Top stories published by Altluxe in 2015

It’s no doubt a good thing that smoking (cigarettes at least) is no longer as popular a pastime as it once was. It’s better to live in a world where one can experience the joy of walking into a bar without reeling at the thickness of acrid fresh smoke and…

Regina Connell in Altluxe

Jul 9, 2015

Don’t settle. When ethics are not enough.

Don’t get me wrong. I do love bunnies. I do love artisans. I do love the earth. I do love people (for the most part). But the Ethical Marketing Machine? Not so much.

Regina Connell in Altluxe

Aug 2, 2015

End of empire stuff

Despite the fact that the world is full of strife on one end and bad taste on the other, I’m not one to let these things get me too terribly down. But there was one thing that really got me depressed and truth be told, disgusted.

Regina Connell in Altluxe

Oct 10, 2015

Collected stories

It seems to be that if you like the finer things in life, and are far enough along to have a lot of the basics taken care of, at some point you will confront the “c” word. As in collecting. As in being a collector. As in having a collection.

Regina Connell in Altluxe

Sep 6, 2015

The thing about things

At long last, I’m weighing in on the unlikely book that blew the minds of publishers everywhere: a book from a little known (in the West, at least) Japanese home organization consultant. I’m of course talking about Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

Regina Connell in Altluxe

May 22, 2015

Modern patronage

A word popped up in my consciousness as I was reading a review of the recent exhibit called What is Luxury? at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Patronage.

Regina Connell in Altluxe

Feb 22, 2015

Shhh.

Secrets. They’re not supposed to exist, are they? We’re supposed to tell it all, share it all, let it all hang out, preferably online. Mental health types talk about the corrosive effects of secrets. We barely tolerate the notion that some state secrets should remain that way. And TMZ’s created a $100 million empire…

Regina Connell in Altluxe

Feb 6, 2015

Guest Post: Essential Truths

I don’t remember the name of the saint whose statue was housed in a church in Antigua, Guatemala. I remember the soft, tarnished metal. The figure had obviously been touched over and over, maybe thousands of times. Its original polish had conceded to the demands of life as an…

Regina Connell in Altluxe

Jun 8, 2015

Telling stories

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