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Chinese retail sites drop Dolce & Gabbana amid racist ad backlash

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Fallout continues after advert featuring Chinese model trying to eat pizza with chopsticks

Senior executives no longer have the option to treat design as a luxury. Study

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  Companies from a wide variety of industries consistently showed financial benefits from good design: from retail banking to medical devices to consumer goods. This suggests that companies that improve their design capability can improve their financial performance whether they are making physical products, digital apps, services, experiences or a combination of these things. McKinsey … Read more

Luxury Begins with this Brand

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Expensive cars, private planes, and posh Gucci handbags all come to mind when one thinks of living in the lap of luxury. While the majority of society cannot afford the lifestyle of the rich and famous, luxury watch enthusiasts abound, making brands like Rolex the standard from which the average working man or woman defines … Read more

Luxury perfumers to remove all badger-hair brushes

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  Luxury perfumer Floris London has removed all badger-hair brushes from its stores and website after a new PETA video exposé of China’s badger-brush industry revealed that “protected” badgers are illegally hunted in the wild using snares and other cruel methods. The graphic footage shows that these badgers, as well as others who were bred … Read more

Luxury Audio Studio: Harman is opening first Experience Store in Europe

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  Since opening its first flagship store in Shanghai in 2010, Harman International, a house of world-renowned audio brands and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, has added such cosmopolitan locations as Tokyo, and New York City. With its deep automotive roots, Munich was a natural choice for the first European Experience Store. The very … Read more