Newer standards in luxury are being laid. Yes, even in the financial hard times! Of course, the selected few like the Sultan of Brunei (the pic above is not a recent one). The status is rarefied and so you can well imagine the ostentatious spending habits that he must be enjoying. Well, the man is in news for a haircut he took recently. Boy, now what’s big with that is what you must be wondering. Well, the simple routine thing cost him a huge $21,485.

Believe it or not but the stylish Sultan hired a private luxury cabin on a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Brunei for an appointment with his favorite barber Ken Modestu which cost £11,000, excluding the bit about hotel ad luxury gourmet food. Though regular folks can get a snip from Ken for £30 at the Dorchester hotel in Mayfair, Central London; but His Majesty did not want to take any chances with the Swine Flu bug and thought it was safer to fly his hairdresser instead.

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Besides having piled up dough, even filthy-rich apply their brains and do a little math before inking pricey deals. The case in point is Beverley Lateo (right), who shelled out $17,000 for getting a hair cut by Stuart Phillips based in London. The gesture made both of them reside in the Guinness Book of World Records. Okay, assume you are 40-years young now and spends $50 on haircut after an interval of every two months. So, roughly once you touch 100 years of your life, you would have spent nearly $18,000. And following this logic, it became a wise option for Beverley now and other prospective customers planning to visit Stuart Phillips. But who is interested to live 100 years of life…huh!

Realizing their growing visibility, CaptivateIndulge indulged in a chat with Stuart Phillips and came out with many interesting facts. Answer to the curiosity of the expensive behavior of haircut was “Attention to detail” plus clients spends entire day in the regal ambiance of this salon adorned with 23,000 Swarovski crystals.

Their clientele include people from high-end clas alomg with A-list Hollywood stars like David Hasselhoff, Jean Claude Van Dam and Kirsten Dunst and also the divas. The comfort-packed package costing £8,000 ($16,000) includes services like flights, transfers to and from London airports in a limousine, a champagne lunch or dinner, a VIP section of the salon booked out for a whole day, a master class on hair styling with Stuart Phillips and a basket of hair products (specific to each individual hair type).

Following this stands a package deal of £20,000 ($40,000) that includes aforementioned services plus a personal shopper, pick and drop from airport, two-days stay at one of London’s finest hotels, a private chef and an exclusive package of £28,000 (around $55,000) if a friend accompanies against the standard cost of £40,000 ($80,000).

Via CaptivateIndulge