I came across this a long time ago and meant to post, but never did (and their frequent mention in Sex and the City: The Movie scooped me in bringing the news to the masses):
http://www.bagborroworsteal.com/ui/howitworks#ways_to_shop
These guys let you rent high-end bags on the (kinda) cheapo. Cool concept. I wonder how many people are doing it.
I am catching up on last week’s Economist and came across a small article on Blue Nile, an online middle-man for jewelry sales (mostly engagement rings). I remember when Blue Nile launched in the late 1990s for a couple reasons, including the fact that it was crazy you could buy high-end jewelry online. Yes, I will be sure to point my grandchildren to this blog post.
Anyway, here was an interesting and amusing snippet from the article:
Some 85% of purchases from Blue Nile are made by men. On average they pay $6,200 per engagement ring and take three weeks to make up their minds. Yet the majority of visitors to the Blue Nile site are women, who browse and e-mail pictures of the stone and ring they want to friends for comment, and ultimately to the target fiance-to-be.
I’m way late on this, which is to say that I’ve been busy and not much struck me as awesome from the recent fashion weeks. Although, Yves Saint Laurent‘s collection won major points in my (limited) book. Take a look at my favorite piece on the far right in the first image (Photo from NYT). The second image is also ace (also taken from NYT).
