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Wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs who once joined golf clubs as a way of celebrating their success are now looking for more exclusive pursuits to define their status. Daisy Zhong travelled to Tianjin for...

Thierry de Lachaise, Senior Director and Head of the Silver Department, Sotheby’s Paris, has absolutely no idea why Asia has suddenly developed a ravenous appetite for decorative European antique silver...

Decades before La Mer, La Prairie and Chantecaille, Erno Laszlo was the most outrageously expensive - and glamorous - skincare out there, the Café Society and Jet Set beauty secret, the choice of Truman...

  LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault bought Château Cheval Blanc with Baron Albert Frère in 1998. Fears that the two billionaires would turn the revered wine into a vinified version of the...

  The black market for gold in china now sees up to 100 billion yuan worth of trade every year. The world’s most precious metal may seem like a great investment, but beneath its shining surface...

  In December Christie’s will auction the jewellery and couture collections of screen legend Elizabeth Taylor.  As John Lyttle discovered, the event promises to be one of this century’s most...