
Got to roam around the
Galleria in Edina last week with fashion designer
Zang Toi - you might know him from "Real Housewives of New York City," if not from the $8,000 dress department at
Nordstrom. Celebs worship his work so much, they actually
pay for it:
Sharon Stone has the $6,000 cashmere and wool hand stitched wrap in
10 colors. Zang was in town for three days to do a trunk show and a party with his good friend Kevin Quinn of
StyledLife. (He went home to NYC for the weekend and returned again on Monday for an appearance at Nordstrom Mall of America - talk about sharing some love with the little apple!) Now, I've shopped with picky, privileged characters, but Zang was a whole new level of elite: he really buys
nothing off the rack. Except at
Hermes. His life is entirely customized, from his gym shorts (velvet) to his phone, lip balm and house key (all silver). He was totally game to walk the mall and browse...just entirely uninterested. The line of the day: "It's fine for other people - not for Zang Toi." But he says it with such an infectious laugh, you can't help but be charmed. After I picked my chin up off the floor when he told me he'd never been to
Target (should have marched him across the street on the spot), I asked Zang how and where he gets his basic, household stuff - toilet paper, tin foil. He had no idea. That's what assistants are for. But there's no assistant manning his
Facebook page. Zang has recently discovered social networking and despite his caviar taste in life, online, he's willing to slum it with the masses. Read all about our visit to
Len Druskin and beyond in the
St. Paul Pioneer Press on Sunday, Nov. 1.
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