A staff member of the new Gucci flagship store in Shanghai chats with customers next to a bag on display on its opening day June 6, 2009. REUTERS/Nir Elias HONG KONG, Sept 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) – One grey area of Chinese consumption is becoming more black and white. Cross-border trading known as daigou has been …
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In this footage of 1963, it examines the use of spectacles or glasses throughout history. It share earlier designs in the British Optical Association museum from the 14th century to the 18th century. One example it shows a woman in the Victorian era then transitions to a modern woman reading a magazine with her butterfly …
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Chanel loses EU court battle over Huawei logo Judges ruled in favour of Huawei, which had sought an EU-wide trademark for a logo it wanted to use, but the fashion house said it was too similar. The EU General Court in Luxembourg ruled on Wednesday that the logos “share some similarities but their visual differences …
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New York-based novelist Amitav Ghosh recently ordered a fountain pen from an artisanal maker in India. “The last time I looked at his online list, it said my order would be ready in 95 weeks,” the Indian-born author, most recently, of Gun Island, told me. Ghosh is willing to wait for his pen to arrive …
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It’s only 9 a.m., but there’s a young Frenchman with shaggy hair and tight plaid pants already intently clacking away on a contraption that looks straight out of his grandmother’s attic. Its clipped, staccato sound could easily pass for a wartime Enigma machine, but this young hipster is waxing poetic about weft and warp in lieu …
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The Ronson lighter company started as The Art Metal Works in 1897 and was incorporated on July 20, 1898, by Max Hecht, Louis Vincent Aronson and Leopold Herzig, in Newark, New Jersey. Louis V. Aronson was a huge creative driving force for the company; and, with a few business adjustments, including the addition of Alexander …
The jump in second-hand luxury sales could be attributed to consumers leaning towards sustainability in a time of crisis. Covid-19 has made most shoppers cost-conscious this holiday season, but those with cash to burn are still finding ways to splurge. As retail sales in general suffer, luxury fashion—the previously owned kind—is flying off the shelves. Peer-to-peer online luxury …
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Legendary French fashion designer Pierre Cardin has died at the age of 98, France’s Fine Arts Academy announced on Tuesday in a statement on Twitter. “The Perpetual Secretary, Laurent Petitgirard, and the members of the Academy of Fine Arts are deeply saddened to announce the death of their colleague Pierre Cardin. He had been elected …
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From rucksacks to despatch boxes, Birkin bags to Louis Vuitton luggage, Bags: Inside Out explores the style, function, design and craftsmanship of the ultimate accessory. The Victoria and Albert Museum is showing some 300 items at the exhibition called Bags: Inside and Out . They range from a 16th-century embroidered purse to a contemporary plastic rucksack by …
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On Thursday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency announced it worked with the Los Angeles police department to seize a cache of counterfeit goods worth an estimated $32 million. Though the array of products consisted of everything from phony prescription drugs to cosmetics, it also included some lookalikes of choice designer goods. Most …
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