Retailers have gone to the extreme, pushing out lines of cologne like the Sexy Beast Dog Perfume for $65, Martha Stewart-brand dog beds for $50 and BK Atelier's luxury poop-bag holder for $39.99. Of course … But that's just the tip of Peyton's posh …

You can add to that conspicuous consumption, the luxury lifestyle, fundamentalist Christian religion, and hard-core devotion to that other American religion, football. If a person is interested in seeing how all these currents play out, Dallas is a …

As if forking out for a diving holiday isn't indulgent enough, you can now kit yourself out in the luxury deep-water gear available exclusively through Gwyneth's lifestyle website, Goop. Totally rad: In Gwyneth's world, we would all wear gold when out …

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Bottom line: The all-new-for-2013 Land Rover Range Rover is an elegantly beautiful, marvelously competent off-road vehicle that makes more sense as a collector's item than it does for daily transportation. Buy it as a functional art piece. Ride …

In comparison, they note that the Great Recession group also showed a bit less interest in luxury items than the students who were surveyed in the mid-2000s. For instance, 41 percent of high school seniors questioned 2008-2010 said it was important to …

Although business at Egyptian remained steady, the 2008 economic downturn put a heavy dent in everyone's pocketbook as people began scratching off luxury items related to health among other things, Vesciglio said. “It's a difficult business,” Vesciglio …

Consumers of goods and services in our society, where today service providers and businesspeople are allergic to ethics and good standards can simply be described as unfortunate lot whose plight call for urgent attention and action. It is for this …

"We know a lot of luxury brands have softened especially in Chinese mainland probably because of the logos," says Smythson CEO Andy Janowski. "We have been seeing, conversely, strong business in Hong Kong and globally for several years. Perhaps …