Visa Black Card

Visa has launched the Black Card ($495 annual fee). The Black Card is made with carbon graphite and comes with personalized assistance from a 24-hour concierge service, "luxury gifts," access to the Priority Pass airport VIP lounge program, and a high-end rewards program. Membership is limited to 1% of U.S. residents.

Movado limited edition Museum(r)

Movado released a limited edition Museum(r) to celebrate the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater' 50th anniversary. The dial watch designed with a double-wrap sliced strap that signifies the movement and the fluidity of dance. Ailey's signature anniversary orange inspired the strap color, and the case-back of the timepiece features Ailey's 50th Anniversary logo. The Movado Museum dial limited edition Alvin Ailey watch retails for $795 and is available at Macy's and select Movado Boutiques.

Chaumet Attrape Moi Collection

Chaumet's new collection named Attrape Moi is made using the same techniques used since their 1780 founding. The Attrape Moi collection is based on the spider theme with spiders or spider webs. The collection includes earrings, rings, necklaces, pendants and bracelets.

Alexis Hudson Handbag Sale and Charles Nolan Sale at ideeli

This week, at ideeli. Alexis Hudson Handbag Sale and Charles Nolan Sale. You can access the invite only community by going to here or enter "momist" as invite code at ideeli.com


Alexis Hudson Handbag Sale
Tuesday 12/30. Start time 11:00 am
Up to 70% off, prices start at $160

There is a reason WHY celebrities including Keira Knightley, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Kate Hudson all sport Alexis Hudson bags. The line is classic, functional, and chic. No blaring logos or fancy embellishments. Just clean, crisp style!

Charles Nolan Sale
From ready-to-wear to accessories,
Wednesday, 12/31. Start time 11:00 am
Up to 73% off, prices start at $125

This sale includes a killer pair of 17" croc embossed patent leather boots with square toe and inside zip. If you haven't found your own personal "it boot" this season- this may be it!

Caviar by Balducci

Balducci's, has introduced a new line of private label caviar reports Luxist. Balducci's Caviar comes in Wild Caspian, which includes Sevruga and Royal Osetra varieties, Farmed International, and Domestic. Prices range from $9.99 for domestic Salmon and Paddlefish up to $1,500 for the precious Wild Caspian Royal Osetra.

Armani Privé bois d’encens candle

Created with the very best white incense from Somalia, this Privé candle is scented with the vibrant, pure, mysterious note loved by Giorgio Armani. Exquisitely nestled within a solid beech wood candle holder with a unique colored resin in the middle for shimmering candlelight in visual harmony with the fragrance. Lasts up to 50 hours.

Urbane Nomads

Urbane Nomads is, a travel agency based in Singapore. The agency bills themselves as travel mixologists, offering unique destinations, pairing it with 'select accommodation and unusual travel modes.'

Some of the tours come 2009 include a private jet tour covering Golden Triangle Thailand and Myanmar, before moving on to Putao, a remote north-eastern state in Myanmar that is notoriously difficult to get to due to the erratic flight schedule.

Putao is at the foot of the Himalayas, where the lush jungles of Myanmar meet with the climate and mountainscapes of the Himalayas. What this results in is a rich biodiversity that includes red pandas and clouded leopards. Home here too, are many tribes including the Lisu, Rawang and Naga as well as the world's only Mongoloid pygmies.

Guests will be staying in a luxury resort designed by Jean Michel Gathy of
Aman Resorts' fame.

Come July '09, there will be the Shandur Polo festival(the site of the
highest polo grounds in the world) in Pakistan. Guests will be travelling
around Kafiristan(where fairy-worshipping, black robed tribes in
elaborate head dresses with distinctive features and believed to be the
descendants of Alexander the Great are to be found), the photoshopped
landscapes of Chitral and Hunza, the most likely contender for the
original Shangri-la.

More information on Urbane Nomads can be found on our website at:
http://www.urbanenomads.com

La Grande Dame by Riva Gift Box

Veuve Clicquot has partnered with iconic Italian boatmaker Riva to create a wooden boat-inspired gift box. The La Grande Dame by Riva Gift Box is made of mahogany, chrome and black lacquer, and encases one bottle of Veuve Clicquot's La Grande Dame 1998 and sells for $140.