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Vanity Fair Travel: The New Leader in Pomposity

April 21, 2006 at 11:30 AM | 0 Comments

The new Vanity Fair Travel section, in the May issue, opens with a listing of high-end retail that intends to escape "the homogenized high street of Prada, Gap, and Chanel." Thank God. Nothing is more oppressive than page after page of Chanel and Prada.

Apparently the antidote to the beaten retail path arrives in the form of Argentine polo shop La Martina, São Paolo's emporium of over-the-top luxury Daslu, and Chistina Yu's Hanoi Ipa-Nima handbag shop, among others.

In terms of destinations, the supplement ensnares Beijing, Moscow, Kenya (sample ranch rental just $14,000 a week!), and Baja California. Editor Victoria Mather leads with a comparison of Baja and Sienna Miller that reads as follows:

If Baja California were a person it would be Sienna Miller: boho-gone-smart, and definitely in vogue.

Baja Californians everywhere are doubtlessly overjoyed at the rechristening of a tiny speck of their peninsula as "boho-gone-smart", netting said peninsular speck a comparison to Sienna Miller in the process. All Oaxaca got was a comparison to Nicole Richie.

We kid. We know that Baja is hip, and wish we could be lunching on tortillas right now while watching the surf. We just don't want to be thinking about B-list actresses while we're there.