These days I’ve been seeing Meryl Streep, or rather, I’ve been seeing her. Brand new Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, the American actress has been walking around Oviedo amid bagpipes and applause, competing in popularity with Elionor herself and her august parents.
On the screen she is huge, the best, but in person Meryl is not the prettiest in the neighborhood, nor the tallest, nor the most well-groomed and yet she manages to attract attention with her shocking presence and spirit that breaks all the molds of what someone who, like her, is 74 years old is supposed to be. The best, his idea: “At this moment in life we ??are not to deprive ourselves of anything. Whether it’s a good beer, a good kiss, a good lover; or start far away who deserves it”. This is his wealth.
The protagonist of Memories of Africa must be one of the highest paid actresses in the world, which suggests that she treasures a great fortune and this is where her greatness lies, precisely because she does not seem to have delusions of. She doesn’t know a big mansion, she doesn’t wear clothes or accessories that say look how rich I am; he has not asked Oviedo for any eccentricity like two million roses in the room or water brought directly from the Himalayas. The only luxury (which is not so much when it comes to saving time and attending to all commitments) has been traveling by private plane from New York to Asturias.
The point is that Streep would never take photos on the plane surrounded by luxury handbags like Georgina does, Cristiano Ronaldo’s, or so many other influencers (or influleches, as Anna R. Alós would say), who have little shame to brag about spending the annual budget of ten families on accessories.
Of course, the managers of the most prestigious luxury brands, which continue to be a reference for the style of women such as Grace Kelly and Jacqueline Kennedy, among others, do not deserve that their articles are the object of ostentation by classless women, that they would do anything (and when I say anyone, I mean anything) for someone to give them one of their handbags.
