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Luxury Knitting at NYC's String

Sometimes I think the word "luxury" gets batted around a bit too much ("luxury water"), but I was curious when I saw a small ad for String, a luxury knitting boutique in NYC, in an NYC lifestyle magazine. While the Web site isn't the most refined, it seems the store itself has everything the serious knitter would want, and gets its luxury reputation for selling cashmere and other refined fibers (more than 80 kinds of yarn); needles; patterns for high-end, expensive projects, including clothing, accessories and even home decor; and perhaps its Upper East Side location. You can shop online for anything knit-necessary, including the store's new book, Luxury Knitting, by owner Linda Morse, or visit at 130 E. 82nd St. Also check out String's blog for store happenings, and the gallery below for a few of the items the store sells.

Gallery: Luxury Knitting

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Bluefly Goes After The Younger Shopper

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel

Online retailer Bluefly.com is doing its best to keep shoppers coming back. Over the last couple years they have run racy television ads to lure consumers, now after some new financing they have launched a new boutique within the main retailer. B*fly is a new boutique aimed at the younger crowd. It carries trendy separates for men and women that focus on contemporary trends at reasonable prices. The new store mirrors a move that some bricks and mortar stores such as Barney's with their Co-op and Neiman Marcus with their Cusp stores. Will it be enough to boost the online retailer, which has reported a weak fourth quarter and has released lowered expectations for the coming year?

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Banana Republic Goes Upscale with BR Monogram

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel

Banana Republic is stepping up the luxury by launching their newest line called BR Monogram. The new high-end collection will have all the goodness of traditional Banana Republic, but with a boost in the quality of the fabrics used and better tailoring. This quality upgrade will also mean a pricing upgrade (BR Monogram items cost an average of 30-40% more than the rest of Banana's items) plus there will hopefully be stand-alone BR Monogram boutiques around the country very soon -- the first one just opened in New York.

Gallery: BR Monogram

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Tags: apparel, banana republic, BananaRepublic, br, br monogram, BrMonogram, clothes, clothing, entertainment-awards, monogram

Prepare for the $35 Movie Ticket

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Services

It seems like the price of movie tickets is getting ever more expensive, but would you be willing to pay even more if it meant luxury amenities like plush reserved seating with waiter service and upscale food and drink options? I would! At least sometimes anyway. It would totally make going to a movie feel more like going to a "show."

Village Roadshow Gold Class Cinemas is opening a luxury movie theater later this year in Chicago that will offer just those amenities, along with others like seating limited to 40 people and special parking privileges, for ticket prices of just $35 each.

That's pretty steep for a movie, but they're not expecting that to deter the luxury crowd -- plans are already in the works for 20+ more Gold Class Cinemas around the country by 2010.

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Tags: cinema, entertainment-awards, gold class, GoldClass, movie, movies, village roadshow, village roadshow gold class cinema, VillageRoadshow, VillageRoadshowGoldClassCinema

SkyMall To Offer Inflight Shopping

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wings

If you fly then you have probably seen the SkyMall catalog, that oddly curated assemblage of items from other catalogs designed to make sure that even while in flight you can contemplate purchases. Now you can actually buy the items while in flight. SkyMall and a company called GuestLogix have partnered to deliver a new on-board shopping service. Passengers will be able to buy products inflight using a handheld electronic device from GuestLogix that can accept the swipe of a credit card or scan a barcode to complete the purchase.

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Fashion Island Hits the World

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

For years Southern California has had a mall called Fashion Island. Now there will be a real fashion island in what is becoming one of the top shopping spots in the world, Dubai. The Isla Moda will be located in the set of islands known as The World. The island will include a fashion resort, residential villas, haute couture boutiques and hotels. The idea is to create a comprehensive fashion experience; guests will even be able to have a personal style concierge to help with selecting clothing or a design concierge to help with interior design ideas. The Hotel Moda will have approximately 250 rooms and serviced apartments. The island will also host fashion events although so far no designers have been associated with the project. The first stage is expected to begin before the end of the year so we will have to wait a while for Fashion Week at Isla Moda.

[via Casa Dubai]

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Tags: dubai, entertainment-awards, fashion island, isla moda, IslaModa, the world

The Slow Death of the Shopping Mall

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

When I was growing up the shopping mall was the place to hang out, but the mall is quickly becoming a relic from the 1970s and 1980s. In fact, the last enclosed shopping mall in the U.S. was built in 2006. The trend these days is for open-air shopping in a center that offers a mix of high-end national retailers, restaurants and entertainment. Instead of being devoted to shopping exclusively these centers tap into the "shopping as a lifestyle" trend that is popular with all level of consumers. It seems to be a direct reversal of the trend in the 1980s in which the strip mall centers and standalone stores found themselves suffering. At that time many retailers moved in to malls simply because that was where everyone was.

Some malls in the United States are currently in a state of decline. The first thing that happens often is that the big department store anchor closes down. This often forces the smaller stores out of business because there is less foot traffic. For stores without an exterior entrance it is particularly hard to lure shoppers in. The problem is so virulent there are even websites such as Deadmalls.com which pay homage to the fallen.

A fascinating article in the Economist also chronicles the dying mall syndrome and also mentions Rick Caruso, the man currently tearing up the streets near my home in Glendale,CA. Glendale is already home to a huge mall, the Glendale Galleria. Right next to it, Caruos is building a 16-acre development that includes a public square and apartments. Caruso has already created a similar center at The Grove in Los Angeles and is planning another in Arcadia, CA. What is particularly interesting about the article in the Economist is the comparison between Caruso and Victor Gruen, the creator of the first enclosed shopping mall in the U.S. Both were looking to create an idealized city center that would offer shopping but also a place to converge, a sort of modern town square. Gruen's enclosed malls tended to pull people of out downtown areas and into the suburban areas. Now Caruso comes in years later offering an idealized version of a city street causing people to abandon the malls. I wonder if in another 20 years the open-air shopping centers will go through the same life cycle.

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Miami To Get A Posh New Theater

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Events

Sure, you've got your own home theater but every once in a while you need to get out and see a movie in the theater. In Los Angeles we've got the Arclight. Soon the Dolphin Mall will soon offer Miami- Dade County's first premium movie theater with dining, cocktails, reserved luxury seating and digital projection. The 20,000-square-foot cinema will be down the hall from the existing Cobb Theatres Dolphin 19 theater complex and will have five digital screens, a restaurant, an outdoor dining patio and a bar. Each theater has just 75 to 125 leather seats with wood table armrests. There is a tapas style menu and you can order a glass of wine or cocktail before the movie starts. Tickets will be in the $15 to $18 range and it is expected to open next spring.

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The Billionaire's Cocktail

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Spirits

First off, it's not a cocktail that costs a billion dollars (although I'm sure there's one out there, somewhere...) but instead a cocktail designed for a billionaire. That would be an intimidating job I think, to create a drink especially for a specific, very rich, person. Calvin Ayre, billionaire founder of Bodog.com is that person, and The Liquid Muse is the creator of his signature drink, Billion-Ayre's Bet.

Based on his choice spirit Bombay Sapphire, the drink also includes grapefruit juice, Campari, lime, and champagne. See the complete recipe here, and think: what would your signature cocktail be?

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Chiringuito Cocktail Shaker

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Spirits

Make your cocktails shaken with a twist - a twisted shaker, anyway. The Chiringuito Cocktail Shaker was designed for Alessi by Ron Arad. It is made of 18/10 stainless steel and is intentionally twisted to "mimic the motion of the liquid inside." Whether this actually helps your drink to blend better remains to be seen, but it certainly looks good while its in use. Price: $140.

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Tags: alessi, arad, cocktail, cocktails, entertainment-awards, ron arad, shaker, shakers

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