FASHION FLUB: Luxury goods firm Michael Kors is seeing a strong demand for its watches and accessories: Sales rose 54 percent in the most recent quarter. What's not so strong is the profit on those items. The firm 'fessed up to lower margins and rising …

One reason for such large duty-free purchases has to do with the fact that luxury items in China are usually imports and cost a lot more there, according to Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt, director of the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute. If you plan …

Apple's move comes less than a year after the iPhone and iPad inventor hired Angela Ahrendts, a respected executive who helped mold Burberry into the popular luxury brand it is today. In recent weeks, Google lured fashion and marketing executive Ivy …

A stream of new quarterly reports from luxury–goods icons including Tiffany & Co., Nordstrom, Michael Kors and Estee Lauder have topped expectations and have demonstrated the persistence of a separation between how the rich and the non-rich feel and …

… £1 million by selling luxury goods on eBay that have been seized from criminals. The Leicestershire force has sold more than 2,000 items, such as luxury cars, designer clothing, jewellery and computers, since it opened the online 'shop' in …

… and now smartphones. Antares1. Touted as being in “a class of its own” dubbed the 'techno-luxury segment' by its makers, the Antares smartphone is hoping to draw fans of luxury items towards a smartphone that has beauty, brawns and brains.

Apple's move comes less than a year after the iPhone and iPad inventor hired Angela Ahrendts, a respected executive who helped mold Burberry into the popular luxury brand it is today. In recent weeks, Google lured fashion and marketing executive Ivy …

“What we aimed to create in our inventory was a selection that included both high-end, luxury products as well as affordable, household brand names,” she says. Any retailer is welcome to inquire about featuring its wares in the app, she says. In …

Students enroll in classes without the intention of actually completing a degree, but collect the cash and then spend the financial aid on luxury items. • Fraudsters steal identities and sign up for classes these unsuspecting students will never attend …