Jacqueline Zenn, Trend Hunter

Chanel Tennis Racket - Sport Equipment For The Brand Conscious
That racket is definitely stylish, but I have a feeling that the people using it will fall into the label whore category. After all, a serious tennis player would probably go for quality over brand name/appearance - and buy one these - http://www.3luxe.com/category/Tennis/Tennis_Racquets

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Create Your Ideal Travel Guide - Moleskine City Notebook
As a moleskine devotee who also loves to travel, I think those are excellent. I like the idea of sharing them with friends, but perhaps there should be an exchange program for travelers - sort of like Wikitravel but in print. After all, online book exchange programs work surprisingly well.

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Luxury Ollies - Ferrari Skateboard
A skateboard does seem like an odd thing for Ferrari to make, but it's not nearly as odd a home gym (hey, at least a skateboard has wheels). However, I think I'd go with a company that actually has a history and some expertise when it comes to skateboards, like one of these: http://www.3luxe.com/category/Skateboarding/Skateboards I'd bet a Ferrari skateboard is probably all about the logo and therefore will be popular with poseurs - more power to them.

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Bloomframe Provides Balcony Space for Smaller Apartments
This is awesome - I'd love to add it to my tiny apartment. However, I doubt my landlord (and most others) would be cool with it.

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Villa Designs Beautiful Dangly Baubles for Your Ears and Others Eyes
Those are gorgeous!

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Whisky Fraud Rising - Protecting "The Recipe" in China, India
Probably because it doesn't taste like the real stuff? I'm not really a whiskey connisseur, but I'd be incredibly pissed off if I bought a good bottle and it wasn't up to par because of fraud (on a related note, if it was beer - something I am definitely a snob about - I'd be the first one in line to lobby for legislation).

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Luxury Brands Boom Online - High End E-tailers Prosper
You know, at first this surprised me, but with the increase in the Hollwood-ization of fashion and style (e.g. women want to dress like their favorite actresses, both onscreen and off), and the fact that the significant majority of women don't live somewhere where they have access to top luxury brands, it only makes sense that they would turn to the web. After all, it's not like the country's wealth is concentrated around Rodeo Drive and Fifth Avenue, and anyways, even wealthy customers don't always want to shop in-store. Sometimes it's easier (and dare I say, more luxurious) to have the goods come right to your door. Besides, you can always ship back what doesn't work and so many online shopping sites have such great return policies now that it's all pretty low risk. In addition, all of the online media - the many fashion blogs, the message boards, social shopping sites, and even recommendation engines are helping people to refine their tastes and learn what is "simply the best", to quote the tagline of 3Luxe (http://www.3luxe.com), one of the afore-mentioned recommendation engines. You definitely don't need to be in a fashion capital anymore to know exactly what is going in the luxury world.

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Gold Flakes Martini - 24 Karat Cocktail (Follow-Up)
For some reason this reminds me of a really upscale version of Goldschlager.

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