Contents: Sep. 14, 2004

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

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