Because Americans have essentially taken cheese and turned it from a luxury item – a rare treat to be mindfully enjoyed, and savored – into an ingredient, observed New York Times reporter Michael Moss in his book on the processed food industry, “Sugar …

Online luxury goods retailer Net-a-Porter just launched a brand new app to keep you in the know about the latest trends and must-have investment pieces. The Netbook and it's a social show-and-tell and shopping site. You can build your own fashion …

The man who just bought The Washington Post thinks newspapers will some day become a luxury item like horses. “Some day. I don't know how many years in the future. It could be decades. But I think printed newspapers on actual paper maybe a luxury …

The €1 levy on wine, which was introduced in last December's Budget, has created more than €45m in tax revenue during the past eight months. The figures were revealed during a parliamentary question to the Finance Minister Michael Noonan from Kerry …

The €1 levy on wine, which was introduced in last December's Budget, has created more than €45m in tax revenue during the past eight months. The figures were revealed during a parliamentary question to the Finance Minister Michael Noonan from Kerry …

This growth in the wealth of the rich has boosted luxury spending in the world which provided a growth opportunity to the providers of luxury goods and services. Better times are expected to come and the number of the rich people in the world will …

The Comité Colbert, the French luxury goods trade association, added Ducasse to its roster in June alongside two other French ambassadors of haute gastronomy, Joël Robuchon and Guy Savoy. It has been a busy year for Ducasse. He has also taken over …

A: Luxury items reach a point of the population where people have a certain income that isn't as affected by those downturns in the economy as your upper-middle class. There is still a market for those people. Q: What attracted you to chandeliers? A …

There are a lot of pretty good items going up for auction, both live and silent. For example, Let There Be Art features not only works of art, but art classes as well. Guilty Pleasures features wine, spa gift certificates and luxury items, while Run …