The Luxury E-tail Boom
Sameer Reddy is a Special Correspondent for Newsweek International, to which he contributes two columns - Top Shelf, which deals with luxury, and Tendencies, a survey of trends in culture. He also contributes features on fashion, lifestyle and luxury to Newsweek, Departures, T, and Vogue India, among others. Based out of Berlin, he edits a recently launched blog about aesthetics, www.the-comment.com, while consuming large amounts of sausage and gluten-free pretzels.
Department stores may be hurting, but Sameer Reddy reports that high-end e-commerce sites such as the Outnet, Yoox, and Vente Privee are packed with customers looking for a steal.
A Gift From the IRS?
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
Is the Tax Fairy giving you some extra cash this year? Why spend that refund on canned goods when you can buy this season's signature pieces? Renata Espinosa shows how to splurge.
London's New Look
Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.
At London Fashion Week, the biggest designers drew inspiration from space travel, tropical storms, and neon clubs. View our gallery of runway highlights.
What Rich People Don't Want You to Know About Their Spending
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Hide the Hermès orange and the Tiffany blue-today's wealthy consumers are asking for unmarked bags to disguise their luxury purchases. The Daily Beast investigates.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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