Contents

50 COVER: LUXURY FEVER Consumers are buying up everything from diamond-encrusted handbags and private jets to souped-up trash cans and designer toilets. How long will the boom last? By Kate Betts

12 Right This Minute Something wild is overtaking fashion

15 Notebook Glamour in San Francisco, cookbooks and fashion books. Plus, Canada's hot architects, best-selling handbags and why fashion and politics don't mix

30 Icon Cartier

32 Navigator: Tokyo, Japan Architect Peter Marino heads for the city's more traditional sites

35 10 Questions Gucci CEO Robert Polet

40 All Access Three lads share their haberdashery secrets

44 Everything Is Illuminated Crystals, sequins, fur and other luxurious details are lighting up designer looks for fall

58 Who's Who The new luxury leaders

62 Feast Your Eyes In the newest high-end restaurants, high style is the rule By Richard Lacayo

66 The New Androgyny Men and women are suddenly dressing a lot alike. Plus, men get shopping

74 Working It The designers of Juicy Couture teach Joel Stein about the joy of spending