Designer diamonds, luxury yachts and hallucinogenic toads all feature in Kevin Kwan’s latest novel.
Author Kevin Kwan at the premiere of Crazy Rich Asians at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in 2018. It’s midnight in LA, where Kevin Kwan lives, but this is his preferred time for a phone call. “I’m a night bird,” he says. “If I was doing an interview at 8am, my brain would be foggy and not well-caffeinated . . . I swear to God I will be much better at midnight.”has his wits about him as he discusses his latest novel, Lies and Weddings.
In addition to a new focus on biracial identity and a plot with more twists than an Elsa Peretti for Tiffany corkscrew, in the latest novel Kwan skewers how the global rich roll with anthropological levels of detail about their fashion and lifestyle. Characters compete to assert their cool factor through Dolce & Gabbana couture, Wallace Chan diamonds, a futuristic 118 WallyPower yacht or even getting high by licking hallucinogenic toads.
“When I think of a scene and a character walking into a room, I always think about what they’re wearing from head to toe . . . I actually keep folders of images of clothing and outfits for every single character and every single scene,” says Kwan. Some of the observations made when the action relocates to Beverly Hills are the most acute.
Kwan says that it’s the character talking, but that there is also some truth to her observation. Pondering the meaning of eschewing a watch, he ruminates that “the latest trend that I’m seeing amongst the 0.0001 per cent is not quiet luxury. It’s no luxury, it’s anti-luxury. It’s become the ultimate flex to be completely nondescript . . . Like, ‘I don’t even have to wear cashmere.
Kwan prefers more eccentric family-run places, but he did make a point of staying in the Four Seasons Hawaii, which features in the book, because he has to “smell the air in the room to write about it well”. However, he thinks that increasingly, “all these places have the same quiet luxury look. All the art looks the same. They’re all vaguely fake Cy Twomblys, scrawls on canvases.
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