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Monday, March 14, 2011
The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents World’s greenest airlines unveiled.
The world’s greenest airlines have been named at the ITB Berlin travel show, with European carrier Monarch topping the list.
The study of airline efficiency was conducted by Atmosfair, a carbon offsetting company, and looked into factors such as how efficient an airline’s fleet was and how full its planes normally fly.
Monarch, a charter and scheduled airline operating predominantly from the UK, was judged the world’s most efficient airline, with Atmosfair praising its efficient aircraft and high seating density.
German carrier Condor, owned by holiday giant Thomas Cook, won second place thanks to its high occupancy and Canadian Air Transat was ranked third, making it the most efficient long-haul carrier.
Some of the world’s better-known airlines fared less well, with Emirates in 30th place, Delta in 33rd, Air France in 37th, Lufthansa 52nd, British Airways in 61st, American Airlines in 63rd and Virgin Atlantic in 99th place.
Although the airline index covered 92 percent of global air traffic, it deliberately excluded budget carriers because of problems with comparing them on an equal footing, most obviously because low-cost carriers often receive subsidies and fly to airports further away from cities, causing additional emissions.
Atmosfair Airline Index 2011
1 Monarch Airlines
2 Condor Flugdienst
3 Air Transat A.T.Inc.
4 Air New Zealand Link
5 Kingfisher Airlines
6 EVA Airways
7 Air Europa
8 Srilankan Airlines
9 TAM Regional
10 Edelweiss Air
Source: AFPrelaxnews – See the full list at www.atmosfair.de
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Gold Vending Machine Debuts At Vegas Casino.
The Golden Nugget hotel in downtown Las Vegas is living up to its name with the installation of an ATM that dispenses gold instead of cash.
Visitors are now able to buy gold coins and 24-karat “bars” weighing from 1 gram to 1 ounce at the new Gold to Go machine.
Prices automatically adjust every 10 minutes to reflect actual market value. The one ounce coin, at the moment, goes for about $1,400.
Golden Nugget owners believe a gold vending machine is actually a perfect fit for the casino. They already house the largest gold nugget in the world.
The first Gold To Go machine debuted in Florida just a few months ago. Operators say it’s so popular it has to be refilled about every three days.
The machine only accepts cash and is gold plated, bolted to the ground and virtually impossible to move.
Via Msnbc – latimes
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents 2011 Hurun Best of the Best Awards.
Luxury-brand awareness is growing among China’s super rich, who recognize 20% more of the lavish brands than they did last year, according to the Hurun Report.
The 2011 Best of The Best Survey, which interviewed 401 Chinese mainland millionaires, each with assets of more than 10 million yuan ($1.5 million), said the super rich in China are developing more sophisticated tastes in luxury products.
“Chinese entrepreneurs are getting more and more sophisticated, discerning and confident in their personal style, and what they aspire to, as they try to turn new money into old money,” said Rupert Hoogewerf, founder of the Hurun Report.
“The time for China to learn from Europe is over. People here are becoming better educated. They are getting to know luxury brands that are not even familiar to some Europeans,” Hoogewerf said.
According to the 2010 Hurun Wealth Report, released in April, there are 875,000 multimillionaires and 55,000 billionaires in China, or 6.1 percent more millionaires and 7.8 percent more billionaires than last year.
This year, Louis Vuitton was again No 1 in the top ten overall most popular luxury brands among China’s super rich.
Hermes rose to second place from fourth last year, and Chanel stayed in third place. Cartier was fourth and Gucci remained in fifth.
Cartier was the No 1 overall jewelry brand for the sixth year running, and Patek Philippe the leading luxury watch brand for the third time.
Luxury watches and jewelry continue to rank as the top collectibles for the rich, according to 44 percent of respondents, up by 10 percent over last year. Meanwhile, more of the wealthy prefer collecting red wine to luxury cars, the survey found.
The report also found that the Chinese rich like to travel abroad more and four out of five millionaires consider educating their children overseas.
“Luxury brands have a very special place in China, as there is strong gift-giving culture here. Lots of people like to receive luxury brands to improve their status. It’s a noticeable trend,” Hoogewerf said
Via China Daily
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Friday, March 11, 2011
The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents China may double luxury sales by 2015.
China’s luxury spending may more than double by 2015, surpassing Japan to become the world’s largest market for branded goods, according to McKinsey & Co.
Sales of luxury items in China, including clothes, handbags, watches and fine jewelry, are expected to increase to about 180 billion yuan in 2015.
The 2015 estimate would be equivalent to 20 per cent of global luxury spending, the consulting company said.
“Even with the proliferation of luxury stores in recent years, China is far from reaching saturation,” Yuval Atsmon, a principal at McKinsey said. Via Bloomberg
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Western luxe brands turn to China’s Twitter, Weibo.
Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, and Burberry are testing the Chinese microblogging service Weibo to research their most promising market of the future from the inside.
The platform, which grows at 10 million users per month, has been attracting an elite of Western luxe brands over the past month, testing ideas for campaigns or other projects directly on their Chinese audience.
“You can immediately see how the market and your following will respond to something if you want to do research” said Leaf Greener, fashion editor of Elle China.
Just like Twitter, Weibo lets its users post updates of up to 140 characters, “which in Mandarin Chinese is substantial, allowing for more detailed expression,” BoF states.
Thanks to more sophisticated features that resemble those on Facebook, the internet portal is well mapped-out to serve as a marketing testing tool for international fashion brands.
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Bell & Ross Customized Harley-Davidson.
Bell & Ross watches and Shaw Harley Davidson have teamed up to develop a one-off custom motorcycle: the Bell & Ross-inspired Nascafe Racer.
Shaw Harley Davidson approached Bell & Ross about a bike design project that was inspired by the watchmakers’ vision on performance, precision and engineering.
The same technical exactness that Bell & Ross rule by was taken into account with the build of the unique motorcycle.
The way that Bell & Ross develop and assemble their timepieces was reflected by the Shaw Harley Davidson master technicians when building the project bike, which is based on the Harley-Davidson FXSTB Softail Nightrain, one of the more radical Softails – long, low and naked and named by Willie G. Davidson.
Using the BR 01 Carbon – the iconic instrument produced by Bell & Ross – the Shaw Speed and Custom team mounted the timepiece in a handcrafted centre console using a machined section of aluminium.
The watch mounting positioned the timepiece in a perfect place for its original function as a professional tool for the rider.
A combination of anodised blue, carbon and stealth-like matt black custom paint was used on the bike to reflect the timepiece.
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Spain’s hotels are Europe’s most popular.
Spain is still Europe’s most popular place to stay, according to figures released February 28 by the European Union.
In total, 268 million nights were spent in Spain’s hotels by travelers last year, a rise of 6.4 percent on 2009′s figures.
The second most popular place to lay your head was Italy with 245 million nights spent in 2010, although this was a slight fall on 2009′s figures.
Germany took third place, with 229 million nights, France fourth with 196 million and the United Kingdom fifth with 166 million.
These five countries combined accounted for a whopping 70 percent of the total hotel nights spent in the European Union’s 27 member nations last year (a total of 1.6 billion), although some countries showed considerable surges in popularity.
Estonia, for instance, saw a 16.9 percent rise in stays, Denmark was up 14.9 percent and the Netherlands rose 13.4 percent.
Eurostat’s figures include both domestic and foreign travelers on both leisure and business — strip out domestic travelers to give a true value of international interest and the most popular nations become Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom and fifth place for Austria.
Europe’s hotel hotspots
countries ranked by total number of nights spent
countries ranked by total number of nights spent
1. Spain
2. Italy
3. Germany
4. France
5. United Kingdom
6. Austria
7. Greece
8. Portugal
9. Switzerland
10. The Netherlands
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents YSL’s Manifesto Spring/Summer 2011.
Yves Saint Laurent will be launching its much-awaited Spring/Summer 2011 Manifesto on 5 March.
The publication will be released in major cities including London, Paris, New York, Milan, Tokyo, Hong Kong and, for the first time, Los Angeles.
‘La Manifesto’ features images starring face of YSL‘s S/S ’11 campaign, Arizona Muse, which has been photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
It will be distributed to the first 2,000 passers by in each city and will include a special tote bag.
The S/S 2011 Manifesto will mark the eighth edition of this publication. Each Manifesto is a celebration of the latest collections from the Yves Saint Laurent brand.
The Yves Saint Laurent Manifesto was the brainchild of the luxury brand’s creative director, Stefano Pilati.
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Louis Vuitton Men’s S/S 2011 Ad Campaign.
Louis Vuitton’s ad campaign for their Spring/Summer 2011 collection is out. It stars Taiwanese actor Godfrey Gao and Doug Pickett, photographed by Cédric Buchet.
The campaign also features bags from the S/S 2011 Menswear Collection: Monogram Impression Sac Weekend, Utah Cabas Zippe, and Damier Graphite Elvis.
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents China’s middle class stampede for luxury handbags.
It could be a queue for a pop concert, a top nightclub or even the opening night at the theatre. But the hundreds of people lined up in a Hong Kong street are actually waiting to bag a bit of luxury.
“We’re looking for new handbags,” says student Celeste Law as she queues patiently alongside her friend Karina Luh outside the supermarket-sized branch of Chanel on Hong Kong’s Canton Road.
The students, both 20, already sport impressive accessories — Celeste carries a Louis Vuitton monogrammed bag, while her friend’s is from Chanel.
Both work part-time and saved for over a year to buy their trophies.
“We want them because of the famous brand,” said Celeste. “What can I say? People will focus on your bag. It’s about feeling confident.”
Even on a weekday morning, Canton Road is flooded with shoppers happy to pay a small fortune for a luxury tote, shoulder bag or evening clutch in its jumbo designer stores.
Many are from the Chinese mainland, and some even carry suitcases to get their purchases home. The market for such luxury has extended far beyond China’s roughly 900,000 US dollar millionaires.
The market is now being driven by China’s burgeoning middle class, with the truly rich going ever further upmarket — happily spending tens of thousands of dollars on the right bag.
“We believe we have only begun to scratch the surface of China’s potential,” Suhl added.
The brokerage firm CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets predicts China will become the world’s largest luxury goods market by 2020, accounting for 44 percent of worldwide sales and bigger than the entire global market is now.
Christina Ko, who blogs at HK Fashion Geek, said the Asian love of the luxury bag has become “a cultural fact. In the same way that Asians prefer rice to potatoes, they also prefer luxury handbags to non-branded ones.”
But as customers become more sophisticated, the demand is changing — bringing those who would previously have bought fakes into the market for the real thing.
“Middle class people are getting the Louis Vuitton bags, and the people who used to get them are now looking for something else,” Amanda Lee, who writes the Hong Kong-based blog Fashionography, told AFP.
Zuki Ho, a sales associate and mother, is one of the middle-class buyers boosting the industry: she owns 15 luxury handbags, and once spent HK$40,000 (US $5,135) “double her monthly salary” on a handbag.
She says she loves handbags because “I enjoy being watched on the street when I’m carrying the bag.” But she would never buy a fake — “I’m afraid of being found out,” she added.
Fakes remain big business in China, but genuine luxury is bigger.
And while women are a growing force in the Chinese designer market, men are not immune, competing fiercely over the most stylish ‘man bag’.
At the second-hand luxury handbag store Milan Station in Hong Kong’s upmarket Central district, bags sometimes sell for more than their retail price.
“People always ask for some kind of limited edition, a more expensive bag,” supervisor Jackie Lau told AFP. “People don’t feel guilty about it (buying a designer bag) because it’s like an investment.”
Customers can trade in their bags and take to the streets with a new one as often as they like, while those lucky enough to make it onto waiting lists for limited-edition bags can sell them straight to a second-hand store for a profit.
A waiting list is common for a truly coveted bag, with a wait of several months currently the norm for Mulberry’s Alexa bag.
The ultimate bag of desire remains the Hermes Birkin, which famously takes 18 hours to make by hand. The crocodile skin version uses the finest sections of hide from four crocodiles.
It costs from $9,000 to an astounding $160,000 for one of the top diamond-studded models, a Hermes spokeswoman told AFP.
Chinese women appeared immune to the “luxury shame” that affected females in other parts of the world during the global economic downturn, the consultancy Bain & Company said last year.
But while handbags are traditionally used to broadcast one’s success and good fortune, this too may be changing as more and more women join the designer-toting club.
Lee herself has a denim Chanel bag, a gift from family — but carries it “so that no one sees the double C (logo)”, she said.
“People would know (who the designer was) already if they were really into Chanel, from the shape and so on, but I feel like there’s no need to let the entire world know.”
Source: AFPrelaxnews- Photo: Reuters
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Blake Lively for Chanel Ad Campaign.
Blake Lively was hired to be the spokesmodel for Chanel Handbags print campaign and now the first image has appeared online.
The ad, shot by Karl Lagerfeld, has the Gossip Girl against a set of mirrors staring at the viewer from her reflection and carrying the new Mademoiselle bag.
In contrast to singer Lily Allen’s playful Breakfast at Tiffany’s–inspired ads, Lively’s campaign feels edgier and more sophisticated, with a moody, Hitchcockian tone.
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents “Hotel Louis Vuitton”.
Marc Jacobs spends a lot of time on the road, so what better theme for his fall-winter collection for Louis Vuitton than the goings-on inside a grand old hotel?
To the sound of elevators arriving, uniformed bellboys opened wrought-iron doors for models stepping out in tongue-and-cheek outfits inspired by, among other things, porn films from the 1940s.
“I spend a good part of my life in hotels and I like watching their secret lives, especially the ballet between call girls, mistresses and wives,” said Jacobs, 47, on the final day of Paris fashion week.
“It’s interesting to see what the women wear the day after,” added the native New Yorker who joined Louis Vuitton as creative director in 1997. “We know very well that fashion is role-playing. We can invent our own characters.”
Chambermaids were well represented, distinguished by dainty white collars on, for instance, a jacket and cropped pants with leather insets. More ladylike guests stepped out in demure coat-dresses with oversized buttons.
Then there was a transparent raincoat with the Louis Vuitton logo, worn with little crystal handcuffs. “It was sweet,” said Jacobs, cigarette in hand.
The last to check out of Hotel Vuitton was the British supermodel Kate Moss, looking leggy in a rubberised lace jacket with — often seen this season — clipped Mongolian fur sleeves.
Most looks emerged with a Louis Vuitton bag of one kind or another, as well as bellboy hats with the iconic “LV” lego that is such a money-spinner for the brand’s French corporate parent, LVMH Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton.
LVMH is owned in turn by Christian Dior, which abruptly ditched its chief designer, John Galliano, on day one of the collections amid a scandal over alleged anti-Semitic remarks uttered at a Parisian cafe.
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