VERSACE COMES BACK TO FINANCIAL LIFE October 14, 2010 The fashion house known for its brash designs has come back from the near-dead, and is eyeing re-entry into Japan. The full-year revenue of the house – whose chief designer is Donatella Versace – will exceed €280m, well beyond forecasts. The reversal of fortunes comes as luxury goods conglomerate LMVH announces record profit.
POCKET SQUARES FOR A GOOD CAUSE October 14, 2010 Everywhere you go right now you see men sporting a raffish flash of colour in the breast pocket. Pocket squares are the suiting accessory du jour, and if you get one of these cool checked numbers from Brooks Brothers –?including its City shop – you’ll be donating to charity too, as £5 from every sale [...]
OUT OF OFFICE October 14, 2010 WINTER HAND CLINIC John Lewis Oxford Street has teamed up with luxury skincare brand Elemis to launch free Winter Hand Clinics to run throughout November and into December in-store. The bespoke consultations will be led by an expert Elemis skin therapist who will give customers top tips and advice on how to protect their hands [...]
Mobile luxuries October 13, 2010 On the face of it, the idea of phone as status symbol runs fairly contrary to the general reality of the phone market now: anybody can own an iPhone, Blackberry or any one of the plethora of good-looking, ingeniously engineered smartphones out there, and most of us do. But there are those looking for something [...]
Google to compile financial data October 13, 2010 Google is planning to launch a new measure of inflation collated from online shopping data, to be known as the Google Price Index (GPI). It’s part of a public data project that will see the search giant release new ways for users to collate information from a multitude of sources. A list of the top [...]
helicopter drone uses ipod joystick October 13, 2010 Visitors to the recent Tokyo Games show were treated to a special demonstration of the Parrot AR Drone, a toy helicopter (pictured) that users can control wirelessly via their iPhone or iPad. The drone has two cameras mounted on its body, which is suspended between four helicopter blades that give it instant manoeuvrability in any [...]
facebook offers more security October 13, 2010 Facebook is to offer temporary log-ins for use on public computers. It works by having users text the letters “otp” to the number 32665. It replies with a temporary password. However, the system will require users to register their mobile phone to their Facebook account. In addition to this feature, the site will now also [...]
OUT OF OFFICE October 13, 2010 DATING COMEDY NERVE’S LONDON PREMIERE Nerve, a comedy about love and dating, has already earned plaudits in New York. In London it will hit a nerve, too, with the story of an online dating rookie whose date has had far too much experience. Together they explore their fears and expectations, their past and their vulnerabilities. [...]
The grisly taste of her screams October 13, 2010 SCREAM BY NIGEL MCCRERY Quercus, £20 A more gruesome beginning to a book you couldn’t ask for. A woman is bound, with her kneecaps exposed, as a ruthless killer tells her how he’s going to carve through her knee bones, one after the other, before moving onto other parts. Her screams are immense but pointless. [...]
The art world heats up once more October 13, 2010 AS an army of glamorous art industry movers and shakers traipsed into Frieze Art Fair’s marquee yesterday, a young woman was standing outside distributing paper leaflets for an upcoming exhibition. Not that surprising perhaps – some galleries need all the help they can get publicising themselves – except that the gallery in question was the [...]