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Pictured above: German-born photographer and Opel automobile heir Gunter Sachs playing chess with a “friend”. Via WSJ.com
The Wall Street Journal Magazine recently asked her readers ‘Where Have All the Playboys Gone?’ in the recent article “Death of a Playboy.” The Journal posits that today’s moneyed men are more concerned about popping bottles than owning exquisite examples of worldly craftsmanship.
Robert Evans, Hollywood producer (Chinatown, The Godfather) and old-world man-of-mystery says, “When money is everything, charm goes out the window.” The Journal article discusses such classic examples of “playboys” as Mick Jagger, George Hamilton, Peter Beard, and Gianni Agnelli and their jobs, travels, women (always multiple!) and sartorial wardrobes in fine form.
These men and their ilk no longer travel to the “hot” destinations of Saint-Tropez or Gstaad, as those locales are full of nothing but “money-grubbers and vulgarians”. The nouveau-riche men of today do not appreciate the effort of accumulation and the class that money cannot buy. The Journal leaves us with this particularly fitting example:
Saint-Tropez acts as a bellwether of what’s been lost. It’s now all about liquor-brand-and-celebrity-endorsed private parties, pop-up clubs and techno-Gaga spectacle, and whirling choppers hitting the Riviera with the subtlety of a Michael Bay movie. Baggy shorts and backward ball caps are the uniform of choice worn by the new players, even at once-chic seaside spots like Club 55 and La Voile Rouge. This summer, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin stayed in an $8,000-per-night suite at the Hotel Byblos and ran up a $50,000 bar tab entertaining a flock of models.
