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Brioni’s $5,000 Crocodile Skin Watch Box

By Tim Baysinger • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Fashion, News & Noteworthy

As if you needed more proof of why Brioni is the premier manufacturer of gentlemen’s luxury goods, the Italian fashion house brings you their Crocodile Skin Watch Box.
Coming in at $5,000, it’s made from the world’s finest genuine alligator skin and is lined with suede and glove-soft leather. With gold-plated hardware, there is enough room [...]



£64,995 iPhone Wallet World’s Most Expensive

By Tim Baysinger • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Fashion, News & Noteworthy

Stuart Hughes has gained a reputation for designing some of the most expensive gadgets on the market; he has the world’s most expensive iPhone under his belt.
To further prove that even the simplest of things can be transformed into something luxurious, Hughes has designed the Crimson Gold “Supreme” edition iPhone wallet, the most expensive ever. [...]



Show You Love Her with Siegelson Diamond Ear Pendants

By Tim Baysinger • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Fashion, News & Noteworthy

New York based jewelry house Siegelson has been known to be on the cutting edge of the industry. Museum curators, magazine editors, jewelry historians, and other important houses all acknowledge the family owned company to be the authority on fine and precious jewelry.
Continuing that tradition, Siegelson introduces a pair of Spessartite Garnet and Diamond Ear Pendants [...]



Holland & Sherry Offers Suits Cut From World’s Costliest Cloth

By Affluent Page Editor • Feb 20th, 2009 • Category: Fashion, News & Noteworthy

 

Scotland-based fabric weaver and cloth merchant Holland & Sherry supplies so many bespoke suit makers it maintains premises on Savile Row. Now the storied firm, founded in 1836, has woven the world’s first 100 per cent worsted spun Vicuna fabric, the most luxurious and expensive in the world at over $4,000 per yard. It took [...]



Superga by Isaia di Napoli Crocodile Sneakers

By Affluent Page Editor • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: Fashion

Two bastions of classic Italian style have teamed up to produce the ultimate in luxurious sport shoes: Isaia, one of the world’s last remaining Neapolitan sartorial brands, and Superga, makers of the iconic rubber-soled sneaker worn by elegant European sportsmen. Part of the IS (Isaia-Superga) collection consists of limited edition footwear that reinterprets Superga’s classic [...]



Tom Ford’s Fur Boots for the Affluent Man

By Affluent Page Editor • Oct 24th, 2008 • Category: Fashion, News & Noteworthy

Decadent designer Tom Ford’s vision of winter luxury for today’s gentleman of leisure can perhaps best be summed up by his new collection of natural fur boots – about the most glamorous footgear money can buy. The collection consists of three pairs of boots and a hat, for the ultimate in affluent Eskimo chic: silver [...]



Zegna Solar Powered Ski Jacket

By Affluent Page Editor • Oct 13th, 2008 • Category: Fashion, News & Noteworthy

Science had a major breakthrough several years ago, when researchers working for Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), discovered a way to integrate microscopic motion sensors into the elbows of a long sleeve T-shirt. that enabled the wearer to create music simply by waving his arms. The sensors inside [...]



Caballero $12,000 Bulletproof Polo Worn by Princes and Presidents

By Jared Paul Stern • Oct 7th, 2008 • Category: Fashion, News & Noteworthy, Security

A $12,000 anti-ballistic polo shirt made of ultra-lightweight bulletproof fabric by Colombian designer Miguel Caballero is now available from Harrod’s of London. Caballero has been dubbed the “Armani of armor” by high-profile clients such as Prince Felipe of Spain, President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. His proprietary lightweight, removable ballistic [...]



The $150000 Hermes Peacoat

By Affluent Page Luxury Index • Aug 29th, 2008 • Category: Fashion, News & Noteworthy

Hermes upped the ante on luxury with this extravagant $150,000 peacoat made entirely of crocodile skin. For the Fall/Winter 2008-09 collection, Veronique Nichanian, the Hermes’ menswwear designer for the last 20 years produced the ultra-sleek classic coat.  Veronique Nichanian says, “the most timeless article of clothing a man can have is a leather piece.”  With only [...]