"I've got derbies, bucks, wingtips, brogues and a monk -strap," said Andrew Chisholm, a 34-year-old New York-based advertising copywriter who has signed up for a shoemaking course at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The side-buckled monk-strap …

Moncler follows both Ferragamo and Brunello Cucinelli SpA (BC) in offering stock to the public as Asian demand for luxury goods fuels earnings growth and draws investors. Shares in Cucinelli, the maker of $3,195 cashmere cardigans, and Ferragamo, which …

A slow-down the housing market since the introduction of new lending rules has seen a decline in the mania for auctions, and there are signs it's spreading to Auckland's million-dollar suburbs. Real Estate Institute figures released last week showed …

For Jan-Aug UAE bought RM3.45bil worth of gold jewellery from Malaysia compared with RM2.8bil in the same period of 2012. Hong Kong and India purchased RM132mil and RM16mil of gold jewellery respectively from January to August this year, …

You can now get a gold-plated Xbox One for the hefty price of USD $9,773.99. If that's too big a number for you, you can always convert it to the British pound sterling currency of £6,000. That's the asking price at Harrods, the British luxury …

SINGAPORE Dec 16 (Reuters) – Gold edged lower on Monday as investors nervously eyed the Federal Reserve's last policy meeting of the year to gauge whether the U.S. central bank would stick to its monetary stimulus. FUNDAMENTALS. * Spot gold eased …

I am a teacher among many in a small, affluent private school. Many of the parents of our students freely, by their own … Would it be wrong to ask for each party to bring two food items and dessert? Would it be wrong to express that someone else …

… to explain," he says of his passion. "I lived in England for 10 years, and this fella had a beaten-up old Bentley in the shed and I said to him, what makes you keep that Bentley there, and he said, I just like old motors, and there's no more sense …

One of the "boys" was Woolf Barnato, a South African diamond magnate who not only raced but also bought into Bentley Motors with a majority shareholding that saw him become chairman. Barnato entered Le Mans on three occasions — 1928, 1929 and …