Live and silent auctions of luxury items kept partygoers busy during cocktails and a four-course dinner catered by the Ritz-Carlton. A spokesman for the event said they expected to raise approximately $200,000. Since 1906, Cleveland Sight Center has …

In 1873, Le Bon Marché founder Aristide Boucicault coated his store with nothing but stark-white luxury items right after the holiday rush with his first edition of Mois de Blanch — Month of White — and has since been received as an annual shopping …

The reality is that she went to Russia in the spring of 1855 to set up a provisions store that sold luxury items (such as tinned lobster) to officers, and a restaurant and bar where they could dine and drink champagne. It was hardly fare for rank and …

Initially, those luxury items carried a 1 percent sales tax, with a maximum tax of just $80 on airplanes. Both the tax rate and the caps grew in subsequent years, to 3 percent and $1,500, respectively, in 1989, according to the North Carolina …

Airlines, tour groups, tourist sites and luxury brands have all capitalized from China's new wanderlust. It's not a surprise anymore that luxury retailers in Western cities have added Mandarin speakers to service Chinese buyers. But that bonanza may be …

Funding for art programs is often among the first items on the chopping block as governments grapple with budget cuts, and Spacey later told The Huffington Post that he hoped to raise awareness of why art matters before an audience that could make a …

Luxury goods stocks fell on Monday on the back of the political unrest, with industry leader Swatch Group <UHR.VX> closing down 2 percent, LVMH down 1.5 percent and Richemont down 1.7 percent. European stocks as a whole <.FTEU3> fell 0.4 percent.

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I stand with the people fighting for higher wages so they can afford to live, but not necessarily support raising to $15 across the board. Perhaps it should be raised to $15 an hour for full-time workers with a college degree that have to settle for a …