Alex Kuczynski Knows the Pain of Emotional Desolation
In her I Get Paid to Spend Money column today, Times painted lady Alex Kuczynski skips over to Henri Bendel, the Fifth Avenue temple that serves as a "limitless warehouse of luxury and desire." But this column is not about the onyx flash of Kuczynski's AmEx, nor is it really about her dissatisfaction with the store's lack of a "coherent identity." Instead, Alex wants to share her sadness, the incomparable misery of self-realization:
For all its artful arraying, though, I have not found anything I wanted to buy during the course of three visits over the last year. The company Web site describes the Bendel ethos as "youthful New York glamour at its finest." Somewhere along the way, I must have ceased to be young and glamorous. At least I'm still from New York.
Oh, Kuczynski! Oh, humanity!
