The Iconic AltLuxe Store

By Regina Connell.

One of the other questions I get asked a lot (other than the one about the home) is “what’s the iconic AltLuxe lifestyle (not just clothing) store?”

The key to luxury: awe

By Regina Connell.

I was wandering around San Francisco’s Pacific Heights the other day. Cold and rainy, it was actually the perfect shopping day, tailor-made for lingering in stores, rather than wandering in between.

Sustainable luxe

Ah the great thing about getting out there and talking about AltLuxe is — of course — the people you meet: people who get excited, add to the thinking and the insights, and make it so much better.

Consuming pleasures: the S word

Sale.

Funny word, that. For some people, that word is like catnip. When that email plops into that mailbox, eyes light up, plans are made, research is done. (Flights may even be booked.) Then, in the store, or online, there’s a frenzy: hunt, buy…

AltLuxe eating

I live in the Bay Area, where we’re known for our restaurants, our food “scene”. Every week, some chef who cut his teeth at Chez Panisse, Coi, Aqua, etc. bounds onto the scene with another “hot” restaurant announcement. The produce — the cow, the hog, the chicken, the beet — is sourced (usually from…

The luxury of time

There’s one thing that keeps coming up in conversations about luxury, and it has nothing to do with stuff and things and sensuality.

It doesn’t even cost money, not in the absolute, so it seems to feel less status-y, more wholesome.

What will you leave behind?

What is this stuff that surrounds us and what does it mean?

A great deal of this blog is about what to buy (or rather what not to) and how to relate to what you buy but when all is said and done — and I do mean done — what do you leave behind, what does…

Savoring summer

Ahhh summer. With the thwack and crack of balls on Wimbledon’s center court, I feel we’re finally, definitively in it.

A lot of people absolutely adore summer. They love the time, the weather, the being outdoors…but I have to say, I feel about summer the way that people feel…