Kids can be kids: Stella McCartney Organic cotton collection – Autumn Winter 2011

Organic Cotton is the master of the new Stella McCartney Kids collection Organic cotton feel is extra soft and is perfect for kids and babies’ delicate skin. Plus,  says Stella McCartney, with less chemicals used in the making process, organic cotton is very resistant so kids can be kids and you don’t have to worry … Read more

Sanctus Michael Archangelus Luxury Pen

Tibaldi Pen to Honor Sanctus Michael Archangelus Italian Luxury Pen Manufacturer Tibaldi (Montegrappa’s subsidiary, Italy’s most revered manufacturer of fine writing instruments,) captures the Essence of One of the Most Venerated Saints in All Major Religions – Saint Michael – the embodiment of God’s warrior. A source of inspiration for countless painters, Saint Michael is … Read more

Zegna, PPR and Eurazeo targeting luxury Italian brand Brioni

Luxury brands stalk Bond’s outfitter Suitors are stalking luxury Italian brand Brioni – known for dressing James Bond 007 and presidents including Barack Obama. Zegna, an Italian luxury brand, PPR, one of France’s biggest luxury houses, and Eurazeo, the French private-equity firm,  are all known to have had recent talks with the Bond suit-maker about … Read more

The luxury sector is not immune: Cavalli chief sees luxury goods slowdown

  The debt crisis “will definitely have an impact on consumption” of luxury goods Luxury-goods companies should brace for weaker growth in 2012 as Europe’s sovereign debt crisis leads to a slowdown in spending, according to Gianluca Brozzetti, chief executive officer for designer Roberto Cavalli. “To say it won’t have an effect is madness,” Brozzetti … Read more

Men replace women as online shoppers of the future

Across Europe, two in five people (40%) now shop online – and it is men not women that are driving the charge into internet purchases – according to a new study by CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). At a time when there is an unprecedented level of consumer access to the internet across Europe, CBRE’s study … Read more