Sustained by robust growth in the global luxury retail business, luxury goods manufacturer Montblanc, recognized worldwide for its classic timepieces, jewelry, leather goods and writing instruments opened an exclusive boutique in Kuwait’s Avenues Mall Phase II recently.  The boutique is the largest Montblanc boutique in the Middle East region.
Speaking to reporters at the venue after [...]

As Rosemount Australian Fashion Week enters its teens the event is now a destination for international buyers.
On Monday more than 100 fashion designers from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and India will begin showing their wares at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week’s spring-summer 2008 collections. In the front rows, next to the media and celebrities, local and [...]

As one of the worlds biggest luxury goods markets, Japan should be every emerging designers paradise. But its famously enthusiastic shoppers and fashion-crazy schoolgirls tend to either buy global brands or underground labels that revolve around the latest teenage fad, leaving little space for new, upmarket domestic designers.
%26quot;My brand doesnt completely fit the Japanese market, [...]

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - In Japan, they are known as “U-turners”: young Japanese designers who trained abroad and are now returning home to build their brands.
But it isn’t easy to lure customers in one of the world’s biggest luxury goods markets as Japanese consumers are famously brand-obsessed and big European labels such as Gucci, Prada [...]

Cashmere make-up artist Mariessa Waddington bought the bag at the retail shop attached to Florian Leathergoods Ltd in Madras Street in February.
It was one of several Jimmy Choo and other luxury brand-name handbags available in the store.
She thought she was buying a genuine Jimmy Choo handbag and on inquiry was told, she said, the bag [...]

But despite their best efforts, wrapping up in fur is a trend that has failed to go away.
%26quot;Without a doubt, there are more people wearing fur today than ever before,%26quot; said Timothy Everest, a member of the Hong Kong Fur Federation.
Still, while industry insiders gush about growing sales and new frontiers, public relations remains the [...]

And, perhaps wisely, the 35-year-old former Gucci designer did not stray far from the path that made Valentino the red-carpet favourite for generations of glamorous women from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Julia Roberts.
Ruffles, bows and flaming red dresses %26ndash; the signature touches Valentino made his own over decades %26ndash; all made their appearance, together with [...]

John Galliano took a trip back to the 1960s at Dior on Monday updating the rich bored housewife look made famous by Bancroft in the film The Graduate for a generation of women looking to take that buttoned-up womanliness into the office.
To the pumping introduction of %26quot;Mrs Robinson%26quot;, the title track from the 1967 movie, [...]