French luxury goods firm Hermes have created this viral video featuring some Fingerboard skate action and their current Fall/Winter 2010 Collection.
The video – directed by Alexis Milant – follows a hand with a trademarked orange skateboard as it glides, flips and skates over handbags and accessories.
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The new Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong will be the tallest hotel in the world and there will be an infinity-edge pool on the top floor.
The current record for the highest hotel pool is the infinity pool on the edge of the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, an open-air pool perched 55 stories up.
Like the Marina Bay Sands, the Ritz-Carlton pool will also be an infinity pool, but it will be located indoors on the 118th floor.
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BMW has teamed up with piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons to create the Individual 7-Series Composition.
Deliberately reminiscent of the piano keyboard, the colour schemes reflect the contrast between black and white.
The Composition features a hand polished paint job with three-stage clear coat, high-gloss Shadow Line trim, a gold coachline and 20-inch alloy wheels.
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Marriott International has purchased the historic Berners Hotel in London, which it plans to redevelop over the next two years into a boutique Edition brand hotel.
The London Edition marks the latest new property announcement for a brand which only opened the doors of its first property a few weeks ago in Hawaii.
The building will now be totally redeveloped by Ian Schrager, Marriott’s partner in the Edition venture and the man credited with creating the “boutique hotel” genre.
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The Orion Suitcase is designed by Gabriele Pezzlini and made of aluminum reinforced with carbon and Kevlar. The interior is lined in a fine, natural cowhide.
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British designer Vivienne Westwood is the latest to create a special packaging for Chivas Regal‘s 18 year Scotch bottle.
The last limited edition bottle was designed by Christian Lacroix and the design was more traditional.
The limited edition of Chivas Regal 18 will sell for around the 200 Euro mark, and will be available for Christmas 2010 and into the new year.
A 18th-century Chinese vase discovered during a routine clear-out of a bungalow in northwest London has sold at auction for a record £53m (85 million dollars).
The 16-inch Qianlong porcelain vase is understood to have been bought by a private buyer from China in the sale Thursday at a small London auction house.
The item has made the brother and sister who inherited the vase following its discovery in their parents’ north London suburban home instant multi-millionaires.
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English musician Paul Weller has designed a one-off MINI that will be auctioned for charity this month beginning today (November 11).
The car is finished in bold pink and brown stripes with a single silver line running up the bonnet and over the roof.
The model is a 2008 MINI Cooper fitted with 17-inch Crown Spoke alloy wheels and with a black leather finish inside.
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An Andy Warhol canvas of a black-and-white Coke bottle has sold for $35.36m at an auction in New York.
Sotheby’s said Coca-Cola [4] (Large Coca-Cola) “is a landmark in the artist’s creation of his pop art style”.
Organizers reportedly whet the appetite of live bidders by serving small bottles of soda pop as guests mingled ahead of the New York sale.
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Allure of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship along with its twin Oasis of the Seas, made its US debut Thursday with operator Royal Caribbean showing off innovations including the first Starbucks coffee house at sea.
Allure soars 65 meters (213 feet) above the waterline, stretches 360 meters (1,181 feet) from bow to stern and fully loaded weighs 225,282 tons.
It was built by South Korea’s STX Finland Cruise shipyards in Finland at a cost of one billion dollars. The Allure made its US debut after a 13-day transatlantic journey from Turku, Finland, to Florida.
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Baume & Mercier is currently holding a competition via its Facebook page to give its fans a rare chance to attend the prestigious Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) in Geneva, Switzerland.
“This is a gift to our fans at the occasion of Baume & Mercier’s 180th anniversary. We couldn’t celebrate it without them,” said CEO Alain Zimmermann.
Two lucky contestants will be chosen as Baume & Mercier’s “very special reporters” to cover the industry professionals-only SIHH trade show this January.
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Cristiano Ronaldo received, along with all his Real Madrid teammates, a new car from team sponsor Audi in Madrid on Monday.
In attendance were the players who accepted the car keys from the children of the members of the club along with President Florentino Perez.
Cristiano Ronaldo who already boasts of glorious cars in his garage took home a blue RS5 while Kaka opted for RS6.
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Last night the much anticipated Ralph Lauren 4D events took place in London and New York, celebrating 10 years of being on the web.
Larger-than-life models, Polo players four stories tall, and iconic accessories such as the Ricky Bag, ties and belts all appeared to wrap the length of the building.
The installation also gave the illusion that images were extending beyond the building and floating out into space toward the audience, complete with music.
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The Tartan Leather iPad Case features a rich dark leather with the tartan pattern imposed onto the leather itself.
The interior of the Ralph Lauren iPad case is lined in solid calfskin with a lightly padded plaid sleeve for added protection.
The iPad case as well as other accessories in a similar light are available now at RalphLauren.com.
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The danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen is entering the iPod/iPhone accessory market with the BeoSound 8.
The brilliant-looking, great-sounding iPod dock – that also docks with iPads- is the first from B&O who claim that it is “the best of its kind in the market”.
It packs two 70w active speakers and the device has also been given an aluminium centrepiece that houses the touch controls.
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UK luxury brand Burberry will launch an online bespoke service for trench coats starting early next year.
The announcement was made on November 9 by company executives during the International Herald Tribune’s Luxury Conference in London.
Chief executive officer Angela Ahrendts said Web users would be able to select the colors and styles of the coats online, as well as add unique detailing like buttons and initials.
Chief creative officer Christopher Bailey said there will be almost “12 million options” for customers when it comes to designing the bespoke pieces.
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Behind the scenes at the Fall 2010 Calvin Klein shoot. Featuring models Edita, Kendra Spears, and David Smith.
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The world’s first Aston Martin Club Lounge has just opened its doors. The club is located at The Prime Society in Singapore’s Dempsey Hill neighborhood.
Created by Ingrid Prasatya, the lounge features custom-made tables crafted out of authentic Aston Martin wheel-rims as well as large-format prints of different car models.
Specially mixed cocktails in martini glasses referencing Aston Martin are also named after the different cars.
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Paris’ world-famous luxury Crillon hotel has been sold to Saudi investors linked to the royal family for around 250 million euros ($446 million).
US-based Starwood Capital is in the final stages of the sale which does not include a reportedly 100-million-euro programme needed to modernise one of the world’s oldest luxury hotels, according to the daily Le Figaro.
The Kempinski Hotels group is to manage the Crillon, the paper said, but the new acquisition would be its first in France.
The Crillon, built in the 18th century on what would become the Place de la Concorde, has 147 rooms and suites and employs around 360 people.
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Webb deVlam has created a hand-blown limited edition bottle to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the invention of Bombay Sapphire gin.
The Limited Edition marks the 250th anniversary next year of the invention of the secret recipe upon which Bombay Sapphire is based.
Only 350 bottles, handcrafted in high quality crystal and set with crystal stones, will be offered for sale in a custom-made gift box.
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China’s ever increasing economic clout has again been reflected in a survey on consumer tastes in luxury goods which has shown the nation not only knows what goods it wants, it most certainly now has the means by which to buy them.
A report released this week by Bain & Company has claimed China is now the fastest-growing consumer of leather goods and jewelry worldwide.
Its overall luxury market has grown 23 per cent this year, meaning it’s on target to reap some 84.3 billion yuan (9.2 billion euro).
But what the world really wants to know is what are the Chinese after. According to this report, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Gucci are the most lusted-for brands.
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