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...propose on Valentine's Day, not everybody is willing to pay thousands of dollars for a piece of jewelry they've only seen online. Chehi bought his $6,000 platinum band and princess-cut diamond from blue nile.com the largest online jeweler, which is sending it to him via courier. It's perhaps a sign of the buying public's increased confidence in e-commerce that online jewelry sales are growing fast, with more than $1 billion in U.S. sales in 2002 and $1.3 billion expected this year, according to Jupiter Research...
...post-Internet-boom, post-9/11 world, consumer sensibilities have changed--permanently, some argue--and the economics have been dreadful. But for store designers, these are very good times indeed. Along the moneyed paths of Madison Avenue and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, in the Ginza and on the Via Condotti, stonemasons, carpenters, electricians and designers are assembling new sales wagons for Ferragamo, Tod's, Louis Vuitton, Comme des Garcons, Jil Sander, Prada and other luxe labels. They are exquisite spaces, and they are more luxury priced than ever, now that the stores have commissioned such prizewinning architects...
...Personal Signpost: A database of local information, directions and places of interest that can be accessed via mobile phone...
Like its cousin the sneaker, the tracksuit came into the fashion mainstream via the street, through hip-hop and rave culture. The sweat suit became a B-boy uniform partly because disco gear did not lend itself to the gymnastics of break dancing. Another influence: music legends like Bob Marley, who adopted sweats as a uniform (and may have been drawing on the much iconized image of tracksuit-clad John Carlos and Tommie Smith giving black-power salutes at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...
Faced with longer check-in lines, lengthy security screening and more airline baggage restrictions, many passengers are sending their bags ahead via luggage-shipping services. Companies such as Luggage Express, Virtual Bellhop, Sports Express and Skycap International will pick up your luggage at your home, office or hotel and deliver it to your destination overnight. A 40-lb. suitcase flown from New York City to Los Angeles costs $98 to $131--less if you can send the bags two or three days before you depart. And if you really aren't in a rush, ship that bag full of dirty...