In the V.I.P. reception area, there was an even more V.I.P. room, and I counted at least eight or nine billionaires.
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You can also add people to your V.I.P. list by tapping the encircled "i" on the right side of the V.I.P. mailbox line in the Mailboxes list.
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To get push notifications that someone on your V.I.P. list has sent a message, tap the V.I.P. Alerts button and choose the style of onscreen alert you wish to see.
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Mbadinga's V.I.P. Unisex Salon & African Hair Braiding just opened.
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Clubs are catering only to the slim and the rich, or have ballooned into funfair malls with three stages and eight dance floors and 270 bars and V.I.P. rooms inside V.I.P. rooms.
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Château Lynch-Bages also provides private tours, tailored to V.I.P. customers.
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At least one V.I.P. has voiced casual support for the idea.
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There is an unofficial circuit of V.I.P. parties and piggyback events.
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The V.I.P. experience costs $35,000, with proceeds supporting the nonprofit organizing committee.
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That means a faster-paced show, V.I.P. upsells and some flashier stagecraft.
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I get to mingle with the other fighters in the V.I.P. lounge.
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General admission tickets have sold out, but various V.I.P. packages are available.rollingloud.
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The winner gets a cash prize and a 30-day V.I.P. pass.
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The V.I.P. crew even snagged a photo with Mickey Mouse at the event.
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The captain was worried about the stomachs and nerves of his V.I.P. passengers.
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A publicist offers to slip me into the V.I.P. area to meet her.
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Our spot appears to be even better than the Calvin Klein V.I.P. section.
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"Magnus blew it," said Maurice Ashley, a grandmaster watching in a V.I.P. area.
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Those with V.I.P. tickets get to shake his hand and take a picture.
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What happens, I wondered, in the V.I.P. rooms of the world's biggest club?
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"The students allowed ambulances to go through but stopped V.I.P. cars," he explained.
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The rich and famous came out for the V.I.P. opening of Hudson Yards.
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He moved to London in his late teens and joined the band V.I.P.'s.
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General admission , $45 advance, $55 day of; V.I.P. tickets, $150 advance, $175 day of.
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If anyone on staff so much as texts about a V.I.P. guest, they're fired.
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And wealthy clients are consulting with concierge doctors and other V.I.P. health care services.
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That means splurging on some V.I.P. perks, like lounge access and business-class seats.
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Age: 35 Occupation: V.I.P. relations, Grand Basel car show You're wearing a one-piece.
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For people with flooded inboxes, lacking V.I.P. alerts makes sifting through emails time-consuming.
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Maybe the minion who monitors your V.I.P.'s social media accounts will even reply.
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The V.I.P. directors were nectar for investor bees, but they had no relevant expertise.
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If this colony had been a V.I.P. colony, the dump would have been removed.
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The Art Show held a V.I.P. preview at the Park Avenue Armory on Feb.
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It opens Wednesday to V.I.P. ticket holders, and to the public Thursday through Sunday.
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But those differences stop at accommodations; No V.I.P. sections or access are available otherwise.
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He and wife Victoria Prince had their own V.I.P. area complete with bottle service.
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Tickets are available at $229 for the weekend or $459 for V.I.P. passes, at electricdaisycarnival.com.
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Watch famous billionaire heiresses go head-to-head in Miami's most V.I.P. horse jumping competition.
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"Britney is very shy," Felicia Culotta, the V.I.P. coordinator, said on one night last year.
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It would not be easy, even for a V.I.P. with an army of staffers. Mrs.
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In the 1950s, Moscow began releasing war prisoners, and some reported meeting a V.I.P. inmate.
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The Iraqis insisted, politely, that all bags must be screened, even in the V.I.P. terminal.
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The popular and beautiful have always had private parties, invite-only conferences and V.I.P. rooms.
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You then only have to open the V.I.P. mailbox to see the messages you want.
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On the next screen, select "Add V.I.P.…" and choose an address from your contacts list.
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V.I.P. guests also get the chance to ride in a two-seater Formula One car.
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Before the show, I saw her smiling broadly as she walked into the V.I.P. area.
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Jonathan Aguiar, DraftKings' director of V.I.P. services, is also a former poker player known as FatalError.
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The V.I.P. treatment hadn't come at extra cost or because they thought we were someone special.
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The vice president of V.I.P. international operations, Jason O'Connor, was among those detained, the statement said.
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In the V.I.P. tent, waitresses were loading tables with dishes of salsa and colored tortilla chips.
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Trump and the Agalarovs presided in one of the V.I.P. boxes, receiving guests and taking photographs.
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A two-day general admission pass costs $230, with V.I.P. versions available for $495 and $1,600.
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In the mezzanine's "Gypsy V.I.P," guests pay $40 to be photographed while wearing traditional Bulgarian costumes.
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Waiters ferried ornate fruit platters and Grey Goose bottles topped with sparklers to the V.I.P. tables.
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We need to come up with a "Beach V.I.P. from that," and the answer is LIFEGUARD.
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Reyes still eats often at Bravo, sometimes with Rosario and Lagares, and they get V.I.P. treatment.
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The mission is to "completely treat everyone like a V.I.P.," said Rick Pruett, the executive director.
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On a roof deck, she met up with Gavin McInnes, another of the DeploraBall's V.I.P. guests.
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White House reporters — rare as unicorns in the V.I.P.-heavy crowd of 3,000 — should be grateful.
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A parade of the V.I.P. Ladies and Kids Social Aid and Pleasure Club earlier this month.
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Tap the sender's name and on the screen of contact details that appears, scroll down and tap "Add to V.I.P." If you have done all that and do not see a V.I.P. mailbox listed in the Mail apps's list of mailboxes, it may be hidden from view.
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This joyful, powerful and exceptionally beautiful new adaptation of "The Jungle Book" really is the Jungle V.I.P.
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For V.I.P. customers, like DeAndre Jordan of the Los Angeles Clippers, he offers bulk sneaker home pickup.
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The production, attended by a heavily guarded V.I.P. guest list, was broadcast live on Russian state television.
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After the show, those inside the V.I.P. circle were guided through the labyrinthine food court to dinner.
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Charges for optional extras like V.I.P. rooms or spa services will generally be paid out of pocket.
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She had already shelled out hundreds of dollars for V.I.P. passes in celebration of her coming birthday.
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Ticket prices ran upward of $2,000 for a V.I.P. package that included choice seats and selfie opportunities.
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The first hint came when her husband, Philip, quietly slid into a seat in the V.I.P. gallery.
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When he was sworn in as president, Ms. Vrablic sat in the V.I.P. section of the audience.
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And for travelers in London who want privacy, there are suites available through the Heathrow V.I.P. service.
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"Mayoral V.I.P. flight to off site LZ at Hunters Point Queens," reads the log for the trip.
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A spiral staircase, with a bronze dragon coiled around its bannister, leads to the V.I.P. fitting rooms.
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Last week, Fabletics was offering a "new V.I.P. membership exclusive" in which it discounts various outfits to $25.
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The festival featured a pop-up shop, estate tour, beachside performances and a V.I.P. dinner with Casey Spooner.
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These were not V.I.P. seats, and we were far back on the National Mall, the proceedings barely visible.
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Among the packages were V.I.P. tours — including access to Prince's rehearsal rooms and video editing suites — for $100.
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From the Trump campaign's perspective, it was utilizing its four seats in the V.I.P. box as it should.
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The health minister cut a red ribbon, and V.I.P. guests smiled as state television recorded the entire event.
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"You can't V.I.P. yourself, but an agent has the ability to do that for you," Mr. Bush said.
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About half of the hotel's 269 rooms are booked to V.I.P.'s during the week of the race.
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He offered me a mimosa and a line of credit with a V.I.P. Park West monthly payment plan.
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The Great GoogaMooga, a music and food festival, charged hundreds of dollars for V.I.P. tickets at Prospect Park.
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It was a clothing purge, not a V.I.P. opening, which will be taking place at the space Feb.
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But when they do make their move, the duke and duchess won't get a V.I.P. pass through immigration.
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On the first night, Mr. Verardo and his wife sat in the V.I.P. box with Mr. Trump's family.
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But at the V.I.P. preview on Wednesday, the mood was decidedly more muted, the aisles noticeably less crowded.
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V.I.P. tickets—four hundred and ninety-nine bucks for the weekend—got you plenty of shade and an open bar, but I didn't find anyone in the V.I.P. area who would admit to paying; everybody seemed to be in the surf business, one way or another, and had been comped in.
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Taken with sweet Blair's sheer enthusiasm, flight crews began recognizing the girl and treating her as a V.I.P. client.
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About 950 people were at the venue when the shooting started in a V.I.P. area, according to the police.
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There were hardly any real V.I.P. sections, and musicians who performed were often spotted in the audience, watching others.
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Nearly a third of the money came from its V.I.P. program, which is largely driven by mainland Chinese clients.
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They tell of swift V.I.P. entry to a sold-out Beyoncé concert, where 45,000 commoners thronged at the gates.
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"Recently in Moscow it became a trend to add some intellectual chess flavor to V.I.P. social events," he said.
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Beluga, a high-end Russian vodka, sponsored a glassed-in V.I.P. room with leather club chairs and unlimited drinks.
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Those two were waiting for another V.I.P.: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, whose plane landed just minutes after the attack.
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These are more than V.I.P. perks, said Mary Huddleston Tabacchi, professor emerita at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
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One day in December 2012, a young Malaysian V.I.P. entered the gleaming headquarters of Goldman Sachs in Lower Manhattan.
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For eight hours, Ms. Dion stood, black veil covering her face, accepting condolences — no V.I.P. access, no special tickets.
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Ticket packages included the $400,000 "Artist's Palace," with four beds, eight V.I.P. tickets and dinner with one festival performer.
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She and her friend had V.I.P. tickets to the inauguration ceremony, and to an Inaugural Ball on Friday night.
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He was late and arrived with a suitcase, packed for a trip to Beijing to see a V.I.P. customer.
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The shirtless bartenders in the V.I.P. lounge spill mixers on one another and, egged on by the crowd, kiss.
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The V.I.P. lounge for members upstairs at the Roundabout—they had themed drinks, like the 'Design for Living'-tini.
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An all-weekend ticket runs $195; V.I.P. passes, at $350, allow you to skip the line at each venue.
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With hip-hop and reggae throbbing, waiters forded the crowd to deliver sparkler-topped Champagne bottles to V.I.P. archipelagoes.
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The glamorous caravan took up spots on a V.I.P. riser inside the boutique but stayed for only 20 minutes.
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Lang fought his way into a V.I.P. area where Leonardo DiCaprio, the star of "The Revenant," was holding court.
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Some card issuers let you redeem your points for V.I.P. experiences, many of which can only be booked with rewards.
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A glass pyramid serves as a V.I.P. entryway, offering access to an underground auction house, personal shoppers and butler service.
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A group of young women in sequined outfits was doing a choreographed dance on the bar near the V.I.P. area.
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They have property everywhere but live nowhere, moving with the sun, seasons and an increasingly crowded calendar of V.I.P. events.
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The presenters' workdays generally begin at a V.I.P. area where Tour sponsors receive corporate guests well before the stage starts.
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Dildos glowed under black light in a V.I.P. room as D.J.s spun from a set list of modish 1990s tunes.
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Duties include delivering "the highest quality V.I.P. hospitality for all government departments and ministers" and managing the government's wine cellar.
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Watching the two leaders pal around in the V.I.P. box, it was difficult for me to think of much else.
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If you pay $1,000 for "Press Secretary" access, you get four tickets, personalized books and access to a V.I.P. reception.
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At the "Deputy Press Secretary" level ($500), you get two tickets to the party and V.I.P. reception, plus signed books.
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He drew a satirical picture of crowds waiting at the door, unable to access the V.I.P. portion of the preview.
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Tickets for Monday's game were still available at $200 for a regular day pass and $500 for a V.I.P. ticket.
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So they engaged the award-winning Dutch furniture company Lensvelt, which helped furnish the V.I.P. lounge at the Schiphol airport.
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Mr. O'Reilly, on vacation in Italy for the past week, sat in a V.I.P. section and shook hands with Francis.
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"We have had a request from the State Department for a V.I.P. delegation," said James Tattersall, the hotel's director of marketing.
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The police said a gunman opened fire in a V.I.P. green room above the stage of the club around 10 p.m.
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"Fans pay well over $1,000 on either secondary premium tickets or for those V.I.P. experiences that many bands offer," he said.
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Parades, V.I.P. tours and various public functions often require service members to line up, fill seats and keep our mouths shut.
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A three-day general admission pass to Coachella, for example, can run $500, or close to $1,000 for a V.I.P. ticket.
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"I've partied here before," said Joakim Noah, the New York Knicks center, who stripped to an undershirt in a V.I.P. area.
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"Time and again our V.I.P. collectors come in on cruises with one purpose and one purpose only," Steven told the group.
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For those who don't have V.I.P. access, there's another way to get front and center at a rally: Show up early.
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During the innings break, the renowned national team player Mohammed Shahzad walks out of the V.I.P. room in jeans and sandals.
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He entered the U.N. through a V.I.P. door and speed-walked up an escalator, with about a dozen staffers jogging behind.
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When Forbes magazine estimates your net worth at nearly $3 billion, V.I.P. treatment — even from the White House — tends to follow.
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By contrast, the V.I.P. area, an L-shaped expanse with a vodka bar and sweeping views of the harbor, was packed.
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One of her V.I.P. clients, Jimmie Vaughan, the Grammy-winning Austin blues guitarist and singer, called to ask for a favor.
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That's Ms. Mueller, a Broadway star in waiting for several years, who here steps confidently into the V.I.P. room of musical headliners.
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He uses the stadium's V.I.P. section to entertain state officials and wealthy business leaders — raising questions about conflicts of interest, and corruption.
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Mr. Olmert will be held in Wing 10 of Maasiyahu Prison, a section that many Israelis refer to as the V.I.P. wing.
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It shows Mr. Collins bursting through the door of a V.I.P. room on the second floor of the theater onto a balcony.
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The takeout bags of bagels were provided for volunteers, not V.I.P.'s, who were given a different meal at a different location.
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Compared with its rivals like The Star casino in Sydney, Crown has a greater exposure to China and the lucrative V.I.P. market.
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A barricaded V.I.P. circle included the "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King and Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York.
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"I was surprised that they thwarted that, only because it did not say family box, it said V.I.P. box," Ms. Conway said.
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There are early and late seatings, and, for nondiners, an upstairs bar with a view of the stage and a V.I.P. area.
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Those medical connections also extend to getting a patient admitted into a hospital through its V.I.P. services, if additional care is needed.
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One for the people who have no power, and one for the people who we are letting in through the V.I.P. entrance.
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But using the keys required sacrificing an important feature — Apple's V.I.P. alerts, which notify you when people you deem important email you.
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He was attending a V.I.P. preview of the four-day show, which featured more than 60 dealers and many hundreds of artists.
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Times executives and employees are well accustomed to V.I.P. visits, but they are usually given days — if not weeks — of advance notice.
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At Wednesday morning's V.I.P. opening, the Basel crowd was noticeably thinner than in past years, though boldfaced names were still in evidence.
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Mind you, one of the points of "Six Degrees" is that everybody feels like an outsider, including those in the V.I.P. rooms.
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"My mother has been nagging me about this for years," Ms. Sui said at a table in the tennis center's V.I.P. area.
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The vice president of V.I.P. international operations, Jason O'Connor, who oversaw the company's efforts to attract wealthy players, was among those detained.
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The Smoker's Club wasn't merely a V.I.P. lounge; it was a secret one, unlisted in the Marina Bay Sands Casino's own brochures.
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The Venetian hotel in Las Vegas reserves a handful of its more than 3,000 rooms for V.I.P. clients, available by invite only.
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MARGARET LYONS It's hard to be raunchier than some of the stuff on Adult Swim, but "The New V.I.P.'s" manages it.
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To get the look, Fugate first spritzed Kérastase V.I.P. Volume in Powder Dry Volumizing and Texturizing Spray into dry hair to add volume.
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But they contain a hidden element of artificial intelligence as well: images are collected and compared with a facial database of V.I.P. customers.
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The point of the event was to encourage two dozen retailers, V.I.P. clients and journalists to experience and share Breitling's high-testosterone brand.
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The problem stumped even Apple's V.I.P. support team, which got involved after Mr. Viswanathan emailed Apple's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, for help.
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The bride, 26, is an associate at 23/7 Global in New York, a ticketing company specializing in V.I.P. packages for music events.
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The debate hall, in a university sports and exhibition complex, includes about 100 seats in a V.I.P. section in front of the stage.
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Otherwise attendance was what he expected — between 1,0003 and 3,000 per game, paying $20 to $30 per ticket, with V.I.P. seats fetching $100.
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Over in the V.I.P. section, Jeremy Scott said he appreciated the uptick in political and social awareness exhibited at this year's fashion shows.
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On April 15 last year, a Qatari man arrived in the V.I.P. terminal on an evening flight from his country's capital city, Doha.
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Sick while rich: The wealthy are ditching first class for private planes and consulting with concierge doctors and other V.I.P. health care services.
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Then Philipp Plein hosted an extravagant affair at the New York Public Library, with a V.I.P. dinner upstairs and a bigger party downstairs.
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The two went out to nightclubs three or four times a month, sitting in V.I.P. sections where Mr. Woodard spent lavishly on alcohol.
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He stood nearby when Tommy Hilfiger got into a fistfight with Axl Rose in the V.I.P. area of the Chelsea club the Plumm.
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When Mr. Zhao, 53, pointed out a bathroom used by a former prime minister, one tourist sprinted off to experience the V.I.P. urinal.
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The Rob & Chyna star also received the V.I.P. treatment, being treated to a arm and hand massage as dancers from the club surrounded her.
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"We do everything here to make you happy and satisfied," Xu said brightly, as she led me through a V.I.P. suite with a Jacuzzi.
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Cynthia Erivo took a long, level look at her reflection in the V.I.P. room at the Tory Burch shop on Madison Avenue last week.
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In the V.I.P. section of the stands at the show, groups of Israeli and Palestinian breeders amiably mingled and cheered for their respective horses.
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Decorated with posters, mismatched chairs and British knickknacks, it looks more like the ramshackle studio apartment of a graduate student than a V.I.P. haunt.
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They tell me that places of even more exclusivity exist, where V.I.P. customers can move through airports without coming into contact with other passengers.
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At Universal, where the night began with a V.I.P. van tour of the studio's back lot, Mr. Quaid filled a different role: movie nerd.
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He had been scheduled to appear as a guest of T.I. that night and had entered through a V.I.P. entrance, according to the lawsuit.
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Within five months, the app upgraded Mr. Santos to Uber V.I.P., meaning more rides, priority airport bookings and better promotions for him every week.
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After the performance, Mr. Plein joined Paris Hilton, Carine Roitfeld and her daughter, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, in a V.I.P. area in the dining room.
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But enthusiasm for the changes was tangible among the hundreds of V.I.P. guests, who included government ministers, social media stars and at least one princess.
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Anderson was seen sporting a large ring on her right hand as she caught the match from a V.I.P. box alongside French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Little wonder, then, that the inspiration for his holiday spectacle, which follows a V.I.P. showroom he designed for the Tod's store in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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He says in the episode of "The Weekly" that he paid $200,000 for V.I.P. access to Mr. Trump's inauguration, but never received the promised tickets.
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Photos by Theo Jemison Sam Baker's first taste of success came in the V.I.P. section of a strip club at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
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Many don sashes that read "bride squad," and there is the occasional tiara-wearing bride-to-be on her last fling in a V.I.P. area.
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Vrablic received V.I.P. tickets to the inauguration, as well as hard-to-get accommodations in Trump's newly opened Washington hotel that Deutsche Bank had financed.
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Without them, American astronomers, accustomed to V.I.P. seating in observations of the universe, could be largely consigned to the cosmic bleachers in years to come.
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This V.I.P. access came at a higher cost, but I figured if I nixed buying almonds for a few months I could balance my budget.
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When he arrived in Helmand Province a couple of years ago, he was greeted with garlands of flowers and boarded in a V.I.P. government guesthouse.
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And that belief was borne out by the buzzy atmosphere that prevailed in the main hall at the Miami Convention Center during Wednesday's V.I.P. showing.
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Frenchy traveled often to Paris to keep up with the latest styles and coifed the hair of Harlem V.I.P.'s, including Diahann Carroll and Mrs.
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This, together with the grade-fixing scandals at other colleges, shows that the favoritism given to athletes (and other V.I.P. students) does not stop with admissions.
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" If you watched "The Sopranos," you got a V.I.P. seat at the Bada Bing; past midnight, there were egghead-voyeur documentaries like "Hookers at the Point.
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Also, since my journalist visa makes me a V.I.P. guest of the Saudi government, I'm staying in a compound where there are clean toilets and showers.
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Operation Olympia called for Israeli agents to plant a massive set of bombs under a V.I.P. dais under construction in a Beirut stadium where, on Jan.
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But this rare book fair in a London park remained a world away from the V.I.P. glitz of high-end art fairs like Frieze or Masterpiece.
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Its V.I.P.-studded book launch was held at the Fort of the Nine Towers in November, and an English translation is due from Aazem this year.
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Guests staying in certain high-end suites at the Rosewood London, for example, qualify for free access to the V.I.P. private terminal at London's Heathrow Airport.
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In the statement, Dr. Frank said the school was trying to reach the brothers to reimburse them and offer to bring them back as V.I.P. guests.
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Consider private jet companies like NetJets and Wheels Up. Both had big V.I.P. facilities at the Masters and big parties featuring professional golfers and television commentators.
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Here he is in the V.I.P. section of the 50th-anniversary ceremony for the March on Washington and, yet again, at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
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Here's some GREAT footage of soccer superstar Neymar in a V.I.P. meeting with Kevin Durant and Draymond Green after the Warriors beat down the Cavs on Sunday.
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But thanks to Lucien Alwyn Campbell, a V.I.P. concierge for hire, he got the kind of red carpet treatment usually reserved for, well, people on red carpets.
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The regular entry fee was $94 plus processing fees, but those slots sold out in 48 hours, leaving only the V.I.P. spots for $325 plus handling fees.
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Whenever she criticized Trump's sexism, Republicans would counter with Lewinsky; Trump even tried to seat Broaddrick and three other accusers in his V.I.P. box during a debate.
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The designer, in his customary shorts suit, will be present, but the real V.I.P. is shorter, hairier and quickly gaining a following: His wire-haired dachshund, Hector.
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The group bounded up the stairs to a V.I.P. section of the restaurant, along with her bodyguard, Mike, whose job this evening mostly involved holding her purse.
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If there are people whose emails you feel you simply cannot miss — for example, your family or your boss — create V.I.P. lists (you can follow these instructions).
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On day five of business at the Chinese-owned New MGM casino last month, Chinese gamblers could be seen placing bets of $100,000 in the V.I.P. room.
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Therefore, by fraudulently raising their SAT or ACT scores, those applicants who had famous parents were simply making themselves more competitive vis-à-vis other V.I.P. offspring.
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The ballroom appeared to be a makeshift barracks for guards, while the V.I.P. detainees were being held in some of the hotel's 23 guest rooms and suites.
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Park West would request his presence at V.I.P. sales events, sometimes asking him to visit several cities in a weekend, according to three people who accompanied him.
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When we got there, they put all these fake tattoos between my breasts and led us to the V.I.P. section, so I was really high on myself.
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Before the game, she patrolled the court like a nightclub V.I.P., greeted by hugs from Fujitsu players while spectators wearing Storm and JX-Eneos apparel took photographs.
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They also flew to Washington for the White House Easter Egg Roll, and were part of a V.I.P. group who met the President and the First Lady.
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Tickets are $29 for general admission or $129 for a V.I.P. ticket that includes priority seating at presentations and panels and a goody bag packed with samples.
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At Wednesday's V.I.P. preview, more sedate than the running-of-the-bulls ambience of years past, gallerists and curators spoke in apocalyptic terms about America after Jan.
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She settled in the V.I.P. waiting room, and unloaded a whole household there: carpets, potted palms, a silver tea set, Nepali servants in livery, glossy Great Danes.
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In one bunkerlike V.I.P. room, a group of lithe women and men in scoop-neck tees clustered around a table laden with bottles of tequila and mixers.
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On the appointed night of the show, in came Susanna and Mark Wilson, dressed in fancy clothes and toting third-row V.I.P. tickets and unobtrusive recording equipment.
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Ashlyn is the team's V.I.P. guest for their big game at the SheBelieves Cup Tuesday night -- and it was all made possible by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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The flight was the climax of a V.I.P. day at Tweed New Haven airport in Connecticut, on the team's second year of their tour of the United States.
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Mr. Collins was seen in surveillance video from the venue firing a gun into a crowd on the V.I.P. level as terrified concertgoers shielded themselves under a balcony.
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Bad news, Yankee fans: he was feeling disrespected, in this case by stadium employees who had failed to reserve his favorite table at the pre-game V.I.P. buffet.
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Take, for instance, a star exhibit at this year's new-look Biennale des Antiquaires fair in Paris, which previews to V.I.P. visitors in the Grand Palais on Friday.
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He chatted with the players who were gathered under the V.I.P. tent swigging beer and carbo-loading plates of lasagna in preparation for their professional responsibilities next week.
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The ladies of the hour stood in a V.I.P. area, posing for more pictures with their co-star Chris Colfer (of "Glee" fame) and their director, Mandie Fletcher.
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Transportation is a challenge at every Olympics, with networks of ad hoc bus routes and V.I.P. lanes created to carry thousands of people to and from the venues.
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The musicians were mere specks from behind rows of cushioned seats and V.I.P. sections, yet Mr. Cervony and Mr. Kray stood shoulder to shoulder, rapt and at ease.
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But at the V.I.P. preview of the Hong Kong art fair on Tuesday, neither Mr. Lin nor Ms. Lei was in the mood to make any quick decisions.
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Whether he appeared as a V.I.P. at Studio 303 or a rascal's dad in "Little Rascals," his character played up ruthless behavior toward wealth, business practices and women.
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They are often the first to detect a whiff of discontent from a V.I.P., like cast members of the network television shows who bed down there during filming.
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Unlike in years past, when there was only one V.I.P. day, this year the first two days of this year's fair will be open only to invited guests.
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He strutted in through the back entrance—he was holding a cane, which enhanced his royal aspect—and invited me across the velvet rope into the V.I.P. area.
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Regular admission includes whiskey tastings, with food and a souvenir glass; V.I.P. ticket holders get to visit the Dead Rabbit pop-up and sample special cocktails and oysters.
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Their price ranges from $79 for general admission on Sunday, to $449 for a weekend of V.I.P. access that includes a "fast-track" entrance and front-row seating.
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This summer, capitalism still stands strong on Randall's Island, which will host two stacked festivals within weeks of each other, both with oodles of V.I.P. packages on offer.
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It was also one of the few parties without a V.I.P. area, which made it easier for mere mortals to mingle with celebrities — and request selfies, of course.
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Stampeding billionaires took over Miami Beach for the annual art fair where everybody is V.I.P. Credit...John Taggart for The New York Times Leave it to Maurizio Cattelan.
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It will have its own office, pool and kitchen; like the nightclub's V.I.P. room, it is meant to be a private retreat from the rest of the house.
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Tickets range in price for the different events, starting from $35 for the hay-ride all the way up to $1,600 for the V.I.P. experience on a private wagon.
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But dress codes don't seem to matter for Odell Beckham -- who rocked shorts to one of the hottest nightspots in Hollywood on Thursday ... and still got the V.I.P. treatment.
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And they are throwing in a V.I.P. breakfast, which is sure to attract men who are not destitute; the investment banker-turned-sculptor demographic I so long to meet.
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BUSINESS DAY An article last Sunday about do-it-yourself wine blending and other luxury experiences referred incompletely to V.I.P. tours that include lunch and a shoe-designing experience.
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She owns more than 22014 of the bags, purchased as a V.I.P. customer from the Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo boutiques, as well as on secondary markets, via auctions.
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Dmitri S. Peskov, a press secretary to Mr. Putin, has appeared at the match in the venue's V.I.P. lounge; Mr. Putin, he said, receives constant updates on the match.
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Standing in the center of Gatsby's Garden, the event's V.I.P. section, was Michael Arenella, the conductor of the headliner, Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra, and the festival's founder.
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In droves they now go to the fairs, where they can view a swath of art in little time and socialize at the much-coveted V.I.P. openings and afterparties.
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Mr. Broidy offered tickets to V.I.P. inauguration events, including a candlelight dinner attended by Mr. Trump, to a Congolese strongman accused of funding a lavish lifestyle with public resources.
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Some of the most ardent fighters, many of them felons, became celebrities in their own right, offered speaking slots at rallies, where their V.I.P. status earned them police protection.
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SAVE ON A V.I.P. TOUR Ms. Goldsbury said that private theme park tours, which provide expedited entry into attractions, are the most exclusive way to visit the theme parks.
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The university said it was "sad and frustrating from nearly every angle," and offered to reimburse the prospective students for the trip and bring them back as V.I.P. guests.
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Entry usually requires the purchase of a business- or first-class ticket, and some V.I.P. lounges charge thousands of dollars per visit by individuals or small groups of travelers.
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Crown, based in Australia, said in a news release that the court had sentenced Jason O'Connor, the vice president of its V.I.P. international operations, to 10 months in prison.
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You can buy tickets to walk the grounds or have a V.I.P. dinner on a terrace with views of the display, which will be on view through Jan. 5.
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In a V.I.P. room overlooking the dance floor, Bourdain quizzed one of the owners, Bobby Kwak, a young Korean-American man in a black T-shirt, about the clientele.
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The Sheraton Park City, your standard mid-luxury chain, is the headquarters of the Film Festival, and on the second floor is a V.I.P. suite dedicated to jacket pickup.
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Tiers of V.I.P. donors have been created, aiming to raise up to $75 million from special interests, which won't be forgotten when the new administration gets down to governing.
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Jonathan Waldorf, 11, who was missing the sixth grade that day to attend the match, found the action on the V.I.P. monitors fascinating, including the tense caesurae between moves.
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Nicaraguan officials received the Drollingers as dignitaries, ushering them directly from the gate to a V.I.P. lounge, where they were served coffee and their passports were taken to be stamped.
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Bookers for cable and Sunday news shows follow his every word and frequently arrange for him to call in to their programs, a V.I.P. status that generates even more attention.
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The renowned Senegalese chef Pierre Thiam will offer visitors to the V.I.P. tent an eight-course dinner, while other cooks share secrets of their signature dishes during interactive cooking lessons.
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The new casinos have helped to lure some high rollers, known as V.I.P. gamblers, from mainland China to the Philippines, increasing total gambling revenue to nearly $3 billion last year.
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His name has appeared on the facades of New York's buildings, at the top of its V.I.P. lists and in the gossip pages whose stewards he had on speed dial.
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He joined his family in the V.I.P. box, as both the crowd and every television camera cut from Mr. Cruz just as he was delivering the crescendo to his remarks.
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He checks in at the V.I.P. desk, eats alone at the resort's sushi restaurant, makes snack runs to the gift shop and gambles at the high-stakes video poker machines.
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Liliane grew up with servants and tutors, a flow of V.I.P.'s through her spacious apartment on the Left Bank, Rolls-Royces and a sumptuous home overlooking the Brittany coast.
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"Who really cares what season it is when they shop?" said the designer Olivier Theyskens, who was among the 100 guests who stopped by the V.I.P. opening on Tuesday night.
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If you are using the Mail app that came with the iPhone, one way to isolate mail from specific people is to add them to the program's V.I.P. mailbox list.
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Earlier this spring, they started a $39.99 membership program that includes T-shirts, message boards and other V.I.P. goodies, and will publish an "autobiographical self-help book" later this year.
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So he kept moving on that recent Sunday morning, doling out bilingual small talk around the V.I.P. lounge of Reggiana's stadium before a recent game against Modena, a nearby rival.
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The club regularly hands out free tickets to local children, and it has refitted all of its V.I.P. areas; some do not close until the small hours of the morning.
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As President Trump delivered his inaugural address in 2017, a slight woman with feathered gray hair sat listening, bundled in a hooded white parka in a fenced-off V.I.P. section.
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In Washington, Mr. Bannon kept a residence at the so-called Breitbart Embassy, a Capitol Hill townhouse controlled by the site, where he courted candidates and threw V.I.P.-filled soirees.
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I focus on seat visitations, better known as "Roaming the Dome" with my disabled, special needs kids, birthday celebrators, and the elderly, or what I like to call, my V.I.P. Fans.
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One bullet struck a 34-year-old man in the chest, Chief Boyce said, and a 26-year-old woman who was in the V.I.P. area was hit in the leg.
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One night at the compound where my 500-person V.I.P. delegation was staying in Arafat, I was working when the men suddenly started kneeling in a large, air-conditioned, carpeted room.
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It's been a process of consolidation, as we started to work with a V.I.P. clientele, stylists and those who have relatives working at Hermès to receive a steady supply of bags.
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His new post came with a more formal dress code and led to a V.I.P. discount at Hugo Boss, where a salesman initiated him into the art of mixing and matching.
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Giorgio Armani Beauty will open a spa at Bergdorf Goodman on Thursday with a full menu of services including classic European facials and V.I.P. red-carpet prep featuring Crema Nera products.
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The show was high camp, like most of her major acting gigs: as Vallery Irons in the action-comedy sitcom V.I.P., as the titular character in the universally panned Barb Wire.
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It smells different down there, an aroma something like men's cologne, and we learn that a special scent is pumped into the V.I.P. sections of the arena via the air ducts.
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For example, at 17A, the clue is "GARFIELD + U = Beach V.I.P." GARFIELD is the United States president James A. Garfield, and Mr. Haight has added the letter U to the mix.
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Since the early 2000s, it has regularly invited its V.I.P. owners to immerse themselves in the world of aviation, a field that the brand has been linked with for a century.
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The Sikorsky S-763B helicopter that was carrying Mr. Bryant is a model widely used for executive and V.I.P. passenger transportation, for search-and-rescue work and as an air ambulance.
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But Wilson told Byrne that he himself had access to only three tickets, which belonged to him, his wife and his brother; the rest were now controlled by his V.I.P. guest.
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The first Amber Lounge event, in 21980 in Monaco, had a private performance by Maxi Jazz of Faithless and a V.I.P. guest list that included models, sports stars, musicians and royalty.
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The post-audience greetings in the section are something akin to a V.I.P. rope line, and a way for visiting dignitaries to get to meet the pope without a formal audience.
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One young woman suffering nonepileptic seizures became a Sports Maker — someone responsible for organizing and leading sports in his or her community — and was presented with V.I.P. tickets to the Olympics.
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In a V.I.P. area, near the luxury suites, Peter Serra, 11, of New York State, took a nap while his father watched the race on a television above his sleeping son.
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"It's considered V.I.P., considered safer, faster and therefore more expensive," said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, an expert on border issues and a fellow at the Wilson Center, a research institute in Washington.
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Vneshprombank is what the Russian news media refers to as a V.I.P. bank, holding assets for key state institutions, along with the personal accounts of some of the country's most prominent citizens.
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The Edmonton Oilers captain hit up XS Nightclub in the Encore hours after beating the Vegas Golden Knights in an overtime thriller ... and got the V.I.P. treatment with a massive welcoming party.
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The Navy convened one in 2001 after the submarine Greeneville, on a V.I.P. cruise, surfaced abruptly off Honolulu, sinking a Japanese fishing vessel in the process and killing several of its crew.
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Matthew Thirlwall, 60, a geology professor living outside London, spent $898 plus fees for a V.I.P. ticket that comes with the "culinary experience bundle," on top of airfare and a camping pass.
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On the other hand, wherever he parked in Atlanta, a young man would run out and say something complimentary about the car before slotting it in the V.I.P. section right out front.
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Platini, the suspended president of UEFA, the governing body overseeing European soccer, is technically allowed to attend matches, but only as a paying customer and not in any sort of V.I.P. area.
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The animal hospital where Agatha got her vaccinations has its own chandeliered lobby, cafe with doggy treats and V.I.P. rooms where humans can sleep over should their hospitalized pets prefer the company.
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" He added: "This is the kind of court I like because the crowds are close on all sides — there's not these massive V.I.P. boxes where you have half the crowd sitting there.
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The now-infamous organizers of the Fyre Festival, which was marketed as a once-in-a-lifetime luxury experience featuring rock bands, celebrity chefs and V.I.P. accommodations, are giving it another go.
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The report of Mr. Wynn's misconduct reminds me, a casino worker, of every time a manager stepped across the line or a V.I.P. guest's behavior was excused because of his financial status.
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Though the Global Citizen Festival, which featured Janet Jackson, the rapper Cardi B and others last year, offers 80 percent of its tickets free, it charged admission for V.I.P. and other access.
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This exotic kitty with two different colored eyes, and a furry face similarly split between two different colors, belongs to a rare, V.I.P. group of pussycats who may (or may not …) be chimeras.
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When first-time shoppers choose clothing and check out, the site gives them a pricing choice that highlights the discounted V.I.P. membership offer in black and red — while displaying the regular, non-V.
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He made his entrance about 15 minutes after I did, posed for pictures with his trophy and went on his way to one of the V.I.P. tables in the front of the hall.
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In Baghdad, I saw photographs taken that night showing the blocked-out bricks of cash on the scanning machine and the angry Qataris standing in the V.I.P. lounge, surrounded by black duffel bags.
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"They must be sisters," said John Gavras, a senior associate for the LiRo Group, a construction management firm, who was watching the show with his two adult daughters in an elevated V.I.P. section.
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But as in Titian's 1545 masterpiece "The Descent of the Holy Ghost," Ms. Beckham's luminous celebrity cast its glow both at Sotheby's galleries during a V.I.P. preview and the intimate dinner that followed.
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During the tour it became apparent that rather than traveling on the tour bus plastered with his likeness, he was in fact flying between destinations on a Royal Australian Air Force V.I.P. jet.
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Chantilly offers a range of ticket options ranging from the very simple to V.I.P., but as a smaller venue, it is likely luxury seating will be sold out in advance of the race.
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"When I woke up in the hospital and I had so many people around me, so many homies, it felt like I was in V.I.P. or some s—," he says with a laugh.
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And Leo Xu Projects, a Shanghai gallery, reported that it had sold eight works by the Chinese artist Cui Jie for between $7,700 and $28,20143 in the first 30 minutes of the V.I.P. preview.
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CreditCreditIllustration by Francesco Francavilla The V.I.P. terminal of Baghdad International Airport is a clean and quiet place, about a quarter-mile removed from the noise and squalor of the main arrivals-and-departures hall.
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Sometimes we see him as the employees would have seen him, as the casually dressed V.I.P. with the many suitcases who jokes with bellhops, chats with valets and gives out tips along with handshakes.
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One of those he met, during an opening night party for V.I.P. guests, was Yasir Al-Rumayyan, an aide to the crown prince and the managing director of the kingdom's vast Public Investment Fund.
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That morning, Mr. Linfesty said, he got an email saying that he had been selected for V.I.P. status, which meant that he would get to meet the president and have access to premier seating.
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Guests receive a three-night stay at the Animal Kingdom Lodge with views of the savanna, a V.I.P. visit to Pandora including a private guide, and a three-day ticket to all Disney parks.
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Uses: Originally developed to ferry people and cargo to offshore oil platforms, S-21991 helicopters are now widely used for executive and V.I.P. passenger transportation, for search-and-rescue work and as air ambulances.
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The inaugural Fyre Festival, founded by the rapper Ja-Rule, above, and the tech entrepreneur Billy McFarland, was set to feature performances from chart-topping artists, "first-class culinary experiences" and a V.I.P. crowd.
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The rapper Ja Rule and his business partner, the 25-year-old technology entrepreneur Billy McFarland, were behind the festival, and attendees were promised music, catered meals and V.I.P. accommodations in a beach paradise.
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On the same day his departure was announced, Mr. O'Reilly, on vacation in Italy with his family, scored tickets to a V.I.P. area in St. Peter's Square and got a handshake with the pope.
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In one essay, the couple boards an emergency Concorde flight to London because J. has been asked to help save the life of an unknown V.I.P. who had a heart attack in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Lamar Odom took up Kobe Bryant on his offer Wednesday night and was his special V.I.P. guest at the Lakers game -- his first time back at Staples Center since his overdose back in October.
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The protest follows another made by the theatrical group "BP or not BP" on Tuesday evening during a V.I.P. reception for "Sunken Cities," which displays artifacts from two lost Egyptian cities buried under the sea.
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SYDNEY, Australia — The authorities in China have detained 18 employees from an Australian company, Crown Resorts, including the vice president of its V.I.P. international operations, in a crackdown on the promotion of gambling in China.
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In 2000, he charged fifteen dollars for a regular tour and seventy dollars for a V.I.P. version, which included a visit to the underground parking garage where he shot the "Sexy MF" video, in 1992.
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As a citizen of the world (except for Italy), I would have preferred that the flight brave the storm so that I could relax in Heathrow's Citizens of the World (Except for Italy) V.I.P. Lounge.
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The museum's tours — which cost $38.50 or $100 for a V.I.P. pass — promise a glimpse into Prince's private working environment, as well as goodies from Prince's personal archives like wardrobes, musical instruments and even motorcycles.
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The private-services, or V.I.P., division of Smile Pharmaceuticals did not officially exist, and its unofficial existence was known only to a very small group, which did not include Dr. R. K. Smile's loyal wife.
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Being L.A., the screening, paid for by Kevin Lin, a co-founder of the streaming website Twitch, was V.I.P. heavy: Hollywood insiders, company founders and even the Olympic figure skating siblings Alex and Maia Shibutani.
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Mr. Pence and Ms. Kim sat just feet apart in a V.I.P. box at the opening ceremony but they did not acknowledge one another, their frosty attitudes symbolic of the hostile relations between their countries.
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There's gold in them hills for the gangsters and pornographers that populate Times Square, and perhaps some measure of celebrity, too, given the star treatment Linda Lovelace receives as she ascends to the V.I.P. section.
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To find it, tap the Edit button on the upper-right corner of the Mailboxes screen and tap the button next to V.I.P. to make it visible in the list, then tap the Done button.
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"The practice of allowing a client to take merchandise home prior to making a purchase has long been a tradition in the jewelry industry, but it's most often reserved for V.I.P. clientele," Ms. LaBudde said.
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And every summer until we were well into our teens my brother and I attended a local day camp, where we enjoyed V.I.P. status thanks to the fact that the director was our longtime babysitter.
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Big-league collectors such Ronald Lauder of the United States and Mimi Dusselier of Belgium were at the V.I.P. preview, which was probably a reassuring sign for the 14 new exhibitors reinvigorating Tefaf's Modern section.
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THANX GOD I'M A V.I.P. – With fabulous finds from Alaïa, Guy Laroche, Leonard, Givenchy, and much, much more, Thanx God feels more like a contemporary boutique but has an incredible selection of vintage threads and accessories.
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"These are couples that are looking for very curated, luxury brands and they're looking for V.I.P. service, which is something that traditionally, people turned to Barneys for," said Shan-Lyn Ma, the chief executive of Zola.
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Irving Azoff, the classic-rock kingpin, wasn't among the V.I.P.s—he had bolted after the opening night of the first weekend, apparently irritated by the tardy arrival of a golf cart to the V.I.P. parking area.
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While Alexander Wang frolicked about with his long Azn mane swaying side-to-side, A$AP Rocky lit up a blunt for the mob from Canndescent, who hosted a V.I.P. cannabar of its portable pre-rolls.
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HONG KONG — Just two hours into the V.I.P. preview of the sixth edition of Art Basel Hong Kong on Tuesday, it became clear why the center of gravity in the art world is shifting toward Asia.
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But the White House confirmed that a small section of the area in front of the Lincoln Memorial will be reserved for V.I.P. guests, including members of the military, as well as their friends and family.
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A former Monaco policeman has told the investigators that as many as 25 law enforcement officials obtained pairs of free V.I.P. season passes valued at about $16,000 a pair, according to a transcript of his account.
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The reward for those who persevere is a personalized, V.I.P. experience: After a tour of the state-of-the-art production facilities, we tasted the winery's offerings with the guidance of a Chandon winemaker, Kaushal Khairnar.
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Think on that for a moment: Sun-seekers and parkgoers are to be displaced, on a July weekend, by an event offering V.I.P. access to a patch of grass in New York City's storied Central Park.
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V.I.P.'s attending the first two hours of the fair were offered plastic flutes filled with sparkling wine, as well as trays of chicken skewers and sliders, before the snack bar started charging the general public.
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At a V.I.P. table were the biggest names Mr. Dauer could muster: the actor-turned-polemicist James Woods; former Senator Norman Coleman; and Bruce McNall, the former Los Angeles Kings owner who served time for fraud.
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At the debate itself, Mr. Trump's campaign tried to place a group of the women in seats in his V.I.P. box, right next to Mr. Clinton and in Hillary Clinton's line of sight from the stage.
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The unusual private party drew bewildered stares from several of the bar's other patrons, as they passed the velvet rope and small sign — "35-year reunion of ex-Iran hostages" — that announced a very specific V.I.P. area.
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She sparked engagement rumors earlier this month after she was seen wearing a large ring that is estimated to be worth over $25,000 on her right hand while in the V.I.P. box during France's game against Croatia.
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The elder Pitsiladis later regaled his son with exotic stories: serving as an extra in the apocalyptic 230 movie "On the Beach," starring Gregory Peck; talking his way into the V.I.P. stand at the 22 Melbourne Olympics.
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And though seats are scarce, you can still probably nab a V.I.P. ticket ($403) for the great enduring leading lady of the American musical, Barbara Cook, who will be performing at Feinstein's/240 Below on June 2849.
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Presented in two parts with a running time of more than seven hours, not including four intermissions, a V.I.P. dinner at Orso and an after-party, the day began at noon and was still going at midnight.
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It is a magnet for about 75,000 visitors, including thousands of art collectors from across the globe who land their private jets at Maastricht Aachen Airport to attend the V.I.P. openings and spend millions at the fair.
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One fan who paid more than $200 to attend "Ryan's pinball lair experience" at a concert, a form of V.I.P. package, told The Guardian that she had felt "physically sick" after reading the allegations in The Times.
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The Kittsona staff greeted her like a V.I.P. Last year, the store's owners agreed to outfit Ms. Delzer free of charge after she asked them to sponsor her in exchange for her tagging Kittsona on social media.
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Inbox To the Sports Editor: Re "Inside the Royal Box at Wimbledon: Astronauts and V.I.P. Strawberries," July 16: I read in this article that only aristocrats, stars and royals are invited to sit in this hallowed place.
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An hour into the V.I.P. preview, Acquavella Galleries of New York, for example, had sold a five-foot-high Basquiat painting, "Three Delegates," from 1982, which shows three masklike faces against an abstracted background, for $18 million.
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But attendance to the fair's V.I.P preview on Wednesday — where major sales happen early, and generally set the tone for the week — was lower compared to previous years, and the parties, too, were at times eerily subdued.
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For Cuoco's second look — a form-fitting white lace Tadashi Shoji jumpsuit with Louise et Cie shoes — Symonds just took out the bun and sprayed Cuoco's roots with V.I.P. powder spray to create a backcombed look and texture.
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A year after Mr. Castro's letter, the headline "Yankee Tourist Now a V.I.P. in Cuba" ran in The Times along with a photograph issued by the Cuban government showing a bikini-clad model posing seductively on Varadero Beach.
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As for the V.I.P. elevator — it is really a freight elevator that doubles as a way in for "people who're famous or think they're famous," Jeffery R. Sears, Pirch's chief executive, said as he walked through the store.
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They assigned tables (momentous in Manhattan), communicated with their chefs, turned away the less fortunate (or less famous), dispensed perks of food and wine, and determined who was a V.I.P. and who was like the rest of us.
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V.I.P.'s have spent time on the island, but often against their will, in prisons — among them, the anarchist Emma Goldman and William Tweed, better known as Boss Tweed, said Judith Berdy, president of the island's historical society.
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WASHINGTON — A Ukrainian-Russian developer who wanted access to President Trump's inauguration filed a lawsuit on Tuesday saying he was bilked out of the $200,000 he paid for what he thought would be V.I.P. tickets to the event.
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It was a party for Post Malone, the face-tattooed folk rapper, who was slumped on an elevated couch in a V.I.P. area, surrounded by large security personnel and a tiered cake of women in body-con dresses.
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They plan to take it on a tour to several V.I.P. events this fall where they believe they'll find a client who will "fall in love with it" and write them a big check to take it home.
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On Monday, the prosecutors served a subpoena on the inaugural committee, demanding it turn over records detailing its finances, including all donations and expenditures, as well as perks like photo opportunities and V.I.P. receptions offered to major donors.
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Or Town and Country's roundup of gifts for "the impossible-to-shop-for person on your list," featuring a hot-air balloon over Mount Everest ($5,950,000 per person) and V.I.P. tours of Disney World (from $425 per hour).
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Americans also like privileges like priority lines and V.I.P. access, Mr. Spiehler said, which accounts for the popularity of his company's "Pristine Sistine" tour of the Sistine Chapel, early in the morning before it opens to the general public.
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He pointed to the cushioned V.I.P. seats in front, which cost $1,599 for the three nights of the festival and were black, so that the artists couldn't tell from the stage, once it got dark, if they were empty.
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"We're thinking maybe we can make a special V.I.P. table for them, and they can come, and it will be always open for them," he said on Saturday night as servers shuttled thin-crust pies around the dining room.
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He was there as a guest of Microsoft, wearing shorts and a red-and-white New England Patriots polo shirt and chatting with Robert Kraft, the Patriots' owner and a Trump friend, at a V.I.P. reception before the game.
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For years, the "lap band" was a popular procedure—it was marketed with a billboard and radio campaign, "1-800-Get-Thin," as well as a "Lap-Band V.I.P." promotion—but it has proved to be the least effective.
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Depending on the size of their gift, donors are also entitled to several V.I.P. tickets to an inaugural ball (there will be two, hosted on two floors of the convention center here), the inaugural parade and the swearing-in.
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Many of the V.I.P. dogs of Hollywood are celebrated on Instagram and Twitter too, of course, and GoCompare Pet Insurance recently put out a list of the Top 25 most popular dog breeds of the stars and shared it with PEOPLE.
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The Bottom line: If you want V.I.P. treatment on your next trip and savings to boot, and are planning to pay at least $300 a night for a hotel room anyway, it can make sense to talk to an agent.
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But the extreme wealth of the local population may require a change in strategy; at previous events in the country, Qataris, like citizens in other wealthy Gulf States, have shown a preference for V.I.P. sections over cheaper tickets amid the masses.
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Ms. Duggal wanted a reminder of how much she had raised for President Obama and the Democrats (the answer: $679,650) and whether it qualified her for the premium package of hotel rooms and V.I.P. invitations at the party's convention in Philadelphia.
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He declined to comment on the controversy that erupted at the previous debate, in St. Louis, when Mr. Trump tried to bring three women who had accused Hillary Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, of sexual misconduct, into the V.I.P. box.
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Not everyone got what they thought they were paying for: Pavel Fuks, a Ukrainian-Russian developer, filed a lawsuit saying he was bilked out of the $200,000 he paid for what he thought would be V.I.P. tickets to the inauguration.
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Despite South Korean hopes that Ms. Kim and Mr. Pence would use the Games as an opportunity for their own diplomacy, the two ignored each other in Mr. Moon's V.I.P. box at the ceremony, where they sat just feet apart.
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Not to be outdone, Lenox Hill Hospital in New York recently hired a veteran of Louis Vuitton and Nordstrom, Joe Leggio, to create an atmosphere that would remind V.I.P. patients of visiting a luxury boutique or hotel, not a hospital.
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This was the first world championship match in New York since 1995, and organizers hoped to emulate the luxury boxes at baseball or basketball games, with a V.I.P. lounge where drinks were free and tickets cost up to $1,200 a day.
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And the concert business has progressed to a scale and a level of sophistication that would be unrecognizable — and probably boycotted — in 1967, with V.I.P. ticket packages, corporate sponsorship and smartphone apps now a part of every major festival operation.
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Stakes are high both for the players, who will share a prize of about $1.1 million, and for the sport's organizing bodies, which outfitted the 100,000-square-foot hall with a spacious V.I.P. lounge, where daily entry costs up to $1,200.
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A spokesman insisted that the meeting was not a surprise, but one of Pompeo's four, Ambassador David Satterfield, had to dash back across the rugs of the V.I.P. terminal and into the closed chamber where tea was already being poured.
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The New York Times reported in March 2018 on Broidy's somewhat sketchy ties: Mr. Broidy offered tickets to V.I.P. inauguration events, including a candlelight dinner attended by Mr. Trump, to a Congolese strongman accused of funding a lavish lifestyle with public resources.
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The Chase Experiences portal, which is available only to people with certain cards (like the Chase Sapphire Reserve), currently offers access to the 2020 Sundance Film Festival with a V.I.P. package that includes reserved seating at screenings and tickets to private cast parties.
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One plan for the World Cup is to flip the usual allotment and make a number of Category 1 and V.I.P. seats — the most expensive tickets available for general sale — exclusive to Qataris, according to an official briefed on the ticketing strategy.
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As children donned costumes for Halloween, art collectors, furniture dealers and philanthropists made their way to the Park Avenue Armory in New York, where the European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) held a V.I.P. preview hosted by the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering.
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"The security zone is necessary to protect the V.I.P. and accompanying official party, the public and the surrounding waterway from terrorist acts, sabotage or other subversive acts, accidents or other causes of a similar nature," the Coast Guard said in a statement.
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Mr. Normandin said his conviction in Dirty Lemon's store was so strong that he had already made plans to open another one in New York and two more in other cities, all featuring a separate V.I.P. lounge with a bar and special events.
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"I feel like we're cramming for a test as June gets closer," said Mr. Kors, who, with Mr. Le Pere gave $1.5 million to the Roundabout Theater for its development fund and in 2016 had the V.I.P. room there named in their honor.
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Appearing freshly spray-tanned as he kicked back on Friday in the V.I.P. area of the National Portrait Gallery, where The Hill hosted a reception, he said he was exempt from the president's boycott because he did not work in the West Wing.
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But some well-off fans, eager to flaunt their wealth, occasionally offer gifts worth thousands of dollars or more for V.I.P. status in Mr. Li's chat room, which earns them shout-outs from Mr. Li and prominent display of their names during broadcasts.
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General Raziq had reduced his appearances at the compound in recent months and hunkered deeper into his own palace, partially because he barely missed an attack last year by a Taliban bomber who killed and injured a room full of V.I.P.'s.
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And a few, perhaps like many people offered the choice, see it as a chance to enjoy an all-expenses-paid V.I.P. vacation, for which FIFA also provides a $150 per diem (in the past, it was $500, and $250 for one companion).
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Pamela Cohen, head of V.I.P. relations and sponsorships at Art Miami, which runs seven fairs in Miami and New York, said her group's platinum packages cost $5,000 a ticket and give buyers access to private receptions and conversations with well-known artists.
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Uncle Daddy (Dean Norris of "Breaking Bad") not only celebrates New Year's Eve with a boy toy in a leather thong and virtual-reality goggles, he also beats down the strip club manager because the Apalachicola oysters in the V.I.P. area have turned.
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According to "The Good Spy," a 2014 biography of Robert Ames, the C.I.A. station chief in Beirut at the time, Mr. Sadr's entourage was seen in the V.I.P. departure lounge of Tripoli's airport, roughed up by Mr. Qaddafi's men and thrown into a car.
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The longtime rivals were kicking it Monday night at Ace of Diamonds in L.A. -- and they were all smiles in the V.I.P. 50 made it rain, and Game grabbed the mic to let everyone know the rap giants are on to some new s***.
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WASHINGTON — They stood not 10 feet apart in a V.I.P. box: the 58-year-old vice president of the United States and the 30-year-old sister of North Korea's reclusive dictator, representatives of two countries locked in a stubborn, ever more perilous nuclear standoff.
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Two weeks before the festival, the approximately 4,000 people who had purchased basic passes (for $1,550 each) or V.I.P. passes ($4,000) had been informed that they could be among 100 diners admitted to a secluded mountain meadow taping of "Top Chef," the Bravo reality show.
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Every fall, the V.I.P. treatment is granted to about 625 randomly selected New York actors (and — hi, there — former actors), who are in good standing with the union, to serve on the 2500-member nominating committee (nom comm) for the annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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On a given workday, the staff might be preparing for a Greek wedding, a Japanese Embassy function, a Middle Eastern Sabbath dinner, an Italian feast, a Nordic baby shower, along with a board-of-directors power breakfast and a U.S. Open V.I.P. tailgate picnic.
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Additionally, she pursued a career in acting, starring in series such as Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. In that time, the actress went on to fall in love with several men over the years, most notably to rockstars Tommy Lee (1995) and Kid Rock (2006).
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The project will be open to the public (admission details are to be determined), but the luxury travel company Black Tomato is offering V.I.P. access to it that begins with a bird's-eye view of the installation via a private helicopter transfer from Milan to Lake Iseo.
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But the player from Brooklyn never got his chance at the N.B.A. Now Mr. Roberts, 29, was training for a different sport — Fightball, a venture that could be described as street basketball waged in a nightclub, complete with a D.J., a bar and a V.I.P. lounge.
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Donors who raise $1.25 million for the party — or who give $467,000 — are entitled to priority booking in a top hotel, nightly access to V.I.P. lounges and an "exclusive roundtable and campaign briefing with high-level Democratic officials," according to a promotional brochure obtained by The Times.
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Wearing a gingham shirt and pressed slacks, and with a drowsy, contented look on his face, the former speaker with a well-documented taste for merlot exited a V.I.P. room, offered and accepted back slaps from the guys and hugs from the ladies, then stepped outside.
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The only interesting thing about Studio 54 I had read is that it [was] so difficult to get in, so I said, "Maybe I should try the V.I.P." I went with my driver and there was a huge line at the entry when we got there.
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It turns out that there are three Barclays Center entrances: the democratic one, for fans with normal tickets; the Calvin Klein V.I.P. one, for fans with better-than-normal tickets; and the supersecret one around the back, for players, executives, talent, higher-class V.I.P.s and us.
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One New York provider, Sollis Health, offers family memberships for about $8,000 a year, with facilities — basically, V.I.P. emergency rooms — on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (where a Chuck Close original hangs in the lobby), TriBeCa and, in summer, a house call service in the Hamptons.
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First, the physical: SummerStage's main venue has undergone a $5.5 million renovation, with a new stage, canopy, new LED screens, sound system, lighting and improvements away from the stage for both general audience members (raised bleacher seating) and those in the V.I.P. area (a new balcony).
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What started as an attempt to attract to Florence the most significant voices of the fashion world for a weekend of eating, drinking and clothing has evolved into something more akin to a full-fledged music festival, with weekend ticket sales, V.I.P. packages and multiple venues.
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Instead of working the pole and the V.I.P. rooms, she and Destiny — along with their colleagues, Mercedes (Keke Palmer) and Annabelle (Lili Reinhart) — scour the city's bars for men of means who can be lured back to the strip club and parted from their credit cards.
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Berrada and his team tried to tweak it, taking ideas from Formula One — where a V.I.P. tour of the paddock, as the drivers and cars are getting ready for the race, is a tradition — and from concerts, where backstage access is sold as an additional benefit.
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But that happened last week when writer Sarah Lyall penned a piece about her hapless but high-end adventure hobnobbing with the fans' 1 percent: with a chauffeured-ride to the arena, a tour past the locker room, phenomenal seats, a V.I.P. dinner spread and more.
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Then head up to the Design District's Paradise Plaza for the latest jab at the art scene by the Brooklyn artist Eric Doeringer, who first grabbed attention in Miami by creating "bootleg" Art Basel V.I.P. cards (which let more than a few plebeians cross the velvet ropes).
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Mr. Walters not only advertises his Oscar party, now in its 21982th year, as the longest-running one in town, but also the most accessible: to civilian interlopers willing to spend $20043,22004 for a seat at the table and as much as $2100,225 for a V.I.P. table package.
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Whatever, it was of some interest, at the fair's V.I.P. preview, to watch the 1 percent audience that Frieze is custom-designed for, lining up with coffee cups and Champagne flutes and waiting for quite a while to take a look and maybe try to figure it out.
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Curated for the fifth year by Gianni Jetzer of the Hirshhorn Museum, Unlimited offered a number of attention-getting pieces at the V.I.P. opening, including Hans Op de Beeck's eerily monochromatic "The Collector's House" and Davide Balula's "Mimed Sculptures," featuring performers in white uniforms and hot-pink gloves.
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The dolls and dandies attending the Jazz Age Lawn Party simultaneously express a passion for arcana and a thirst for making the scene as they lunch on the lawn (plucking grapes, scooping quinoa, picking at Caligulan spreads of Carr's crackers) or else cocktail like tycoons in $5,000 V.I.P. tents.
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The Baccarat Hotel New York, in Midtown Manhattan, offers the "Premiere U.S. Open Package"; it includes two nights of accommodations, breakfast, two courtside seats to a match, V.I.P. entrance to the tennis center, access to a hospitality suite at the tennis center and round-trip transportation to the center.
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But when the co-chairman of the commission, Mr. Fahrenkopf, a former Republican National Committee chairman, got word that the campaign was going to try to put the women in the Trump V.I.P. box just as the last of the audience members were taking their seats, he objected.
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On the final evening of Desert Trip, a classic-rock extravaganza Paul Tollett staged on two weekends last October, the impresario was sitting in the Who's friends-and-family area, an acre-size V.I.P. tent on the grounds of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, near Indio, California.
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Those tickets have then been distributed for free to Asian-American youth and community groups, friends and the occasional V.I.P. "When's the last time you've seen so many Asians in a theater?" said Tim Lim, a 33-year-old political consultant, following a screening in Washington on Monday.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — At first, the sports book in northern New Jersey appeared to have everything ready when sports betting became legal in the state: 2000 high-definition TVs, a fully stocked bar, a revamped menu, a plush V.I.P. section and 20 tellers spread out in a cavernous room.
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Jeff Berk, a founder of Privé Porter, said that his company maintains a stock of the newest Birkins thanks to close ties with a global network of Hermès V.I.P. customers, the big spenders with deep relationships with salespeople who reportedly offer Birkins as soon as they hit the stockroom.
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Visitors at the V.I.P. opening tonight had the option to participate to partake in one-on-one sessions with Melgaard's own therapist, and on Tuesday night the public was invited to rifle through racks of pieces from Melgaard's extensive personal wardrobe and take home whatever they'd like for free.
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It is for a broad community of people that you must write, not the handful of fellow experts you seek to impress with high-flown jargon, the intellectual rival you want to put down with a devastating aside or the V.I.P. you aim to flatter with an oleaginous adjective.
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"Airlines and hotels have issued a lot of these currencies and want to find creative ways to get them off their books," Mr. Rowan of UpgradedPoints said, noting that travel companies can leverage the sponsorships they have with sports teams and stars to offer V.I.P. access to loyalty members.
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DAVOS, Switzerland — The Davos man who attends the World Economic Forum here each year is a member of the global elite — say, a banker or a politician — whose status is reinforced by an exclusive white badge that gives him access to V.I.P. lounges away from the masses at this alpine resort.
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Along with the usual supporters in Trump gear who showed up to listen to music played at a rib-cage-rattling volume, colorful local characters turned out to the rally: The cast of the popular reality TV show "Duck Dynasty" was seated in the V.I.P. section near Mr. Rispone's family.
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To counter the belief that virtual reality is restricting and encourages the isolation of its users, the system allows friends from around the world to plug in and meet in the virtual room of the V.I.P. suite at the track, as if they are all present, seeing their respective avatars.
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But Louis Farrakhan, the 84-year-old head of the Nation of Islam, did attend the service, and was seated in a prominent position, in a V.I.P. section near the front of the church, facing the crowd and just three seats over from Mr. Clinton, whom he has harshly criticized.
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It was 107 degrees in Phoenix, and outside the downtown convention center paramedics with IV bags balanced on their shoulders were tending to rallygoers who had succumbed to the heat; an elderly woman in a Hawaiian shirt had toppled out of the V.I.P. line and was vomiting on the pavement.
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That laser-focused quality was particularly true on Tuesday, V.I.P. opening day at the fair, Art Basel 2016, when even boldfaced names were willing to wait in a long line in the rain to be first to sample the wares of more than 280 international dealers in the sprawling exhibition hall on Messeplatz.
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From discreet mezzanine salons that are like V.I.P. skyboxes furnished with Louis XVI armchairs, a high-end client of Cartier will now be able, while weighing the purchase of costly baubles, to peer down discreetly at the tourists milling about the main sales floor in search of something, anything, they may possibly afford.
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According to the lawsuit, Troy Ave had been scheduled to appear onstage as a guest of T. I. and entered Irving Plaza through the V.I.P. artist entrance, where security "did not search (either by pat down, wand, metal detector nor any other type of security device)" the rapper or any of his associates.
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At a refueling stop in Cape Verde on his way home from an exhausting visit across Africa, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson walked through howling winds late Monday night toward the airport's V.I.P. terminal, where he pulled up a chair and started telling jokes to the reporters who had traveled with him.
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The ground floor is for the mechanical equipment; the first is shared among the I.T. infrastructure, track monitors, meeting rooms and engineers' offices; and the second holds the drivers' rooms and hospitality areas for sponsors and V.I.P. guests, who have a view of the lower part of the circuit and the pit lane.
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The real estate at day clubs is parceled out like V.I.P. areas in a nightclub; the price for a full day's rental, which includes bottle service and its corresponding "minimum spend" agreement, is based on a variety of factors, like day of the week and the location of your couch or cabana.
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Mar-a-Lago was originally built as an estate for Marjorie Merriweather Post, a socialite and the owner of the cereal giant General Foods, and, as the club itself says, it has been on "the V.I.P. list of places that established Palm Beach as a winter haven for the elite many decades ago."
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Before this person's status was made public — he was a V.I.P. attendee who purchased a $5,750 "gold" package that granted him access to backstage reception rooms where members of Congress and other high-profile figures mingled — conservatives at the conference were accusing the president's enemies of inflating the seriousness of the outbreak.
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Not quite a nightclub in the current parlance — V.I.P. tables and bottle service will not be a focus; dancing will — and more consistent than the pop-up raves known to industrial Bushwick in Brooklyn, Flash Factory aims to become a weekly destination for techno traditionalists, explicitly including tourists, that might still maintain a borough bias.
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Last December, a "Contemporary Christmas Market" with street-food cabins and an ice-curling rink was installed on the roof terrace; an upside-down garden with 30,000 live flowers was suspended in the atrium during the spring; and the circa-1957 Zoo Palast cinema, birthplace of the Berlinale, has been restored for V.I.P. premieres.
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An extraordinary backstage confrontation between Donald J. Trump's campaign and the staff of the Presidential Commission on Debates unfolded just minutes before the debate on Sunday night after Mr. Trump tried to give seats in his V.I.P. box to a group of women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of making unwanted sexual advances.
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Mr. Lewandowski and Ms. Hicks are close friends: He has visited her family in Greenwich for pick-me-up dinners and, days after Mr. Trump clinched the Republican nomination (and fired a key political aide), they took in a Hall & Oates concert with her parents in the V.I.P. tent at the Greenwich Town Party.
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Two wanted to head up to the mezzanine to see if they could get a glimpse of the Hollywood celebrities in the house — Natalie Portman, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria and Uzo Aduba were all in the V.I.P. box, hanging out with Megan Rapinoe, who was not playing because of a mild injury.
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At the fair's V.I.P. opening last Wednesday inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, one big-ticket sale came early at the Gagosian Gallery's booth as a couple dressed in shabby chic — complete with a military-style field jacket for the gentleman — snapped up a 2180 untitled abstract painting by Sam Francis for $6.5 million.
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He said she always "lit up the room" with her warmth whenever she waited her turn in the waiting room, refusing to be treated like a V.I.P. "I remember when she drove through Florida in her red pickup, campaigning during the primaries, she was adamant she wouldn't be defined by Parkinson's," Dr. Okun said.
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ANTIBES, France — The story of the Cartier Crash watch is a good one: The timepiece, Dalí-esque in form, is said to have been inspired by a Cartier Maxi Oval that was all but destroyed in a 21970s car crash fireball involving a V.I.P. client — or a Cartier director, depending on who is talking.
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Few settings seem better suited to absurdist gesture than Miami Beach, a place where humans stroll around wearing high heels and bikinis, where there is always room for another "V" before the name of a boldface guest at a V.I.P. event, and where even the trademark palm trees look like fright wigs on sticks.
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DNA believed to belong to the podcast host, Daryl Campbell, 31, who is known as Taxstone, was found on the trigger, hand grip and magazine of the 9-millimeter Kel-Tec semiautomatic handgun that was used in the shooting in the V.I.P. green room of a crowded Manhattan concert venue, a federal complaint says.
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While housekeepers once received a printed list of room assignments for the day and could organize their route, the new software systems send assignments to the housekeeper's device, typically one at a time, and in order of importance to the hotel, taking into account, for example, V.I.P. rooms, service time requests and groups coming in.
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While the sale is technically only available to V.I.P.'s today (a Reformation rep told Refinery29 the public sale won't start until tomorrow), it seems like anyone is able to purchase the discounted fare — and with prices starting at 30% off, there's bound to be a whimsical wrap-waist frock for any end-of-summer occasions.
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Named the Burled Arch Extravaganza, the package, for two, includes a two-night pre-race stay in Anchorage, round-trip airfare to Nome for the finish, three nights in Nome, a tour of Iditarod operations there, a flight to view the race from a checkpoint, V.I.P. viewing for the finish and a photo with the 2016 champion.
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Scene City 7 Photos View Slide Show ' At the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, a glossy ode to spending was in full display on Tuesday, as shoppers spent the day celebrating the grand opening of Westfield World Trade Center, and V.I.P. guests ended the night with a dinner of caprese salads and pan-seared halibut at Eataly's downtown outpost.
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He was faced with a tape of Donald Trump bragging about trying to seduce a married woman and sexually assaulting other women, and Mr. Trump's Jerry Springer-worthy pre-debate stunt of trying to get Bill Clinton's accusers to sit in his V.I.P. box, and finally, his threat to jail Hillary Clinton if he wins the presidency.
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Because it's a buffet, we eat too much, from choices that include steak, turkey, chicken, various kinds of pasta, various kinds of sushi, mini-cheeseburgers, Nathan's hot dogs, a sundae station and a genius V.I.P.-worthy Buffalo chicken wing dish wherein the chicken is white meat, the sauce does not make you feel sick and there are no bones.
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After reports the visit was going to be scrubbed, the two sides compromised by agreeing to meet at Shannon Airport — which is why, when Mr. Trump landed in this land of castles and quaint villages, he sat down with Mr. Varadkar in a V.I.P. lounge, across the hall from a bar and a duty-free shop.
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Promoted by Instagram influencers including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Emily Ratajkowski as a never-before-seen V.I.P. event, the gathering — with weekend ticket packages starting around $1,200 and topping six-figures with extras — was supposed to compete in an increasingly elaborate landscape of boutique music festivals that have sprung up in the wake of Coachella.
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Still, minutes after the gun went off for a V.I.P. preview on Wednesday morning (the fair would not open to the public for another day) collectors were already making a beeline for the Galerie Perrotin booth and Mr. Cattelan's banana, offered in a limited edition of three with one artist's proof, at a cost of $25,240 apiece.
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An ardent soccer fan, Mr. Orban helped start the foundation that owns the Pancho Arena and the team that plays there, Puskas Akademia FC. Even though his home is a one-minute walk away, he has a designated parking spot steps from the entrance and routinely uses the V.I.P. section as a salon where his closest allies can meet and show their fealty.
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The Star Tribune recently reported on the zoological park's animal ambassador program, where creatures including sloths, penguins, armadillos, parrot, tegu, turtles and tortoises, snakes, frogs and toads, geckos and skinks, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, giant millipedes, cave roaches and a variety of arachnids can join you on your big day as V.I.P. guests and educate the humans in attendance, as well.
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At Hublot's moodily chic V.I.P. lounge, with a full bar, black walls and track lighting (it looks like a SoHo nightclub from the Sade years), I catch a news conference starring Lapo Elkann, the comically sauve Fiat heir and Italia Independent eyewear designer, who arrived via private jet and Ferrari to pump his latest collaboration with Hublot, a limited-edition camo Big Bang.
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The presence of Paris Hilton, along with her sister, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, made the entire room feel like a V.I.P. lounge, an impression nudged along by the sight of actors like Adrien Brody, Jackie Cruz ("Orange Is the New Black") and Pauly Shore, who has been clubbing with Mr. Tepperberg since the early '90s ("I was their first celebrity," he recalled proudly).
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"The idea that Spike Lee is a victim because we have repeatedly asked him to not use our employee entrance and instead use a dedicated V.I.P. entrance — which is used by every other celebrity who enters The Garden — is laughable," the Knicks said in a statement on Tuesday after Lee appeared on ESPN's "First Take" television show to discuss the incident.
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In Florence to attend the Pitti Uomo men's wear trade fair, the largest in the world, he had joined an unlikely assortment of V.I.P. guests — the model and influencer Lucky Blue Smith and Tim Cook, the Apple chief executive, among them — at a Cavalli show held in the courtyard of the 14th-century Florence Charterhouse beneath a cerulean Tuscan sky.
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CreditCreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times The sports agent Tony Godsick pulled into the parking lot of the U.S. Open a little before noon last Saturday, jumped out of the Mercedes S.U.V. he had been lent for the tournament, threw a blazer over his blue-and-white striped shirt and made his way through the V.I.P. entrance of Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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LOS ANGELES — If you've felt a lingering disturbance in the internet's social order — a vague and unsettling sense that there is a raging party happening just out of view, that all the people cooler, richer and better looking than you are blowing off steam together in some V.I.P. hideaway while you waste your life on Twitter and Instagram — I have some bad news.
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The future they want to create is irreconcilable with the one represented by the police informant, and the system that sponsors him; the future Egyptian capital in the Eastern Desert, with its neatly demarcated segments of conventional authority and V.I.P. parking for those with private helicopters, is incompatible with the messy, contested Cairo from which the Hussein brothers have emerged.
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Mr. Orender singled out two of his V.I.P. experiences that did not come cheap: Berckmans Place at the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National, a premium venue within what is already one of the most strictly controlled events in sports, and the Players Club, a luxury package for the Players Championship, a golf tournament being played this week in Ponte Vedra, Fla.
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Once, at a lunch, I sat next to the woman in charge of a group of Dior's V.I.P. shoppers — customers who are treated to the Cruise show by the brand, wined, dined and massaged — and she said that the expense of bringing them to the show and showing them a good time was more than offset by the amount of shopping they did to outfit themselves for the event.
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The day will mark a remarkable transition for Dr. Yi, from pariah to V.I.P. Six years ago, officials in his home province of Hunan threatened to arrest him if he returned from the United States, where he has lived since 7003, for helping his sister-in-law escape a forced abortion at seven months, he said in an interview in Beijing this week en route to the forum in Hainan Province.
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The news conference was called after Afghan news reports and social media accounts suggested that the casualty toll was actually in the hundreds; that three hospitalized Afghan generals were among those killed by the attackers; and that the minister of defense, Abdullah Habibi, had personally signed the V.I.P. vehicle pass that allowed the attackers to enter the heavily guarded hospital complex in a car packed with explosives and weapons.
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The event can sometimes feel like its very own art bubble off the coast of the United States, and during Wednesday's V.I.P. preview of the 16th edition of this warm-weather cousin of the long-running Swiss art fair, even the revelation of the Saudi buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" took a back seat to cooing about the new floor layout, grousing about the traffic and laughing about a dispute with the local fire department that left many powerful dealers locked out of the fair's opening.
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He passes through miles of leather handbags and perfumes and whiskeys, miles of beautiful German and Turkish retail maids, and, in this dream, he is talking to them about colognes, and letting them giggle and spritz him with scents of leather and musk; he is looking through wallets, and fingering one made of ostrich leather; he is standing at the counter of a V.I.P. lounge and talking to the receptionist, a lady with sea-urchin hair, about his childhood in Delaware, charming his way into the lounge, where businessmen of all nationalities are wearing the same suit; he sits in a cream leather chair, drinks champagne, eats oysters; and there the dream fades. . . .
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