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Fendi Drawstring – Top Raffia Bag

Neutral colors and conspicuous textures can never get you wrong in fashion. Fendi epitomizes this classiness with the new Drawstring Top RaffiA Bag by the means of neutral gold color and juxtaposition texture. The straw tote with white snakeskin is embellished with leather accents and golden hardware at places. Its roomy two-in one bucket body allows you to throw in all your essentials without having to come back home to collect any more items to get dressed for your after-work party. The Fendi Drawstring Top Raffia Bag is available for purchase at Neiman Marcus for $3,000.
The $1 million dancing fountains will pour romance this Christmas

Christmas will be here soon, so is your gift list ready? Neiman Marcus is out with their 2011 edition of the Christmas Book and if you’re in a mood to splurge, you have to get a $1 million dancing fountains for your home, courtesy WET, California. Coming from the same folks who have stunned the world with the Fountains of Bellagio and the world’s largest fountain, The Dubai Fountain, for the first time ever, they will create a personal scale fountain showcasing two of its amazing underwater robotic nozzles dancing as a couple, just for you. You will be invited to pick the perfect piece and get a glimpse of VirtualWET, the proprietary software which simulates movements of the waters for the fountain. And since it the season of sharing, Neiman Marcus will donate $10,000 of the sale proceeds to Water.org, a US-Based NGO that aids drinking water and sanitation needs for developing countries.
Toni Braxton Facing Foreclosure

The Wall Street Journal reports that the holder of Braxton’s mortgage debt won bankruptcy court approval to start proceedings against her home in Duluth, Georgia. Braxton doesn’t own the property, a trust does. She owes $1.5 million on her mortgage, while the property itself been appraised at $1.2 million. She took out the mortgage in 2004 with Wells Fargo Bank and the lender later transferred its interest in the debt to a trust set up to administer a pool of mortgages for investors in those securities. According to the WSJ, Braxton earlier told the bankruptcy court she had wanted to stay in the home.
Braxton, filed for Chapter 7 liquidation last fall. She listed debts of $10 million and $50 million with assets in the $1 million to $10 million range. Creditors include Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Internal Revenue Service and Neiman Marcus. She had previously filed bankruptcy in 1998. The IRS had also filed a lien against her for $396,000.
Braxton also had a home in Henderson, Nevada that she bought in 2007 for $2.6 million. The home was listed as a foreclosure on Realtor.com for $1.15 million and sold on September 17 for $1.060 million. Braxton and her four sisters, all aspiring singers, have a new reality television show “Braxton Family Values” which will run on the WE Network this April.
Luxury Brands and Retailers Use Email For Branding

Luxury brands and high end retailers such as Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton, Frette, Kiehl’s, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman are trying to push sales through discount email blasts. Online retailers are offering free shipping and significant in store discounts are on offer. The week after Christmas is important for retailers as it provides almost 15% of the total holiday season sales.
All the big brands are offering significant discounts for the week. Luxury home-goods manufacturer Frette is offering an astounding 70 percent off for a limited time after the holiday season. Email is a very effective medium for the luxury brands to connect to their customer base. Some brands are using emails for cross selling or up selling.
If a store notices that a consumer has bought a suit from a particular brand and not its accessories it can create limited-time offers on the same brand’s shoes or leather goods. This kind of specialized offers through the email is very powerful as it shows the client that the brand or store knows who they are because it has specific value to them based on their line of interest.
BMW Individual M6 Convertible lands in Neiman Marcus Christmas Book

The Neiman Marcus Christmas Book once again delivers an offering of the most outrageous, luxurious and adventurous gifts money can buy. The gifts are chosen for their “wow” factor and not necessarily for their ability to sell. For speed, there’s the NM Limited-edition 2007 BMW Individual M6 Convertible. With a V-10 engine delivering 500 horsepower, it’s a fast car. One gets a 2007 BMW M6 convertible bathed in Ruby Black paint and upholstered in a special Gold Brown shade of BMW Individual merino leather.
Moreover, along with the car, this Christmas present also includes a four-night trip to Munich where the proud owner and a guest will soak themselves in BMW culture and meet the designers who designed, or really picked out the color combo, of their unique M6. No more than 50 of this rare beauty will be sold for $139,000.00. So who actually buys the gifts? It’s not celebrities or the famously rich. It’s really people looking for unusual gifts.
Dolce & Gabbana Patent Bowler handbag for $1995

Check out the latest creation by Dolce & Gabbana christened the “Patent Bowler’. Available in black and eggplant colors, the bag can be purchased for $1995 from Neiman Marcus.
Features:
- In-demand patent leather style
- Gold-tone hardware
- Front pocket with metal clasp
- Logo Plate
- Top handles



