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...there's another surprise in store, literally, and it's not Dessureault's revelation that 495 Balenciaga bags have sold at Saks in just six weeks. Instead he leads me behind a boudoir-pink wall to a pretty blond in a matching pink uniform. She's wrapping a stack of saucy lingerie items for two women who are entirely veiled, including burqas. When they leave, Lisa Hastings, the manager of Agent Provocateur, explains that they are a mother and daughter shopping for the daughter's wedding lingerie, adding that she sells plenty of "playful" underwear to women wearing abayas...
...hand-stitching the driving shoes himself. Many of the families in his factory have been with the company for several generations, at least since Dorino, Diego and Andrea's father, set up shop in Casette d'Ete in the 1940s and later began manufacturing shoes for private-label department-store brands in addition to designers like Calvin Klein and Azzedine Alaïa. Dorino's father Filippo was a local cobbler whose workbench still sits in a corner on the second floor of the factory as a kind of reminder of the family's more humble beginnings...
...splurges on a Trinity ring to the gemstone buyer in Jaipur, India, who buys a handful of uncut moonstones while sitting in the gutter on a busy market street. Shopping is primordial and social at the same time. If you need a new computer, you go to the Apple store. And, incidentally, the folks at Apple have made it incredibly easy to hang out there for a while, maybe buy some more stuff and then come back, again and again. At a recent meeting with Ikea executives from Sweden, I was surprised to learn that consumers of the brand...
Cartier's resident "nose," Mathilde Laurent, left, will meet with clients at least four times in the store's Salon des Parfums. Over the course of two or three hours, Laurent will grill clients about why they like to wear perfume, what their favorite childhood fragrances were and which ingredients they use when cooking. In subsequent appointments, clients are given three prototypes from which to choose, and then Laurent adds the final touches to the fragrance. The process can take anywhere from six months to three years, depending on the client, and costs $72,600. The finished product arrives...
WHAT'S BEING BOUGHT AND SOLD? The most popular consumer goods on eBay are designer handbags, shoes and accessories, and high-end crystal, furniture, art and electronics. There are other auction sites too. Amazon has a cooperative marketplace with a store-within-a-store concept, like a Louis Vuitton boutique in Bloomingdale's. Google just launched Base, which brings buyers and sellers together through advertising. Then there are niche players like [my company] portero.com for luxury goods...