Dear Santa: Dylan Lauren's Holiday Give and Get List

By Amy Flurry
December 14, 2010

Our Series on What Today's Top Style Makers Plan to Give—and Hope to Get!—for the Holidays

It would be easy to attribute Dylan Lauren's Wonka-like candy emporium to another example of the whims of privilege. But in only ten years since opening Dylan's Candy Bar, a shrine to gumballs and gummies on New York's Upper East Side, Dylan Lauren, daughter of legendary American designer Ralph Lauren, has managed to turn a serious sweet tooth into a confectionary empire. With five candy store locations and plans for expansion into other cities, plus a new book,
Dylan’s Candy Bar: Unwrap Your Sweet Life, Dylan Lauren is all business when it comes to appealing to the kid in everyone.

Dylan's Candy Bar

With holidays on the horizon, the New York-based entrepreneur plans to celebrate the season with her family, who combine Hanukkah and Christmas with mom, Ricky Lauren, and Ralph Lauren's wedding anniversary. “My mom and I like to set the table with creative things and I also like to make my gifts. I love arts and crafts and candy is the perfect medium!”

(images provided by Dylan's Candy Bar)

What Dylan Lauren Plans to Give (and Hopes to Get) This Holiday Season

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Exercise Equipment

Candy Mug

Art Supplies

Mac Computer

Vintage Candy Wrapper

Gift Basket Supplies

Vintage Bunny Rabbit

Vintage Gumball Machine

Santa Fe Jewelry

Dylan's Candy Bar

Dear Santa: Dylan Lauren's Holiday Give and Get List

GIVING:

1. Vintage Candy Wrapper: “I'm the crafty one in the family. I like to decoupage frames with vintage candy wrappers.”

2. Candy Mug: “I'll give coffee from Abraco, my favorite coffee house in New York, and then put it in a cute mug for a really cute presentation.”

3. Gift Basket Supplies: "Everyone loves a cute basket filled with their favorite yummy goodies from the shop! You can find unique containers on eBay."

4. Dylan's Candy Bar: “This year I'll be giving my book to everyone I know. And they'll also get their favorite candies.”

5. Exercise Equipment: “I like to give experiential gifts, like spin classes, tennis lessons or a massage. Exercise equipment is a nice compliment.”

GETTING:

6. Vintage Gumball Machine: “I love vintage candy items, so friends and family find things on eBay like old gumball machines or icons of candy like Bazooka Joe or the Twinkie guy for me.”

7. Art Supplies: “I'm the crafty one in the family. I'm kept pretty well stocked in rainbow colored art supplies.”

8. Santa Fe Jewelry: "Santa Fe jewelry is a favorite, as are pieces by my friend, designer Nancy Liebowitz of Nathan and Moe jewelry. I love turquoise.”

9. Vintage Bunny Rabbit: At 36, Dylan Lauren's candy wrapper collection only rivals that of her penchant for rabbits. That collection, some 3000 pieces strong, includes stuffed bunnies, Trix Rabbit figurines, painted ceramic plates and more that line the walls of shelves in her house and studio.

10. Mac Computer: “I just got a Mac two years ago. Before that I had a laptop I never used because I didn't know how. I could really use a computer lesson or two.”

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