Luxury Briefing.

I have always admired Sir Arnold Bax’s precept that “I will try anything once, except incest and folk-dancing.” So I have just become a hotelier...

First luxury casualty of the Crash of ’09 is the subterranean bar at Bob Bob Ricard, a stupendously wrong new Soho restaurant. This annoyingly named venture opened late in 2008 on the site of Circus: it takes the zeitgeist by the lapels and nuts it most forcibly. And the zeitgeist has not taken kindly to this assault...

Year-to-date (as of 11/2/09), the TAG Luxury Stock Index was down 8.5%, underperforming most of the major market indices (year-to-date,...

So, who’s been out shopping lately? As various luxury brands hurriedly rethink their plans for 2009, it is time to...

BY now we are all too familiar with the disastrous sales figures of the 2008 holiday season as well as...

Not terribly surprisingly, with the retail sector being hit hard, luxury brands and their suppliers have become more focused on...

In my last column, I wrote that the recession might prove to be an opportunity for luxury brands to rethink...

For the ultra-wealthy, commissioning a sailing superyacht is a way to buy into a fascinating project and to gain the high-luxury freedom of the seas. Naval architect ED DUBOIS is the talented pioneer of the sailing superyacht and has been setting the standard for their design since 1977. KATE PATRICK went to meet a man who has floated a few boats

On Madison Avenue, Loro Piana will move to the south-west corner of 65th and Madison. Hailing from Florence, luxury watchmaker...

Many landlords and vendors are currently focused upon converting transactions which in some cases have been outstanding since before Christmas....