Sports Club/LA and a weekend at the Valhalla Shooting Club. The company even custom-builds some bags...
...gift bag has trickled down to every local charity function, and Distinctive Assets is constantly asked to do bar mitzvahs, weddings and dinner parties, which they sometimes will as a favor to a big client or celebrity. Madison & Mulholland, a gift-bag company in New York City, even produces bags several times a year for United Airlines' first-class passengers and the Hampton Jitney, which is a commuter bus between Manhattan and Long Island, N.Y. ?People who go out to the Hamptons are trendsetters,? says Jane Ubell-Meyer, who founded Madison & Mulholland four years ago. We will...
...Last Monday, the subcommittee conducted two rounds of interviews before contacting Borden and Kadakia later that night to tell them they had been chosen. The seven members of the subcommittee were drawn from the entire Senior Class Committee, which is made up of the eight class marshals, two Senior Gift representatives, and a representative from each House. Moore said he was encouraged by the unusually high number of applicants for the two positions. “This just goes to show that people are really excited about senior year and the Senior Class Committee,” Moore said...