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High life

In praise of pomposity

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

Gstaad

My annual end-of-year party in the Bagel was a bust. Too many people brought their friends and I ended up asking men and women to please leave both my bedroom and, especially, my bathroom. I had some very pretty young things drop in. Some even overstayed and — surprise, surprise — there were some items missing after the clean-up the next day.

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