Self promotion on steroids: Eastern suburbs elite head to Europe in droves
While Sydney grapples with a cost-of-living crisis, eastern suburbs locals appear unfazed, jetting to Europe in droves and chasing the perfect Instagram photo opportunity.
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While Sydney grapples with a cost-of-living crisis, residents of the eastern suburbs seem unfazed, with a seemingly record number of wealthy locals jetting to Europe this northern summer.
And judging from the heavily curated ensembles and nauseating number of images shared to social media, many were wondering whether some of them flew 23 hours to chase the perfect photo opportunity or to actually experience the delights of Europe.
Socialite trio Deborah Symond-O’Neil, Poppy Tzaneros and Kristina Macourt even bought matching $1500 Pucci outfits for their visit to St Tropez in southeastern France.
Symond-O’Neil’s Euro summer has been extensive, with the mother of two enjoying time in Paris, Switzerland and St Tropez.
The owner of fashion store Mode Sportif has showcased a number of thoughtfully assembled looks over the past few days.
Meanwhile, former model Taryn Williams has let her 22,000 followers know exactly where she will be and when she will be there, posting her itinerary on Instagram before she jetted off.
She even alerted her followers to the fact that she had no plans at the end of the trip, perhaps not-so-subtly leaving room for a spontaneous invitation.
“OK, Europe dates a this stage: 8th-10th July Milan, 11th-18th Forte, 19-22 S Tropez, 22-24th Sainte Maxime 25-26 Paris, 27th-4th August I’m not sure,” she wrote. “Don’t require anything of me before I go.
“I’m at capacity for thinking and meetings and doing. “Everything else is an August problem now.”
Among the others lucky enough to be enjoying a continental summer includes reality TV couple Tim Robards and Anna Heinrich, whose trip began one week ago.
The Bachelor Australia pair have returned to Puglia in southeast Italy, the destination of their 2018 wedding and where they conceived their second baby, Ruby.
Also enjoying everything a European summer has to offer are TV personality Lucia Hawley; buyers agent Simon Cohen; socialites Barbara Coombes, Harriet Williams and Stephanie Conley; lawyer Bek Giles; make-up artist Max May; ballroom dancer Kym Herjavec, who is holidaying with US TV personality Carson Kressley; radio personality Michael “Wippa” Wipfli and wife Lisa; real estate agent Warren Ginsberg and model girlfriend Casey James; entrepreneur Ellie Malouf; and Real Housewives of Sydney star Victoria Montano, who consistently boasted about her “Insta husband” Timothy Odillo Maher snapping her “looks”.
Lowes heir Joshua Penn and his brood are also OS, but he has kept details of their trip under wraps.
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