Russian Billionaire Debuts His Magazine for Snobs
Back in April we reported that Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov (right) was planning to spend $150 million launching a new magazine for snobs. Now the first issue of Snob is about to go on sale with a cover price of $18, but it isn't just a gaudy homage to the oligarch lifestyle as lived by Luxist mascot Roman Abramovich and his compatriots. "A close look at both the target audience and the contents of Snob show that it doesn't promote the free-spending, bling-drenched stereotype made famous across the world by rich Russians in recent years," the London Independent notes. "While celebrating personal and financial success, it does so in a rather more restrained and worldly way." Too bad - we were kind of hoping for something a little more over-the-top.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tex Sep 15th 2008 11:27PM
Perhaps a more fitting title would be....
"DOUCHE"
jonas Sep 16th 2008 7:48AM
any idea how to get in contact with the magazine? thx
"Hotstuff" Hollie Dunaway Nov 24th 2008 4:03AM
I think the word "snob" means something different in Russia.
www.hotstuffhollie.com
Pam Sep 21st 2008 6:57AM
Magazines and people like this make me disgusted. The economy is awful, thousands of people have recently lost their jobs and there are people jetting around in private planes, polluting our environment, blinging out their phones with crystals and drinking $200 bottle of champanges.
I am always looking at ways to save money, so that I can go out and enjoy a good meal in a restaurant and other of life's pleasures that cost a little extra.
I personally love TARGET. Great for fashion and funky home stuff that looks like it cost a lot more, as well as staples.
I shop online to save money on gas, use less gas and save money period. I shop at all my favorite stores through an online website that gives me the unpublished codes at about 300 stores (including Target, The Gap, Best Buy, Old Navy,
Drugstore.com, etc) as well as giving me between 5 and 50% back in cash on my purchases. The site is http://www.fatcrumbs.com I am being good to the environment and great to my wallet.
tt-rexxx Sep 21st 2008 10:33AM
Would love to get hold of that mailing list
The Ethical Exhibitionist Sep 21st 2008 10:49AM
It's an $18 magazine called SNOB. There's nothing "restrained" or "worldly" about it. The only way to make it more ridiculously opulent would be to print it on the dried skin of poor people or something.
getwau Sep 21st 2008 11:36AM
Hey, don't knock 'em. Join 'em. Read books like "How to Become Filthy Rich on Your Current Income" at www.how-to-become-rich.com
getwau Sep 21st 2008 11:38AM
Hey, don't knock 'em. Join 'em. Read books like "How to Become Filthy Rich on Your Current Income" at www.how-to-become-rich.com
diane Sep 21st 2008 11:44AM
I don't have a problem with the magazine...it's the name that's disturbing.
WWW.WHOOKNOWS.COM
jubilow Sep 21st 2008 11:48AM
you people made me sick your always talking about how someone should help the poor, you sound just like those big movie people allways want someone else to cought up the cash but never put up any of their own, just show up looking like they shop at the goodwill trowaways.
tt-rexx Sep 21st 2008 12:12PM
Truth be told no one helps the poor then the rich.It's call a tax deduction.End of story