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Inside Louis Vuitton's sleek flagship store on New York City's Fifth Avenue, customers are ogling the now ubiquitous Murakami Speedy, a monogram handbag that sells for $1,500 and is carried by such A-list celebs as J. Lo and Reese Witherspoon. Four blocks south, the same bag--or what looks like it, anyway--can be had for $35. A California woman, in town with her fiance last week, was spotted perusing a table stacked with fake Vuitton, Kate Spade and Marc Jacobs handbags. She was looking for a new Vuitton bag because the strap...
...majority of them originate--have become a mortal threat. "Ten years ago we said it wasn't a problem, that it was even proof of our success," says Marc-Antoine Jamet, president of France's anti-counterfeiting lobbying group Union des Fabricants, and secretary-general of LVMH, whose Louis Vuitton bags are perhaps the most flagrantly ripped off in the world. "Nobody says that now. We see it as an economic and even a social danger...
...only get more and more extravagant and opulent. One of the must-have features is a posh spa: every Strip hotel has one, such as the 69,000-sq.-ft. Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian, which has a two-story rock-climbing wall. Luxury designer shops, from Louis Vuitton and Gucci to Armani and Dior, are so common that they seem practically like Gaps in Vegas. Just down the Strip from the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, which is inside the Venetian, the Bellagio houses another impressive gallery, which showcases works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. There is even...
...disease, has managed his most ambitious project ever with customary painstaking attention to detail--he is known to call colleagues in the middle of the night to share his latest brainstorms. In addition to the first-class luxury retail brands you would expect to find (Cartier, Chanel, Louis Vuitton), his shops will offer an array of his own private-label products. Also on display in a gallery will be selected works from the world-class art collection that was prominently featured at the Bellagio. (Wynn recently paid $8.8 million for a John Singer Sargent portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson.) While...
...Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian, which has a two-story rock-climbing wall. Vegas dining has become so high-end, with restaurants run by chefs such as Alain Ducasse, Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, that it employs more master sommeliers than any other U.S. city. Luxury shops - Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Armani, Dior - are so common that they seem practically like Gaps in Vegas. Just down the Strip from the Venetian, home to the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, the Bellagio houses a gallery that shows works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A good chunk of Vegas' growth is driven...