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...what’s hip and what is totally passé, is honed to the sharpest perception. For advice on men and clothes, people flock to Jenn like pilgrims to Mecca. But, her style is so accented by a clear intelligence, that questions about Louis Vuitton are left by the wayside as Jenn’s peers listen to her theories on poverty, society and classism. William Julius Wilson, the world’s authority on race and poverty is Jenn’s biggest fan. Somehow, through her social studies driven forays into K-School culture, Jenn has impressed...
...Terror chic has gone the way of heroin chic. Expect pretty ads for spring. Designer Marc Jacobs, who was in New York on Sept. 11 and was so shaken that he had to postpone his Louis Vuitton collection in Paris, has now said that the new Vuitton ads won't feature travel imagery. Instead? A fantasy, fairytale theme...
...want: cheap labor, even cheaper Prada bags, pirated DVDs, ecstasy pills, one-night stands. (And people from across the border spent $846 million last year, 10% of Hong Kong's total retail trade.) But once inside this looking- glass world, nothing is quite the genuine article. The Louis Vuitton bags are made in Guangdong; many of the impressive skyscrapers are empty; the women are lovely, but that beauty might have been bought from Shenzhen's army of plastic surgeons. Even the money, Shenzhen's raison d'etre, is suspect: local buses alone collect $160,000 in fake coins every year...
Vacationing Japanese often take advantage of cheaper prices on items other than Gucci scarves and Louis Vuitton bags. Dentists and doctors in Taiwan and Thailand are increasingly on the tourist trail from Tokyo: a round-trip ticket to Taipei and a visit to a dentist - many of them U.S.-trained - cost less than a lunchtime appointment with a tooth doc at home. Japanese travelers are also increasingly making a beeline for luxury services at bargain prices, like foot massages in Taiwan and herbal steam spas in South Korea...
...Japanese generation gap could lay in the tastes of fashionable Japan. Although Japanese consumers buy the vast majority of Yamamoto, Miyake and Comme des GarCons merchandise, they are fascinated with what the Western world is wearing. The stock of international fashion conglomerates like LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and the Gucci Group can rise or fall depending on the strength of the yen and the Japanese economy. With good reason: Japanese shoppers account for some 32% of Gucci and more than 45% of Louis Vuitton brand sales. Japanese consumers, says Gucci CEO Domenico De Sole, "like brands that are truly...