‘I don’t like fake garland on the table,’ Kathy Hilton tells me, sitting beside a coat rack overflowing with red, fur-trimmed robes in her QVC ‘Holiday House.’ At home in Beverly Hills, she’s the hostess known for soirées that stretch into robe-clad, after-hours conversations. But today, she’s traded California sun for a climate more apropos of the North Pole in New York City, stepping fully into her QVC alter ego: the retailer’s resident Mrs. Claus.
Although fake garland is probably the tackiest thing Kathy can imagine on a Christmas table, she – like her impressively real-looking travel jewelry collection with Anna Zuckerman – absolutely makes room for good faux when it counts. In fact, she prefers a faux fir over the real thing.
