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Neiman Marcus Adds Digital 'Wow' To Christmas Book

Neiman Marcus has snuck a digital surprise into the mix of its over-the-top items in this year’s Christmas Book. Yes, there’s the reasonably predictable possibilities, like the $400,000 fantasy trip to India, the $90,000 50th anniversary Ford Mustang, or the $150,000 Arch motorcycle trip with actor Keanu Reeves. But people who download the tony retailer’s app get something special: The chance to buy the $40,000 Memomi Mirror, which it’s billing as “the world’s first interactive and social memory mirror.”

In addition to offering a 360-degree view of the outfit you’re experimenting with, it also provides a split-screen option, to make comparing several outfits easier. And the social function makes it possible to ask for others for opinions, or even post images to social networks.

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Of course, if that doesn’t appeal, there are plenty of other options in the collection, which the company describes as full of “extraordinary luxury, whimsical delight, and state of the art technology.” And in a first, this year’s “His & Hers” fantasy gift isn’t for adults, but for kids: the Ultimate Children’s Costumes in Mackenzie-Childs Trunks, for $5,000 each. 

*For $125,000, sip from the Orphan Barrel Project, which includes 24 bottles each of eight recently discovered whisky varieties, found in old rickhouses and distilleries. 

*Spend $10,000, and get a handmade couture journal, based on paintings of the recipients 20 most-treasured outfits, worked into a 60-sheet diary, hand-tooled in gold.

*Music fans can select a guitar from the Texas Trio — the Lyle Lovett, the Billy Gibbons or the Steve Miller. At $30,000 each, the package also includes VIP concert tickets for each musician.

*View the world from the “edge of space,” with a $90,000-per-person package that includes a 2016 behind-the-scenes invite to a World View test flight and tour of Biosphere 2 with World View CEO Jane Poyter. Then in 2017, take five companions up in a high-altitude balloon, experiencing 360-degree views of the earth.

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