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This supplement to Time is dedicated to the best luxury products, trends and destinations of 2005. In addition to traditional objects of desire, like Cartier's Caresse d'Orchidées brooch or Dyson's DC15 Animal vacuum, there's always a new luxury?trend looming on the horizon. Today lifestyle retailers like Whole Foods Market and designers like jeweler John Hardy are talking about ?sustainable? luxury products that are solutions, not just commodities. That could mean an environmentally sustainable factory or store, or it could be the notion of feeding company employees homegrown organic food for lunch. These ever...
...BAGS 2005 will go down in the books as the year of the handbag. Just in time for the resort season: a trend for leather-trimmed canvas...
...cost taxpayers $A75,000. Without a change in economy-wide forces, things will only get worse, says Gregory, who has calculated that 50% of indigenous people could be termed as unemployed by 2011. "Whether you look forward, or look back, the optimists are arguing for a break in the trend," says a gloomy Gregory. "It's time to look for something...
...weekend, despite the absence of students over Thanksgiving break. While none witnessed the overnight lines or shopfloor brawls seen elsewhere in the country, many local businesses said yesterday they expected to equal or improve upon their performances last year. And the varying successes of Harvard Square businesses point to trends in consumption and tourism in Cambridge over the holiday weekend, with growth more pronounced at larger stores and branches of national chains. Urban Outfitters claimed to be experiencing a typical rise in purchases this year, while employees at the Gap and Jasmine Sola said they were too busy to comment...
...continuation of this trend could pose a serious problem for Asia. The region needs super-competitive currencies in order to keep its export-led growth model humming. To the extent the surprisingly robust dollar drags Asian currencies along for the ride, Asia's exports will become more expensive. Without support from internal consumption, further dollar strengthening could turn the region's export boom into a bust, a devastating development for growth...