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Satisfy Your Inner Diva With Designer Bracelets?

Designer products are the rave in this generation's lifestyle. From clothes to bags and even many a designer bracelet! If you are, then you are probably spending a considerable amount of time surfing the net or browsing shops in ...READ»

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Knocking off the Knockoffs

Ebay has built an empire through the sale of second-hand items by private sellers, but as an increasing amount of retailers offer new brand name products, the online auction site finds itself in the legal crosshairs. The New ...READ»

America's Yang Has a Yen for Asia's Yin

At a time when much of the world seems to be wary of America's growing dominance, Asia has found a way to send its yin to satisfy America's yang.READ»

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Paris Fashion Week

The French capital's prêt-à-porter week may be a magnet for snooty designers and buyers with wallets the size of Vuitton trunks. But cities with less history as hubs of couture have tried lately to grab some glamour by staging ...READ»

Scan 'Em, Danno

In the our July issue (on sale now!) Michael Prospero reports on the Biopod, a fingerprint scanner that hooks up to your computer and remembers all your email passwords. [Subscribers click here.] Now, an innovative young woman in ...READ»

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The real fashion,Crazy Ed Hardy

Madonna now has disappointed me yet again. ed hardy Diamond Tee graffiti has often been photographed Britney Spears and Heidi Klum and other techniques, creating a feeling of excess attrition in the light from a master hand at the use ...READ»

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After a Fashion

A recent photo essay by Karen Lehrman makes the case that fashion photography is on the decline -- while practitioners of the past viewed themselves as workmen, today's fashion photographers consider themselves artists in their own ...READ»

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Takashi Murakami Creates an Anime for Louis Vuitton

The Japanese pop artist behind some of LV's best-selling bags unveils their newest collaboration.READ»

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Is the Times Travel Section Tone Deaf?

The "Travel Winter 2008" issue of the New York Times Style Magazine features imagery of our rapidly melting polar caps. The photospread of the grand scenery is juxtaposed with luxury items such as $6845 black and white pelt of a mammal formerly known as endangered or a $3195 Chanel bag.READ»

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Tanking Economy Shutters Chanel's Artsy Pavilion

Even tony brands like Chanel are trying to cut corners in this merciless economy, which means indulgences like the traveling art pavilion face the budget ax.READ»

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Thread-Count Wars

First sheets, now shirts.READ»

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Dutch Treat: A New Pavilion for New York's Battered Battery

The Island at the Center of the World may have lost some of its luster recently,  as the city’s profligate bankers squandered the nation’s wealth in pursuit of watches, jets, and beachfront property. But the ‘hood will soon ...READ»

Rise of the Aerotropolis

As competition shrinks the globe, the world is building giant airport-cities. They look monstrous to American eyes--and that could be a problem. READ»

What's the Deal With Jetrosexuals?

A few years ago, a new sexual classification emerged on the scene. As funny as I thought it was when I first heard the term "metrosexual," I think it's even funnier that it stuck around. Oh no, metrosexuals weren't just a passing fad ...READ»

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The Most Innovative Companies in Architecture

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Architecture.READ»

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Global Greening Lifestyles: Japan

What factors are influencing different countries in their approaches to green design and green living? Here we look at Japan.READ»

Innovation: The Great Haul of China

It wasn't long after I arrived in Tokyo that I heard about the tuna flying to China. My book The Sushi Economy ends in China, sushi's last frontier, where an expanding middle class is developing fresh appetites for the food and an ...READ»

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The 10 Most Creative People in the Music Biz

1. DeAndre "Soulja Boy Tell'em" Way, rapper/producer The 18-year-old Web wunderkind took a crazy song and dance, and propelled it via YouTube and MySpace fame into an Interscope recording contract and platinum ...READ»

What Makes a Product Cool

The Fast Interview: Steve Quartz on neuromarketing – and why iPods are like heroin.READ»

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The Star-Studded Design of Vegas' $8.5 Billion CityCenter

This week will see the opening of Vegas' $8.5 billion CityCenter, the most massive collaboration of famous architects in recent memory.READ»

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China Declares War Against Foreign Luxury

The upscale districts of Shanghai and Beijing sparkle with high-decibel status, from Armani to Prada to Burberry. The newly-minted Chinese upper class doesn't seem to mind this. But based on a report in this weekend's Financial ...READ»

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Amazon Basics: Branding Advice for Jeff Bezos from 11 Marketing Experts

Memo To: Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.comMemo From: Fast Company Marketing Roundtable AdvisorsRE: Amazon Basics brandingThis past weekend, Fast Company convened a virtual roundtable of marketing strategists and brand ...READ»

Tough Love

Business wants to love design, but it's often an awkward romance. READ»

Punch! Kick! Gouge! (And Other Ways to Lead)

Executives who are hungry for leadership are taking weekend courses at Dani-Hi, Israel's world-famous school for counterterrorism training. We'd tell you more -- but then we'd have to kill you.READ»