This is your life
Sniffing out the next trends and innovations comes from a Zeitgeist-like inner certainty of what people will be demanding next, writes Lynne Franks
A Marc Jacobs handbag. The latest music “pod”. Your very own over-sized, four-wheel-drive Humvee. A hand-held, wire-free PDA that takes care of all your communication needs in one. Movie-theatre-sized TV plasma screens. Dolce & Gabbana for him and her, and this season's Jimmy Choo stilettos, as worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in “Sex and the City”. These are just some of the items on the “must have” list of so many up-and-coming young couples—whether they live in Los Angeles, Sydney, Solihull or Dubai.
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