Perfect Handbag

from Fashion Trends Super modeling new designer

How to Choose a Perfect Handbag I have a lot of women friends and they are engaged in different kinds of jobs. Most of them should face various of people in their daily work, so how to make themselves look nice and beauty comes to be a serious matter. Handbag has been an indispensible accouterment for young girls and ladies for several decades. Sometimes my friends ask me to recommend a reliable company where they can buy top-quality handbags, wallets or other leathercraft.

In the past, I also don’t know which company is credible. I accidentally find the website it is a reasonably professional company that sale nearly all brands of handbags of the most vogue designs. I have never seen a website that is analogous to this one. I attempted to buy a Hermes Birkin handbag several days after I found this company. Originally, I was suspicious of the quality of this Birkin handbag. But I realized I was wrong when I received my bag. The quality of the handbag is fairly good, the design and the color are my favorite. So now if someone asks my suggestion on buying a vogue and top-quality handbag, I will promptly recommend www.luxurynavi.com for her. In my experience, the well designed handbag is more durable than fake ones and the well designed handbags are made of well-chosen leather, the color and luster are all better than fake ones. Thus it can make a lady or girl look more attractive.

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How to Care For Your Designer Handbag

By Sher Matsen

Whether your designer handbag is a Louis Vuitton, a Gucci, or any other designer, it is important to take proper care of it. Proper care will give you many years of beauty and use in return.

Most leather designer bags are not treated. This allows the bags to age gracefully and with the character expected from a designer bag, making them distinct and unique. Keep your bag away from makeup, food, or any other oil based product which can stain. When you are not using your bag, store it in a protective cloth container. The very first thing you should do is treat your handbag with a leather protector to prevent stains from setting in. No matter how careful you are, at some point your likely to leave a mark on it and the leather protection will not allow it to soak in so you’ll be able to more easily remove it.

What to do if you get a stain. Here’s some helpful tips worth trying.

Cleaning leather can be a bit difficult. Leather is rugged and lasts a long time but it does stain quite easily. Depending on the type of leather and the finish, will depend on the cleaning method used.

If a handbag is tanned, and pigmented you can try to wipe the stain with a soft damp clothe. If this doesn’t work, try a leather cleaner specifically made for the type of leather you have. Follow the directions carefully. Once the spot has been removed it is a good idea to re-condition the leather to restore the natural luster. Always test a leather product in inconspicuous spot before applying to your entire handbag.

If the leather has become discolored there are leather products on the market that can help restore color. Try to match the product as close as possible to the natural color of your handbag.

If your not sure, we would recommend you take it to a professional leather cleaner who will have the expertise to remove the stain.

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Unleash Your Distinct Style with a Stunning Designer Handbag

By Sofia Saliem

Fashion that never goes out of style. That's what you hear on the streets when you strut with a stunning designer handbag. Fashionable and functional. Two words define the modern handbags and even if they cost a bomb, women simply adore them. Don't you? Most, if not all expensive designer handbags are made by hand and the limited edition versions are highly sought after. Who doesn't want to be the only person on the walkway carrying the only handbag model in town? Look at all those eyes peering at you with nifty glances. Awesome feeling isn't it?

What if your friends talk about it, give flattering remarks and envy you carrying it? That would be an ultimate confidence booster which is why a stunning designer handbag always holds a special place. Top it up with a matching outfit and you'll be queen for the day. Also, it seems to people that you got money and are not afraid to spend it. You see on television how those gorgeous "celebs" strut around with eye-catching designer labels not many can afford. It'll raise your social status some might say.

Whatever it is, to have one as a part of your fashion arsenal in your wardrobe drives home an ultra-good feeling about yourself. How about fakes? Well, if you really and truly want to unleash a distinct style of your own, getting a fake handbag will plunge you the other way. If you can ill-afford it, then you do not have to resort to fakes unless you don't care of course. Again, fashion that never goes out of style. That's what defines a stunning designer handbag.

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From Caitlin Tew

A handbag can make or break an outfit. Wear a fun bag out with friends to show your personality. Or carry the ultimate bag to work and impress your boss. But if you choose the wrong bag, your look suffers.

How to Choose the Right Handbag
Just like a great pair of jeans, a handbag should fit your body type. The shape of a bag shouldn't match your figure: instead, choose the opposite of your body type. For example, pick a bigger bag if you're a tall and thin woman. Don't be afraid to try the handbag on at the store. Get a feel for how it fits. Pass on anything that makes you uncomfortable. Basic designs and styles will last you through the years while maintaining a sense of up-to-date style.

Fakes vs. Lookalikes
Fakes are complete knockoffs (with fake logos most of the time) and lookalikes are pieces that are merely inspired by the original (like many department store handbag lines). Fakes may seem great at the time of purchase--they're cheap and have the designer label--but counterfeiters have ties to all types of crime. How to know if your buy is fake and not the real thing? If the deal seems too good to be true (i.e. Coach bag for $20) it probably is. Learn more about fakes.

Get the Low-Down on Designer Bags
Most designers have websites for you to check out their merchandise. Go ahead and get an idea of which bag you like, and if it's in your price range, get it. But if it's a little too expensive, designers have specialty outlet stores and there are also plenty of websites that offer legitimate designer bags for a reasonable price.


'It' Bags
Now that you know the difference between fakes and lookalikes, you'll want to study up on which styles are hot in the fashion world. "It" bags -- expensive designer bags that get must-have status each season -- don't come cheap. Remember that fashion goes in cycles, so hold on to these pricey investments: they'll be back in style in a few years.

Hobo Bags
Style yourself like a chic street urchin with a crescent-shaped bag known as a hobo bag. This basic style of bag flatters almost all figures. It's found big and small, or just right in the middle (also known as perfect). They range from boho designs to classic, structured designs.

Hobo Purses, Handbags and Tote Bags are Smart and Comfortable to Carry

By Lynn Donn

Hobo purses, handbags and tote bags are designed to fit snugly around your shoulder, so they’re comfortable to carry around all day, and the rounded shape means you can easily fit everything you need to carry. The hobo purse style is becoming a really hot fashion item, and you’ll be amazed at the wonderful range of purses, tote bags and handbags which are easily available to purchase online.

You’ll find them in luxurious Italian leather and soft, buttery suede, chic and stylish modern designs, cool and casual totes, and unique creations with printed photographs, embroidery, and all kinds of weird and wonderful decorative clasps and closures. You can choose from a plain and simple design, or one which features handy pockets and compartments. Good quality hobo purses and bags range in price from around twenty dollars up to three hundred or so, and they make a wonderful gift for someone special.

Choosing hobo purses, handbags and tote bags.

There is such a vast range to choose from, the hardest thing is knowing where to start. Most people tend to think of hobo purses and handbags and as a casual type of bag, but there are some very stylish and elegant designs which are perfect for business. Nothing makes a big impression quite like an elegantly designed handbag or purse in genuine Italian leather. A suede hobo purse or handbag has a more relaxed, casual feel and looks fantastic with a soft, layered fashion look. If you’re very petite, there are tiny hobo purses, tote bags and handbags which are cute, sexy and stylish, and will suit you perfectly.

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Designer desires

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by Emily Wax

Amid buttery leather handbags and US$200 (HK$1,560) torn jeans, Anuga Shah and her friends were shopping in Ahmedabad's newest mall in Gujarat recently, proudly humming that they were "spendy." "This week, it's all about Tommy," Shah, 26, cooes as she pets hooded sweaters inside a glitzy Tommy Hilfiger boutique. "In India today, we love to be branded. I'll spend my whole salary for a really swank brand and eat idli (steamed rice cakes) for the rest of the month."

India's growing middle and upper- middle classes have recently given rise to self-described "brand freaks," who crave the latest luxury goods. In Ahmedabad - where the father of the nation, Mohandas Gandhi, once located his austere ashram and rejected foreign textiles - it is Chanel, not homespun cloth, that generates excitement these days. India's elite have long enjoyed luxury goods imported from the West. In recent months, though, Indians who cannot afford US$600 sunglasses - but who still have some disposable income - have been splurging. Designers, including Prada, Jimmy Choo, Gucci and Louis Vuitton, as well as brands such as Rolls-Royce and Mont Blanc, have either set up shop or beefed up operations.

Last month marked the opening of two of the country's highest-end malls. At New Delhi's Select City Walk, women nearly caused a stampede as they crowded into a MAC cosmetics store in search of a popular brand of eye shadow. Women said they were thrilled that their husbands did not have to go abroad to shop for them anymore. "This year, India really unleashed the brand beast," says Saloni Nangia, associate vice president of Technopak, a marketing research firm that estimates the middle and upper-middle classes at eight million to nine million people and growing, in a country whose population is 1.1 billion.

"It used to be just five-star hotels that had the high-end shops," she says. "But now India is actually getting upgraded with both premium brands and very high-end luxury. The right real estate is here now and the brand-freaks market is only going to get bigger." In the fall, Vogue, the bible of high- end fashion, launched its thick Indian edition, the most glamorous in a long line of magazines from Elle to Marie Claire that now have editions in the country.

"This is the year of the Indian woman as a confident brand-buyer, not abroad but finally at home," says Bandana Tewari, fashion features editor at Vogue's Indian edition. "I find it refreshing that we have choices and a better lifestyle riding the optimism of the economy." In a country with a rich tradition of textiles, Indian haute couture is flourishing, too.

"India still loves its colorful silk saris. We haven't gone to wearing black and white like the rest of Asia," Tewari says. "We refuse to change our intrinsic personality. We are remembering that India has always had superbly expensive jewelry, and insanely luxurious hand-woven seven-yard saris that are 800 years old. We were sprinkling saffron on our dessert before we got caviar." Such enthusiasm is not shared by everyone. For many, the rising popularity of Western brands has served only to highlight the stark gulf between the rich and poor in a country where the majority still live in abject poverty. Along a main highway in Ahmedabad, Tag Heuer billboards jockey for space with towering posters of Mont Blanc pens; below, barefoot children beg for money.

"We are changing a lot and too quickly as a nation," laments Vijay Bhai, 81, the caretaker of Gandhi ashram. "Everyone should remember that some jobs are good when the malls go up. But we shouldn't forget what's important in Indian life. Gandhi was a humble man who wore a loincloth when he went to shatter the British empire, not some glitzy brand-name clothes." THE WASHINGTON POST

The Incomparable Leather Handbag

By Scott Nichols

Both men and women have loved leather for centuries. It is no different today. That is why despite the opposition of activists to the use of animal products, leather handbags are still the most popular fashion accessory today, next only to shoes. Demand for and production of quality leather handbags continue unabated all over the world. Leather handbags are not only a fashion statement, they are a status symbol.

Leather Handbags Make Anyone Look Good

Men are also avid fans of leather handbags, not just women, although the leather handbags for each of the sexes are not interchangeable. There is no doubt that leather handbags can be elegant enhancements to anyone’s appearance, and to most styles of clothing. No accessory is as easy to match or coordinate. Leather handbags go with practically any kind of outfit.

Most leather products, including leather handbag, do not come purely by themselves, but in combination with other materials like nylon, denim and corduroy. So it is with leather handbags, which sometimes are fitted with such features as key rings, safety sets and what-have-you. The end product is invariably one that makes anyone look better. Leather handbags are durable and won't ever go out of style.

Put two women of approximately equal beauty and social status side by side. Give one woman a leather handbag, and the other woman a handbag made of another material. Which one do you think will surpass the other in looks? In all probability, the one handed a leather bag. Leather is simply fascinating, handsome and timeless.

Caring for Your Leather Handbag

Beautiful things often come at a price. In the case of leather handbags, it’s mainly not cost, but the demands of maintenance. Leather handbags are leather products that do require periodic cleaning. Leather handbags need to be polished and to be protected from moisture or soaking, and should be washed only with a special leather cleaner. If you can’t afford or find a cleaner specifically for use on leather, use small amounts of petrol on a soft cloth to wipe away dirt and grime from the hide. The leather handbag will regain its sheen in time at all.

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Italian Handbag Leather Purse Styles

By Morgan Ross

An Italian handbag leather purse is a wonderful item for women that are busy and do not want to change purses all the time. Italian leather purses are of high design, exquisite beauty and the top quality in handbags. They can take the everyday wear and tear, where other handbags that are not made of Italian leather fall apart.

Italian handbag leather purses are an extremely important and popular accessory and every woman has her own likes and dislikes when it comes to purse types. Some women prefer shoulder straps whereas others like clutch purses. Some want a handbag with many compartments where others like just one main compartment. Choosing an Italian handbag leather purse is all personal preference.

When choosing a style of Italian handbag leather purse, body shape does make a difference in the style you should consider. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Plus size women: Stay away from tiny purses. Longer straps and a little larger and wider than average purse is a good choice.

2. Petite women: Handbags that are shorter and fit against the body are best.

3. Tall and Slender women – Any style of Italian handbag leather purse is perfect but make sure it is large or oversize. If you prefer a small purse, buy one that fits under your shoulders.

4. Curvy women: Buy a medium sized purse that accentuates your waist by hitting just above it.

When going out somewhere special, choose an Italian handbag leather purse that suits the occasion as the wrong handbag can ruin a perfect outfit. The internet is a great place to purchase Italian handbag leather purses from authentic top designers at less than normal retail prices.

You have access to some of the most famous designer names and latest up to date styles available. An Italian handbag leather purse is an accessory that not only makes your outfit complete but helps create the look you want to achieve.

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Our purses, our selves

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The Purse and the Person exhibit offers bags full of previously undocumented women’s history

By Ellen Snortland

My inner women's-history geek leaped for joy when I found out that the Pasadena Museum of History is highlighting the most public and personal possession that a woman has: her purse. Men need not feel excluded since many men now carry purses too. I know, I know. Just as boys' dolls are called “action figures,” to avoid the dreaded taint of “sissified” toys, some men may cringe when their “bags,” whether they are briefcases or knapsacks, are referred to as purses, but purses they are nonetheless! Hey, GI Joe is a doll, OK? A briefcase is a square purse.

I would like to encourage people, men and women alike, to get out and see the “The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women's Purses,” exhibition. You have until the end of March —which also happens to be Women's History Month — to take a stroll down history lane from the perspective of our purses, our selves. If you don't carry a purse, you at least are intimately related to a few purse carriers. A purse may well have been your first toy, since most mothers know how entertaining they are to a child — girl or boy.

Why would the PMH displaying purses be a source of delight to me? As a women's history buff as well as museumgoer, I know all too well that women get short shrift. For example, women artists are vastly underrepresented in fine art museums. As the famous “hit and run” artist activists the Guerrilla Girls, aka “the conscience of the art world,” have pointed out, “Do women have to be naked to get into the Metropolitan Museum? Less than 5 percent of the artists in the modern art sections are women, but 85 percent of the nudes are female.” By the same token, it's rare that women's lives and cultural artifacts get front and center stage, or in this case, the main display rooms in a museum.

Traditionally women's lives have been considered less valuable, and by extension less interesting, than men's. We therefore don't occupy as much space in our collective storytelling, whether that narrative is in the form of column inches, movies, television, books or museum curating. After all, a society documents that which or those whom it respects. Said another way, history is written by the victors. Museums are showcases of history and women have gone missing in many historical accounts.

As writer Jenine Baines noted in her article about “The Purse and the Person,” in the Jan. 31 edition of the Pasadena Weekly, one of her male colleagues exclaimed incredulously, “An exhibit about purses?” You most likely won't get that reaction from a woman or girl; they know the richness and vital natures of their hand “baggage.” The exteriors of our purses announce who we are (or aspire to be), and the interiors contain the most intimate aspects of our lives: secrets, keys, birth control, contact information and finances. For some men, purses are emblematic of women's frivolous natures. Oh, but just wait until they need a tissue or wonder if we can carry their keys for them! No wonder they carry their own now.

Thanks to the volunteer efforts of professional photographers Rob Greer, Gilda Davidian and Terry Miller, “The Purse and the Person” exhibit adds a local perspective (pursepective?) through custom posters and a slide show of local notables and their purses, including popular actor and activist Jane Kaczmarek; former Assembly member and state Senate candidate Carol Liu; LA Times columnist and natty dresser Patt Morrison; Doo Dah Parade Queen Naughty Mickie; and the first woman Tournament of Roses president, Libby Evans Wright.

There are too many others to list here but, in a nod to recent purse history, also included are several men who are secure enough in their masculinity to display their purses, er, briefcases: Sheldon Epps, executive director of the Pasadena Playhouse; Raul Rodriguez, award-winning float designer and HRH Andrew, Duke of the Doo Dah parade. All of them has a narrative about what their purses means to them.

Behavioral scientists say that smell is one of the most emotionally evocative ways to remember someone or something. I remember the smell of my mother's handbag in the '50s like it was yesterday. It smelled like Revlon lipstick and a slight dusting of talcum powder. Viewing the purses on display at the PMH was strangely powerful: the women's movement expressed in all our decorative, utilitarian and yes, sometimes frivolous styles. We carry our history, our bags and lives on our arms and shoulders with pride.

“The Purse and the Person” is at the Pasadena Museum of History through March 30. The museum is located at the corner of Orange Grove Boulevard and Walnut Street. Parking is free in the museum lot. Exhibit hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. Suggested donation is $5. Children under 12 are admitted free.

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For as long as I can recall, I have been completely obsessed with designer handbags. I spent the majority of my youth dreaming of the day when I could afford to buy my favorite designer handbags. Here I am, some ten years later, still looking forward to that day. While I have been known to skip out on my bills to buy the latest trendy handbag, I have yet to spend more than $1000.00 on an individual bag. A girl can still dream, can't she?

I was leafing through some catalogs over the weekend, and I was amazed at how incredibly expensive some of the high-end designer handbags really are. I knew they were expensive, but I had no clue how very expensive. Oh…the innocence of youth! I decided that it would be useful for our legion of faithful readers to have a handy reference of the most expensive designer handbags on the planet. So here goes…

It has been written about countless times in the press and in the blogosphere, but I simply cannot resist this little gem! If I had to name an all-time favorite design house, Fendi would be the one. I don't know how they manage to do it, but they are consistently able to strike an incredible balance between innovation and classic design in all of their creations. Fendi designs some of the most exciting handbags in the fashion industry, and the "B.Bag" is one of the most sought-after handbags in the world. One might think that the $30,000 price tag might be a deterrent, but not for those with the means to support their addiction!

Another bag that has given me far too many sleepless nights is the Hermes "Birkin" bag! These bags were named after Jane Birkin, the oh-so-fabulous British actress and fashion icon. These bags are often duplicated, but never truly replicated. With a price tag of over $20,000, it is easy to understand why they are a favorite of vendors of cheap, imitation handbags. As you are likely aware, these bags are available by special order only. Furthermore, the final costs will very much be dependent on the materials and hardware used in their construction. Wow! Do I need a Sugar Daddy, or what?

If there was one other bag that creeps into my dreams with any regularity, it would be the "Muse" from Yves Saint Laurent. It is very much like a traditional bowling bag in shape and design. The first time I saw her was at Saks on Fifth Ave in NYC, and from that moment I knew one day she would be mine. If I had my way, I would choose the oh-so-supple white crocodile version. I cannot think of anything I would rather spend $20,000 on…aside from the "Birkin" bag mentioned above. Wouldn't I make the perfect girlfriend? Wanna go shopping sometime?

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The man "purse" is back!

Pricey men's purses in a variety of shapes and sizes have been in the spotlight at fashion shows in Milan, Paris and New York.

By COTTON TIMBERLAKE
Bloomberg News

They inspire lust, look better than a Scottish sporran, and the guy who organized Live Aid carries one. The man's bag is in again. A standout in the latest round of fashion shows that began in Milan and Paris last month, it has already made an appearance in New York as the city's Fashion Week got started Friday. From Louis Vuitton to Perry Ellis and Z Zegna, design houses have been sending their male models strutting down the runways flashing bags in a new variety of shapes and sizes. And men are paying attention.

"You've never seen grown men lust after an It bag like they did this morning," fashion reviewer Tim Blanks wrote Jan. 17 on men.style.com about Louis Vuitton's new Damier Graphite bags, unveiled in Paris. Designers are competing to capture growing demand as more men become bag lovers, following such pioneers as the late author Truman Capote and rock star Bob Geldof, driver of Live Aid. Capote carried one partly because, he reportedly said, he never knew where he might spend the night. Geldof designed one for British leather-goods maker Mulberry.

Called by different names – "manbag," man purse, city bag, day bag – they now are widely available on luxury retailers' Web sites and have appeared on store mannequins, in fashion magazine ads and in catalogs. "It's a snowball effect," said Tom Kalenderian, executive vice president of the Barneys New York luxury chain. "Now every men's collection that we go to has a strong presentation of leather goods. It seems almost imperative." Young men in large cities are prime customers, said Ross Menuez, a bag-mad fashion designer who launched his own line of bags last year. On the first day of New York's Feb. 1-8 Fashion Week, menswear designer Duckie Brown debuted its $900 nylon rucksack with leather detail.

"It's fabulous," Duckie Brown co-designer Daniel Silver had said the day before. "We have already taken orders. It's going to be THE new bag." The hot silhouette is the "north-south" narrow vertical shape, Kalenderian said. At the European shows, he liked bags with a vintage feel, with hand-burnished leather and featuring artisan touches like contrast stitching. The trend has spawned partnerships. Jil Sander's Raf Simons has teamed up with the backpack brand Eastpak of VF Corp. for a line. Yohji Yamamoto has done a deal with Italian brand Mandarina Duck. Menuez's bags include the "Marsupium" line of coated-canvas dry bags – like a sailor's carry-all – available in 12 prints inspired by roofs, manhole covers, tatami mats and other things. They start at $350.

The man-with-bag trend started in 1969, Frank W. Hoffmann and William G. Bailey wrote in their book, "Fashion and Merchandising Fads." The slim trousers and pocketless Edwardian jackets of the time generated "another method" for "toting one's everyday necessities," they said. Throughout history, men have used carrying devices from saddlebags to the sporrans worn with Scottish kilts. Leather-goods makers Gucci and Prada revived the category when they began showing men's accessories on the runways in the late 1990s, Kalenderian said. The creation of the Jack Spade unit of women's handbag maker Kate Spade in 1999 also spurred interest, Menuez said. Men can now enjoy their own versions of looks long flaunted by women, such as Burberry's beige plaid and Bottega Veneta's woven leather. Design elements include metallic and exotic leathers and embossed dragons and lobster closures. At Mulberry, Geldof's "Bob" has joined the brand's popular Roxanne and Mabel. Not everyone is comfortable with the manbag concept. The television comedy "Seinfeld" made it the target of jokes in one episode.

"Men don't want to look too fey," Menuez said. On men.style.com, designer Michael Kors was quoted as saying: "I have an issue with men carrying bags that look too slick." Valentino was said to describe "little bags" as "ridiculous." Ryosuke Matsumoto, 32, a senior art director at Bandujo Advertising & Design in New York, said he loves carrying bags but can do without the ribbing they incite, including his girlfriend's. He has bought four bags in the past five years. "I don't want to be carrying the same bags all the time," Matsumoto said.

On a recent visit to Barneys New York, Menuez helpfully pointed out some tasteful selections. He liked a Goyard "Boeing," $2,300, in a black chevron print; a Valextra squared-off duffel, $3,330, in the brand's signature off-white leather with black piping; and a $290 Dries van Noten multicolored striped bag that resembles a rice sack. Men should carry bags if only to do the ladies, and themselves, a favor, the designer said.

"It's the women who often have to carry the men's sunglasses, wallets, cell phones," he said. "It's kind of a problem if they have a fight and the woman runs away."

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Tough times hit luxury goods firms

eFashionHouse.com sells high-end designer handbags & accessories below retail. Named Best of the Web for discount designer handbags, eFashionHouse remains a top resource for luxury goods online.

Nick Goodway, Evening Standard

The cold winds of recession have finally caught up with the luxury goods market, according to sales figures out today from Cartier-to-Montblanc group Richemont. The news echoed last week's shock revelation from British luxury fashion chain Burberry that its sales in the three months to 31 December were 'modestly' behind its own internal plans. The seller of the £1600 Medal Studs Warrior handbag saw its shares plunge 16% on the day, and they now sit at a more than two-year low of 405p.

Richemont said its sales in the final three months of 2007 were just 8% ahead at €1.67bn (£1.24bn), which was well below analysts' forecasts of at least doubledigit growth and behind the 11% rise seen in the first half of the group's financial year. More worryingly, once the euro's strength is stripped out, the Swiss-based group's sales for the quarter rose by 14%, but for the key final month of December by just 10%. The sudden slowdown in spending on luxury goods ranging from watches to perfumes and fountain pens to leather goods is a clear signal that the credit crunch is really starting to hurt the affluent as well as the poor.

Even if consumers are not yet being hit in their own pockets, the looming fears of recession, particularly in the US, is making them more wary of splashing out on the unnecessaries of life as sold on Hollywood's Rodeo Drive. Investment bankers are increasingly worried about the prospects for the flotations of Prada and Salvatore Ferragamo, which had been pencilled in for this summer.

Prada, which could be valued at anything up to €5bn, yesterday denied it has set a timetable for a listing on the Milan Stock Exchange, insisting it had not moved on from December's statement that it 'is considering an initial public offering in 2008'. Shoe company Ferragamo has yet to reveal plans for its float but has appointed JPMorgan Chase and Mediobanca as financial advisers. Richemont said it had enjoyed good underlying growth in October and November but that in the final month 'demand in the US and Japan slowed somewhat'.

Richemont, the world's thirdlargest luxury goods firm after LVMH and PPR, follows Tiffany in cautioning that it is seeing a downturn in the US. The American firm saw a 2% fall in sales in the same three months, with a far bigger downturn at Christmas than Wall Street had expected. By contrast, Swatch, the Swiss owner of the Omega and Breguet, posted an 18% rise in sales last year with no apparent sign of a tailing-off. Richemont's US saleswere static in the latest quarter at €327m while those in Japan fell 6% to €215m. The group said its strongest sales, up by mid-double digits, during the quarter were in Asia-Pacific and Europe. European sales were 10% higher at €753m while those in Asia-Pacific rose by 21% to €378m.

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