Luxury good

While so many are dead and suffering, cloistered celebrities have spent the pandemic posting away on Instagram, exposing its classist rot.

Marie Kondo made her name by telling us to get rid of stuff. Now she wants to buy things at her KonMari online store. But can a $98 gemstone water bottle really bring happiness?

No one really needs high-priced, luxury goods, but there are many factors which make fancy and costly items attractive.

High-dollar rides are cheap in California compared to Shanghai, so entrepreneurs pay straw buyers cash to snap them up and send ’em overseas. Automakers want to stop them, but dealers don’t want to play cop.

For spring, Altuzarra comes slightly undone.

Apparently the super-wealthy have run out of ways to spend money. A new lingerie line will offer its customers undergarments made with 24-karat-gold thread.