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the selling of the socialite; Forget Paris: Park Avenue is going public.
Byline: William Norwich
Despite the challenges of foggy cell-phone reception from her in-laws' English garden to me in Times Square, Amanda Brooks is determined to explain the meaning of the word masstige.
Masstige? Sounds like a Mack truck with, I don't know, Tiffany hubcaps.
"Frederic Fekkai gave me the word, but I don't think he originated it," Amanda says. "Mass plus prestige equals masstige. Take the idea of Chanel No 5 and apply it to everything." Amanda is referring to the first time an elite, luxury designer branded something for mass consumption.
I had called Amanda to arrange a meeting in the office of her literary agent, ...
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