Google's Marissa Mayer Just a Dolled-Up, Social-Climbing Material Girl? Who Knew?

We've never met Google's Marissa Mayer, but we will confess to having a bit of a crush on her. We've imagined her as a Sue Decker-type: brilliant, competent, smoking. But now comes San Francisco magazine to tell us that Marissa's just a brand-collecting Sex in the City fan-girl eager to shell out $60,000 to have lunch with Oscar de la Renta (he should have paid to have lunch with her). Say it ain't so, Marissa!

Valleywag reports:

• $5 million, 38th-floor penthouse at the Four Seasons
  
• Mayer is infatuated with the color purple ... a formfitting deep-purple dress by C.D. Greene with small black mirrors ... the bedroom's violet walls -- replicated from one of her favorite cashmere sweaters -- ... announce her love of eye-poppingly bright colors and Marimekko-type patterns
  
• A social climber who paid $60,000 to win lunch with Oscar de la Renta
  
• Once dated Google cofounder Larry Page
  
• Rumored to be worth several hundred million dollars
  
• As vice president of search products and user experience, Mayer manages 150 product managers, who direct the efforts of nearly 2,000 software engineers
  
• Her pet dog, an Aibo robot named Rover
  
• She also has a Craftsman in Palo Alto
  
• She'd recently bought an array of cookbooks to study the cupcake recipes in each, created a spreadsheet for the ingredients, and then tested the recipes before writing her own
  
• She made another spreadsheet for frosting.
  
• The ceiling installation she commissioned from the famous glass artist Dale Chihuly: 400 pieces of blown glass in the shapes of sea flora and fauna.
  
• A wall-size light panel with 576 individually placed Ping-Pong balls, which Mayer made over eight weekends spent home alone, inspired by the light display she'd seen at a 2005 U2 concert.
  
• Original works by Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt, and Roy Lichtenstein.
  
• Mayer had 12 job offers: Carnegie Mellon, McKinsey, Oracle.
  
• For the first month at work, she was a closet InfoSeek user, turning her computer screen so no one would see.
  
• Her high school debate team ... won the state championship her senior year.
  
• Her all-time favorite foods include duck confit Sloppy Joes, sliders of Angus beef with brie, and macaroni and cheese with lobster.
  
• dozens of Mayer's favorite Sprungli Luxemburgerli (bite-size macaroons), which she brought back from Zurich, where she was on business a few days earlier. She even sent invitees a Wikipedia link to information about the treat.
  
• Mayer samples a piece of cake and says, "I'm a huge fan of frosting. Vanilla fudge is my favorite. It gives you brain euphoria."
  
• Her favorite designers are de la Renta and Carolina Herrera.