Yes, it blinks, but is it art?

His wife, Yuvares Kangsathan, saw to it that the robotic furry fad pet was suitably represented among the pricey paintings and pots. They were in Japan on Valentine’s Day and she had to have some. He bought 16, he tells Who? magazine. 

Sant didn’t yield without a fight. “Why should I buy them – it’s so silly!” he told Yuvares. But he realised the Bt2,380-per-doll price tag was chump change compared to what he spends on Ming vases. 

They gave most of them away to friends anyway, but not before Sant tried playing with Furby. He found the voice-activated fluffball insubordinate. “It never obeys me – it’s so stubborn!” 

 

Strategic buying

Actress Sirin “Cris” Horwang makes bags of money, but when she goes shopping for a new bag, she’s still careful about how much is in the bag she’s carrying. There’s no such thing, she says, as “love at first sight and buy it!” 

If she spots a purse she likes, she won’t buy it right away. “I go home and let a week pass, and then I still want it bad, I’ll go back and buy it,” she tells the New York-based Nylon magazine, which launched its Thai edition with her on the cover. “They change the collections often anyway, so there are no hard feelings if I don’t buy some of them.” 

Nor is it necessary to stick to brand-name products, Cris says, though she admits she has a thing for designer Alexander Wang. “I really love him and I have almost every item he’s made.”

Like her designer sister Ploy, Cris recommends mix-and-match – easy for them because they’re both the same size.

“It’s fun shopping with her, but it’s not so bad going alone. The only downside is that we sometimes buy the same thing. Ouch, that hurts!” she giggles. 

It sort of undermines their system of always borrowing each other’s clothes.