Apple targets Watch wearers with a taste for the exclusive

In a break from its tumultuous product launches, Apple is offering high-end customers its 18-carat gold Watch Edition with sapphire display for $17,000

Chanel testing the e-commerce approach

Chanel set to launch an e-commerce option next year. Inevitably, French luxury house Chanel could not resist the online progress and the opportunities offered by online retailing. Chanel joins Fendi, the latest luxury brand to embrace e-commerce. At the brand’s Salzburg-New York event the maison unveiled that it is set to launch an e-commerce option … Read more

Boxster Spyder – the lightest and the most powerful Boxster to date

The new Boxster Spyder debuts at 2015 New York International Auto Show. This roadster is not the typical roadster and not the typical Boxster, you’d expect. The new Boxster Spyder is a radical return to the origins of the roadster. A new top model in Boxster family was announced by Porsche. The automotive company debuts … Read more

Net-a-Porter merger with Yoox: marriage of very different high-end fashion sellers

While one presents a chic edit of beautifully shot and styled designer pieces, the other – to the unitiated – appears to offer a more chaotic shopping experience

Fur trade booming after swing from fashion faux pas to catwalk favourite

Figures show farmers stepping up production to meet soaring demand for mink, sable, fox and ferret pelts

Dolce and Gabbana are unafraid of spats, but IVF row divides family of fans

The Italian fashion partnership rooted in Dolce’s Sicilian style and Gabbana’s graphic inventiveness are unrepentantly bound to family