Luxury Briefing.

WE are are about to embark on our once-a-year journey through luxury. Traditionally it begins with what’s new and next...

I sincerely hope that, by the time you read this, the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is plugged...

My conception of luxury was fixed by the time I was about 10. Forgive me if distance lends a little rose-hued beauty to this Proustian memory rush, but it went like this....

The perfume industry is vast and in?uential, but pitably disorganised and unadventurous. Anyone who has travelled in a train or a plane or a car (never mind a bus, whatever that is) knows the territory that urgently needs exploration...

European rights are airborne as I write this, finally, mercifully, heading toward their destinations around a globe shrouded in volcanic...

Our contacts at Porsche tell us that the recession is over! Orders for their rather ungainly looking Porsche Cayenne are...

Last night I was at a reception in a spectacular architects’ of?ce at the giddy heights of a bold, new skyscraper in one of the most beautiful downtowns in the world...

Whoever wins the next election, the question of class (or, at least, money) and its relationship to taste is not going to go away. This was all magnificently explained a century ago by Thorstein Veblen in his great book The Theory of the Leisure Class...

A recent visit to the Dunhill store reminded us of just how far luxury in the 21st century has come....

In the old days the Soviet Union did not allow over-flights and if you wanted to go to Japan you had to jet over the North Pole...