PAUL D’ORLÉANS
“The money thing deserves note, because the joint is dripping with it, and cash has changed the collecting game in a big way over the past 20 years.”
IT’S A CURIOUS THING, BEING A JUDGE AT A Concorso d’Eleganza, like the one at Villa d’Este. The perks are incontestably fab: a flight to Lake Como, a very nice hotel, every meal catered, drivers at your beck and call, extravagant parties, and rubbing elbows with the swells, some of whom are very interesting indeed.
We’re second-tier celebs as judges
