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Much of the Big Three's luxury lag has to do with changing consumer tastes. The high-end market has detoured dramatically from the posh, living-room-on-wheels tradition of Cadillacs and Lincolns that once defined upper-middle-class status. Today's luxury buyers, guided by the Information Age, are less extravagant, more practical and technologically sharper. "The status symbol used to be 'I've got money,'" says Jim Press, general manager of Toyota Motor Sales USA. "But here in the late 1990s, it's 'I've got good taste.' The days of conspicuous consumption are gone...
...posh party to honor a Danish patriarch on his 60th birthday, the favored son rises to make a toast. His father, he says, sexually ravaged him and his twin sister, a recent suicide, when they were kids. This acerbic farce-melodrama, laureled at Cannes and by critics' groups, is directed in a fake-verite style that distracts a bit from the entertaining spectacle of the rich airing their bloody silk underwear in public. But it's still creepy fun to watch the upper class pretend a family isn't in tatters. When propriety meets outrage in a chateau, guess which...
Just across the river from their Law School counterparts, Business School students are living in dorms that are a prelude to future stays in posh hotels as globe-trotting executives...
Jovin, a senior majoring in political science, was found dead of multiple stab wounds around 10 p.m. last Friday evening a little over a mile from campus. Last seen at 9:15 p.m. leaving a New Haven church where she was volunteering, Jovin was found in the posh East Rock neighborhood, where several Yale faculty members live, with 17 stab wounds in her head and chest...
...part a response to the user-friendly Sephora, Bergdorf Goodman, the posh Manhattan department store, is nearly tripling the size of its cosmetics floor and adding a multitude of new services, including free makeovers and informal seminars on anti-aging treatments. The cosmetics floors at Bloomingdale's stores in Manhattan and Century City, Calif., have recently finished renovations to make their products more accessible to customers and the sales turf easier to navigate...