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...Paris Making eBay Pay for Fakes A French court ruled on June 30 that auction website eBay must pay nearly $63 million to a group of luxury brands, including Louis Vuitton, Dior and Givenchy, after finding that the company wasn't doing enough to deter the sale of fake handbags, perfume and other knockoff goods. Weeks earlier, another French court ordered eBay to pay nearly $32,000 to the luxury retailer Hermčs. Meanwhile, in the U.S., eBay awaits a ruling in a similar case brought by jeweler Tiffany...
...whose values are quite different from the ones I was raised with? To me, it is a question of simple mathematics. Twenty years ago, my parents could barely afford to buy me a $1 toy horse for my first Christmas present in London. Today, Chinese tourists flock to Louis Vuitton on the Champs Elysées. Life in China has gotten vastly better, and, wherever they are, Chinese can feel proud about being Chinese...
...SATC, as in fashion magazines like Vogue and In Style, the editorial is indistinguishable from the advertising. You can't tell where the drama ends and the product placement begins. Carrie's friendship with her new assistant (Dreamgirls' Jennifer Hudson) is cemented with the gift of a Louis Vuitton purse; and, in one climactic scene, the humans trying to spill out their emotions are upstaged by a Manolo Blahnik shopping bag. Posh brand names show up everywhere, occasionally with severe consequences (Carrie is effectively led astray by a Vivienne Westwood dress), but mostly to suggest the luxe that goes with...
...town Air Force Ones that I had custom outfitted with Gucci material on the toe and swoosh. I’d be shocked if anyone at Harvard even knows what Iceberg is, or once took the trouble to have their Timbs or Forces outfitted with Gucci, or even Louis Vuitton print. For two years in high school, I sold Gucci and LV outfitted shoes—sometimes to kids on my older brother’s basketball team, and sometimes to the suspected drug dealers living around the edges of Hyde Park. I had revenues in the five figures...
...luxury items, from porcelain to purses. The figurines were used as table decorations at lavish Baroque banquets and festivals and created an atmosphere of luxury, which Valerie Steele, from The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, likened to the feeling one gets today when walking into a Louis Vuitton store. “Part of the luxury experience is going to the store and admiring the architecture,” Steele says. “Modern luxury is an aura of excellence.” In the 18th century, these porcelain centerpieces often depicted miniature versions of the gardens...