Open Doors, Smaller Doors: Reading LVMH’s Weekend of Craft

For three days in October the world’s largest luxury group let strangers into its workshops. Here is what changed, who got in, and why it matters. Every so often luxury does something delightfully counterintuitive: it gives away what it normally guards. From October 16 to 18, LVMH, the group behind Louis Vuitton, Dior, Moët & … Read more

The Week in Luxury: Sculpture, Scarcity, and the Slow Reset of an Industry

August is supposed to be luxury’s quiet month — the pause between resort season and the September show circuit. This week said otherwise. Auction houses posted their best first half in years, private jet operators are consolidating and rationing access in the same breath, a hypercar shed a meter of height for the sake of … Read more

Fashion’s Report Card Is In: Decoding the Q2-26 Lyst Index

Every quarter, the internet quietly votes on which fashion houses it’s obsessed with, and every quarter, Lyst tallies the results into a ranking that half the industry pretends not to check obsessively. The Q2-26 Lyst Index has landed, and this time the story isn’t really about a coup at the top. It’s about heatwaves, jelly … Read more

The Summer’s Secret Whispers: An Analysis of France’s Luxury Renaissance

Paris in the heart of summer is a city of gilded whispers. The air, heavy with the scent of linden trees and the echo of couture shows, holds secrets of a new era. This past month, from the quiet corridors of the Hôtel particulier to the bustling ateliers, the narrative of French luxury has been … Read more

Le Bon Marché’s Latest Venture Is An Experience Worth Barking About

If luxury had a bark, it would echo through the halls of Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche this season. From February 9 to April 20, 2025, Paris’ most prestigious department store sheds its typically polished, Parisian nonchalance for a tail-wagging, fur-flying, joyfully offbeat celebration of man’s best friend. Enter “Je t’aime comme un chien!” — … Read more