What’s in your pack, Kynt and Vyxsin?

by Martha Edwards on

For all of those who have been following the Amazing Race recaps, here’s something interesting. I was recently reading In Touch Magazine (shut up! I only read it on the treadmill … swear.) and they had a little article on Kynt and Vyxsin, the goth team in the race. More specifically, they took a look into their packs to see what they brought. Here’s what they found:

  • A flat iron (“My best friend in life”, say Kynt)
  • A hairdryer
  • Fake eyelashes
  • Two hot pink cowboy hats
  • Cotton candy body spray (because nothing says Gothic like cotton candy body spray … !? )
  • Over 25 CoverGirl pressed-powder compacts
  • Four pairs of his-and-her fishnet stockings (really? only four ?)
  • Silver and pink glitter
  • SPF 50 sunscreen so they can remain ghastly pale
  • A compass

Well, we may mock but their collection of belongings are obviously suiting them quite well since they’re still in the game. And doing quite well, I might add.

Prague’s Charles Bridge For Sale

by Iva Skoch on

As if Madonna is not causing enough stir with her European tour, she got herself wrapped up in another controversy.

Louis Vuitton invited her to perform at a party on the Charles Bridge before her September concert in Prague. She accepted. The controversy is not with Madonna this time, it is with the bridge. LV booked the 14th century Czech national treasure for a mere $54,000 from Sept. 6-10, just to throw a private VIP party.

It would require the city to close it to all traffic for those days. Starved for cash (and probably after a few bribes) the City of Prague actually said yes, until some historians and politicians raised a big stink about it.

In an article titled Material World, the Prague Post quoted a senator who said that the Charles Bridge is no “whore for sale” and compared renting the bridge to “holding an eating party inside St. Vitus Cathedral [the famous Gothic church inside the walls of Prague Castle].”

Enough people protested that the city actually had to call the party off, suggesting to LV that they can take the waterfront instead. Poor little VIPs. Must feel a lot like wanting a Louis Vuitton bag and settling for a Gap totebag instead.