Luxury

NET-A-PORTER.COM is the world’s premier online luxury fashion retailer.
Presented in the style of a fashion magazine, offers the style-savvy customer exactly what she wants – unprecedented access to the hottest looks of the season from international cutting edge labels via worldwide express delivery.
Since launching in June 2000, NET-A-PORTER has successfully established itself as a luxury brand with impeccable packaging and unrivalled customer care.
The pages of NET-A-PORTER feature high fashion editorial, updated weekly with new content and product, which is viewed by over 1.25 million women each month.

BurJuman - the world's most luxurious shopping destination
The residence of high-fashion BurJuman brings the world before your eyes. Here's where the world's leading brands mingle comfortably with one another. Louis Vuitton, Dior, Hermes, Valentino, Emanel Ungaro, Loewe, Etro, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Christian Lacroix, Salvatore Ferragamo, Just Cavalli, and many more. Tempations abound, but the feeling of getting the finest in an ambience of absolute comfort and luxury is wonderful. With 300 leading stores including Saks 5th Avenue, you'll always be spoilt for choice.

High costs tarnish gold
Valentines will be getting fewer karats this year
Plunging stock prices and home values are making consumers feel less wealthy, and robbing some of the passion from luxury shopping.
"We'll sell a lot of diamond rings and pendants, from $59 up to $300 or $400," said Jerry Taylor, an assistant manager at Rich's Jewelry and Pawn Shop in Newark. "But we won't be selling much gold. This is the time for people to sell their gold, not buy it."

Wallet-Friendly Luxury Hotels - Shivani Vora, 10.01.07, 12:01 AM ET
Stay at the Ritz-Carlton in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and you'll bed down in a 430-square-foot room with a large marble bath and deep soaking tub, a flat screen television, and skyline views of the city.
When it's time for breakfast, a butler will serve you an omelet made to order, piping hot toast and freshly squeezed orange juice. Since the property is situated in the heart of the city, you can walk to all the major shopping and sightseeing.
But perhaps the best part about shacking up here? It's cheap. The room described above costs $200 a night.

Luxemont - At Luxemont, we have one thing on our mind - everything luxury. Luxemont offers luxe enthusiasts an exclusive and unique family of websites singularly designed with the luxury lifestyle in mind. Simply put, Luxemont is a stunning online guide guaranteed to tempt your passion for premium pleasures.
Browse the website for reputable travel inspiration, including exotic spa treatments and trendy holiday retreats, hidden resorts and private villas, even exclusive islands! Discriminating consumers can discover the latest entertainment, business news and gossip, while locating hard-to-find and exclusive items. Luxemont also promotes a collection of sophisticated luxury living, including magnificent homes and luxury home décor items. An arts and culture calendar endorses elite events around the world, and our bi-monthly newsletter covers all the latest trends in the luxury market.

Tiffany - Since 1837, Tiffany & Co. has been the world's
premier jeweler and America's house of design.

Shopping online and demand for high-tech items sees huge lift
Monday November 12 2007. Use of the internet for the bulk of Christmas shopping has doubled since 2006 (14% in 2007, versus 7% in 2006), according to the Annual Christmas Retail Survey published today by Deloitte.
74% of consumers will use online or mail order in some way for their Christmas shopping and two thirds (66%) of consumers will research or purchase goods online compared to half of the population (51%) last year. Consumer appetite for all things high tech will reach new heights over the festive period.

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Stella McCartney expands in luxury-hungry Asia
 SINGAPORE, Nov 19 (Reuters Life!) - Stella McCartney's luxury fashion and accessories label, part of French retail group PPR , which also owns Gucci and other luxury brands, opened its first boutique in Southeast Asia in Singapore, forging deeper into a region hungry for everything designer.
The store joins three outlets for the brand in China, regional distributor, The Lane Crawford Joyce Group said in a statement on Monday. It is also part of a global expansion by McCartney that will see shops in Tokyo, the Middle East and Moscow within the next few years.
The Singapore store stocks McCartney's main label as well as accessories including perfumes and her newly launched organic cosmetics line.
Along with Hong Kong and Shanghai, Singapore is one of the main shopping centres in Asia, where a growing, newly affluent class is fuelling demand for luxury goods. Stella McCartney’s web site Biography and news with photographs of current and previous collections.
www.stellamccartney.com/