Perhaps jaded by regular visits to plush boutiques in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay or Paris's Champs-Élysées, the world's millionaires are increasingly preoccupied with spending on the kind of things that money – usually – can't buy, said the report by the Boston Consulting Group.
The fight went down on March 30 at the opening of "Real Housewives" regular Kim Kim DePaola's Posche 2 boutique in Ridgewood, N.J., and Teresa Giudice's feud with Melissa Gorga was at the center of it all, according to RadarOnline.com.com
The store (the local authors Tom Wolfe and Louis Begley are regulars) also has a basement boutique of collectible toy soldiers and, on the balcony, an independent seller of used books.
I may not be a regular customer of the design boutiques of SoHo and TriBeCa, but if there is ever going to be a time for me to furnish my home in high style, this would seem to be it.
Diane Green, a 54-year-old survivor of breast cancer, notices that regular people shop at her favorite boutique, Just for You, in East Hanover, N.J., which specializes in post-mastectomy clothing.
The most natural next vertical will likely be regular gym usage (as opposed to boutique fitness), where users could hit up local gyms for some treadmill time or weight-lifting.
"This is part of the trend of private equity becoming a regular industry, not a collection of obscure boutiques," said David Snow, CEO of private equity trade publishing company PrivCap.
At 15, he began working at the Charivari boutique and soon became a Studio 54 regular.
The courier who showed up at Ms. Wu's office was the company's head of boutique operations, who has put aside her regular job this holiday season to make deliveries by hand.
Michael Cullen is editor of boutique hotel website i-escape.com and a regular traveller to Greece I have spoken to hoteliers this week, in the Peloponnese and in Athens, and to my dad who lives in Athens.
