Well, it was bound to happen.  My husband found a line of handbags for me.  Bless.  He stumbled on a blurb while reading a magazine, which is often how I discover new lines of handbags.  In this case, however, the magazine happened to be Plane And Pilot. Anyway, here’s the scoop:  A former flight attendant [...]

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So, all the designers have some version of orange in their Spring collections. I don’t usually do orange. Especially not day-glo orange à la Stephen Sprouse (sorry, Louis Vuitton, we must agree to disagree here). For some reason, the color orange really raises my hackles.  I dunno, maybe orange interrupts my Chi. However, I have [...]

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I received a notification from eLuxury today that they are changing their focus. Over the next six months we will be transitioning into an online magazine with an emphasis in luxury markets. The new site will be utilized as a reference for providing information on a wide array of luxury categories. By June of 2009, [...]

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Well, it was inevitable.  While the economy has hit retail very hard, sales of luxury goods had the sharpest decline–down approx. 36% this season, and women’s clothing was next, down almost 25%. Chanel plans to cut 200 jobs–representing 10 percent of its production workforce–effective Wednesday, including 16 staffers from their Rue Cambon boutique, the Guardian [...]

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After making me suffer through years of teen-tastic bubblegum colored plastic-coated canvas, Dooney & Bourke has actually released a line that might make me interested in buying from them again. Witness the Florentine Vachetta, a luscious, robust, adult-flavored line that looks even better in person than on the Dooney site.  While the styles are nothing [...]

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