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...rises and sets at Neiman Marcus. And the bar is higher than ever. A flourishing new Chanel category dubbed "demi-couture" rests between ready-to-wear and couture, with jackets ringing in at upwards of $6,000. Handbags have skyrocketed over the past two years, with the exotic-skin bags of Nancy Gonzalez special standouts. Fur is also flying out of the stores, including a Chado Ralph Rucci chinchilla clearly worth mentioning. And forward fashion, believe it or not, has stepped way up. "Eight years ago, the customer thought of Prada as being fairly avant-garde. Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magical Thinkers | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

Saving face. Skin care is almost three times as popular in China as makeup. Imported foreign products dominate the high end of the market because beauty products tend to cost less than luxury fashion items, so women are willing to splurge on them. Skin-care sales in different regions of China account for 26% to 35% of total cosmetics sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Breaking out the largest logos | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...average, affluent Chinese consumers will spend up to $280 on a single skin-care product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Breaking out the largest logos | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

Where they shop for Skin-care products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Breaking out the largest logos | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...tuning their wine plans on the Web. Using Crushpad's online services and consultations with the staff winemaker, home enologists select grapes from specific vineyards (or provide their own) and are then led through the Crushpad 30, a list of options and decisions about the winemaking process: Duration of skin contact? Natural or cultured yeasts? What type of bottle closure? Customers must commit to at least one barrel of wine, which ranges in price from $5,000 to more than $10,000, depending on the wine they make. One barrel produces about 25 cases, or roughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Exclusive Vintage Is Your Own | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

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