Investments of passion performance and global luxury spending trends. Luxury is getting a makeover, all at the speed of social media. The consumer of “luxury” is increasingly digitally-savvy, time-sensitive, socially aware, and more and more concerned about sustainability. The industry surpassed €1 trillion in retail sales value in 2015 and delivered healthy growth of 5% … Read more
The best and brightest talent in American Fashion today. It’s the moment everyone in fashion has been waiting for. This week, CFDA chairman Diane von Furstenberg and Nadja Swarovski, Member of the Executive Board, Swarovski Crystal Business, unveiled the names of those designers and fashion influencers up for the biggest nod in fashion. For Womenswear … Read more
Virtual and Augmented. Our future is a Huge Home Theatre Experience Over the last years, the gaming industry has shown a handful of experiments created for Virtual Reality (VR). At the Game Developers Conference 2016 in San Francisco, game development’s biggest gathering of the year, VR and augmented reality clearly dominated the showcase. The world now … Read more
“A brand exists first and foremost in the mind of the consumer. It may live as long as it is remembered. The logic of brand revival or recyclability is that some brands are buried in consumers’ psyches and as such may still have value. These ‘dormant’ brands are more likely to gain readier acceptance by … Read more
Maison Lancôme announced the traditional fashion collaboration of the year. The Fall 2016 make-up collection 2016 was entrusted to Sonia Rykiel. A collaboration in keeping with those regularly initiated by Lancôme since its very beginnings, with personalities from the world of art, fashion and high jewellery. Associated with a very French heritage and a shared vision … Read more
This year 198 billionaires were new to the list, down from the high of 290 newcomers in 2015. Sixty-six billionaires are under 40 this year. Mark Zuckerberg (No. 6) is the biggest gainer in Forbes’ 30th Annual World’s Billionaires Issue. Mark Zuckerberg’s (No. 6) fortune is up $11.2 billion for a total net worth of $44.6 … Read more