China’s first and leading luxury lifestyle brand, Shanghai Tang, launched a new arrival to their family – the Little Lantern Baby collection.
The Little Lantern collection is inspired by the Lantern Festival that takes place in China each year when children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns.
The festival marks the end of the Chinese New Year and has been a celebration of families since ancient times.
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This autumn, British accessory brand Jimmy Choo will bring its international glamour and covetable shoes and bags to selected H&M stores.
The collection will be available from November 14 in around 200 stores across the world and is likely to create mass hysteria among shoppers.
The Rock Bar at Ayana Resort and Spa Bali takes the concept of “on the rocks” to a whole new level !
The Rock Bar is literally served straight up on the rocks – 14 meters above the ocean – with the Bali waves crashing against them.
Accessed via an inclinator that traverses the cliff-face, the Rock Bar is a spectacular feat of architecture and engineering.
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Harrods department store announced on Thursday it had joined with Swiss refiner Produits Artistiques Metaux Precieux to offer gold bars weighing 12.5kg.
Harrods, established in 1834, is the first London shop to offer gold in-store. The bars are being kept in a miniature vault on the lower ground floor.
The price of gold has soared in recent weeks as the dollar weakens, reaching another record high of US$1,063.60 an ounce (28.3g) on Thursday.
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Paris’s Michelin-starred restaurant, the Tour d’argent, is to sell 18,000 bottles of wine and spirits in an auction which is expected to raise about a million euros.
The d’Argent restaurant, which dates back to 1582, is cleaning out its 450,000-bottle wine cellar, considered one of the best in the world.
The restaurant is also selling some very old spirits, like three bottles of a Clos du Griffier Cognac from 1788, the year before the French Revolution.
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The Transformers actress, Megan Fox, 23, has signed on to model for the new Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans campaigns.
The actress succeeds Victoria Beckham (She is not re-upping her contract with the label so she can concentrate on her clothing line).
Fox’s Armani ads – which were photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott in Los Angeles this past weekend – will begin running worldwide in January.
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India’s richest man took a 66 percent pay cut to “set a personal example of moderation” after India’s government called for austerity in salaries of executives
Mukesh Ambani, the head of Reliance Industries, said he would cap his pay at 150m rupees ($3.3m) this year. He received 440m rupees in 2008.
With a net worth of $19.5 billion, Mukesh Ambani has been ranked seventh in the global list, topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($40 billion).
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Armani Dolci is a Giorgio Armani special line that features delectable chocolates, now including a special orange packaging for Halloween.
In the chic box, closed with a silk ribbon, there are artfully filled dark and milk chocolate bonbon with creamy fillings of gianduja (chocolate and nuts), and…a secret frizzy ingredient.
Levi’s “Go Forth” campaign is sending denim lovers and treasure seekers alike on a nationwide scavenger hunt with a grand prize of $100,000.
The game’s narrative revolves around a character named Grayson Ozias IV who has left wax cylinder voice recordings hidden across America.
The challenge for players is to find these recordings and, ultimately, the $100,000 fortune Ozias buried.
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Singer Skin launched her Absolut Vodka Rock Edition Bottle, in Milan Italy last October 15th.
Absolut Vodka Rock Edition designed by Skin is dressed in black leather with ornaments spikes by the 750 ml bottle. All in perfect heavy rock style!
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HUGO, the younger collection from Hugo Boss, has teamed up with the famous designer Karim Rashid on a limited edition perfume bottle Man Exclusive.
The HUGO perfume, released in 1995, comes now in a limited edition of 1000 pieces worldwide in order to celebrate the success of this fragrance.
Blackburn Rovers’ footballer El Hadji Diouf has a super shiny gold Cadillac Escalade.
The 28-year-old striker parked his latest 4×4, complete with a 6.2litre engine and 6-speed gear system, in a loading bay as he stepped out for lunch in Manchester
He is already the owner of great supercar including a white Cadillac Escalade, a show-stopping chrome Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren and a white BMW X6.
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Castles in France. Islands in the Caribbean. With a collective $1.27 trillion at their disposal, the members of The Forbes 400 could buy almost anything.
How about a country? A quick glance at the CIA Fact Book suggests the individual fortunes of many billionaires are as big as some of the world’s economies.
Bill Gates, America’s richest man with a net worth of $50 billion, has a personal balance sheet larger than the gross domestic product of 140 countries, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Bolivia and Uruguay.
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Bloomberg reports that, according to Yves Carcelle, the brand’s chief executive officer, Louis Vuitton will open its first stores in Lebanon and in Mongolia this year.
An unofficial source reported that the Louis Vuitton store in Ulaanbaatar will open on October 23rd 2009.
“Sometimes in our industry there is a tendency to follow your ego and sometimes open stores where you don’t have the market – we never do that,†Carcelle said.
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Nicolas Cage is looking to sell his New Orleans properties, one which is claimed to be a haunted house.
The first one, known as the “LaLaurie Mansion†, is in the French Quarter and is sale for $3,550,000.
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Jaeger-LeCoultre has launched a new iPhone application that aims to share the fascinating world of fine watch making with the public.
Rather than simply present their collection, the app invites you to look at iconic models from a whole new angle: the perspective of an amateur watchmaker.
The application lets you explore the various stages in creating a watch, and a comprehensive horological dictionary compliments the six introductory lessons.
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Louis Vuitton L’âme du Voyage is Haute Joaillerie for dreaming. For travel, with your mind. For discover new places with fantasy. Everything with style and class not easy to find. Enjoy.
This week, more than 400 exhibitors are in Paris, France for the 2009 Paris Chocolate Festival. The theme this year is opera.
The event kicked off last night with a chocolate fashion show where dresses are created by a combination of top fashion designers and chocolatiers.
Walking the runway wearing the chocolate fashions were models, actresses, television personalities and opera singers.
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Wild Caviar has almost vanished from face of the Earth and the privileged few that are still able to enjoy its delicacy are hit where it hurts most, their wallets.
However, Caviar Azovka hopes to revive the rare treat through their precise farming and a strong ambition.
“Most of the countries, and their historic producers of Caviar, have had to ban exportations of wild Caviar so as to protect the Sturgeon species and ensure its survival.”
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A special edition of the Czech magazine “Royal Report†has been released with gold letters on the cover and diamonds on the alphabet R.
The luxury magazine will be put up for auction and is expected to fetch more than 4 million Czech crowns ($228,936).
The price includes the special edition, a yearly subscription, a vacation four times a year to anywhere in the world and 12 hours use of a jet plane.
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