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...Latest timepiece trend to entice luxury watchmakers and their avid clientele is sport watches. One of this year's stylish, not-to-be-missed introductions is the RPM collection from Canadian jeweler Birks. Available this fall at Birks in Canada and at Mayors, the company's sister chain in the U.S., the Swiss-made line?Birks' first new sport collection in five years?boasts four different adventure-ready versions, all for less than $1,300 each...
...want to do business in China, call Balbina Wong. The deputy chairman and CEO of luxury-brand management and distribution group ImagineX, as well as its retail-management sister company the Walton Brown Group, Wong, 64, has played a pivotal role in the expansion plans of brands like Ferragamo, Hugo Boss, Marc Jacobs, DKNY, Tumi and Coach into what is predicted to become the world's biggest luxury market...
Unlike her older brother and sister, who became doctors, she was drawn early on to an environment of "quality and beauty," Hermann says. She aimed high for l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), one of Europe's best business schools, but that meant moving to Paris alone at age 16 for a two-year prep course. The girl from the provinces was lonely in the beautiful city and distracted herself on weekends by shopping, she says, "to be out among people...
...along the Utah-Arizona border. It is typical for men to have three wives and about 30 children, though some have many more. Women wear their hair long and braided, their clothes modest. They will carry their iPods with them all day so they can listen to Jeffs' sermons. "Sister wives" share household chores and raise multitudes of children as their husbands rotate among bedrooms. It's virtually impossible for child-welfare officials to track levels of sexual abuse. When girls are ready to marry, they "turn themselves in" for the FLDS prophet to arrange a "celestial marriage." The husband...
...they all stayed up late, frantically stitching a wedding dress. One sister testified that Doe was sobbing so heavily, it was hard to fit the lace on the bodice. "I felt like I was getting ready for death," Doe said. She said she hung her head and cried during the ceremony when Jeffs told her to say "I do," and she had to be told to kiss her new husband. Jeffs then instructed the couple to "go forth and multiply and replenish the earth with good priesthood children," she testified. She got home to find a new queen-size...