Yes, according to gossip site, Gawker. While Prospere Magazine isn’t the one to gossip, the rumour is that her replacement is going to be Carine Roitfeld, who currently heads the French edition. This is definitely life imitating art. In the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, there is a plot where [...]

T U Dawood
The Canadian Association of New York Foundation recently held its annual black-tie fundraising gala Maple Leaf Ball at The Plaza Hotel.

The swanky affair brought out the crème de la crème of the Canadian community of New York with a VIP dinner followed by a cocktail dance party and ultimately an after party at [...]

Christine Marchuska made a big career move this year. After six years of working in the financial industry, she was ready for something different. Being unsatisfied with the amount of “green” clothing available in boutiques, Christine decided that it was time for her to realize a childhood dream of combining fashion, business, philanthropy and [...]

Loella Medina, a jewellery designer based in New York, became interested in the process of hand-made jewellery when she was ten years old.  Her father, a civil engineer, had started to create earrings, after finding pliers and beads at a construction site.  For a while in the 1980s, Mr. Medina’s earrings were a hit with women [...]

Jessica DeCarlo, who started making jewellery when she was very young launched her line, Jessica DeCarlo Designs this past spring. Through her studies at St. Michael’s College in Vermont, Academia Italiana and an internship at Metallo Nobile in Florence Italy (where she was doing PR/Marketing), she developed a unique style, creating timeless-looking pieces that definitely [...]

Neiko Designs is a small New York-based hand made bag company. Launched the summer of 2006, Neiko’s work was inspired by the lack of timeless classics in today’s bag market. The company does understand that fashion has its trends, but it does not allow the fashion industry to dictate what they do. They just go [...]

UPDATE 2: The House of Representatives has passed the “bailout bill” 263-171. The vast majority of Democrats were for the bill (172 to 63) while a slight majority of Republicans were against the bill (91 for, 108 against).
UPDATE: On the evening of Wednesday, October 1, the Senate approved the revised version of the [...]

Soon, Prospere Magazine will begin to profile various companies who are listed on the New York Stock Exchage (NYSE) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).  The column will debut in October and will be updated on a weekly basis.  These columns will give a brief history of the profiled company, any news or upcoming products the [...]

Cynthia Cheng
New York is full of expensive restaurants, but there are only a handful that’s high on everyone’s list.   Jean-Georges is one of them.  However, Jean-Georges has one thing that most other places do not have. It has an amazing Prix-Fixe lunch that is lighter on the wallet than their “regular” dinner menu. For $28 US, one [...]