In an attempt to find growth, the companies are, again, turning to multichannel, believing that when channels coordinate, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Although e-commerce continues to register double-digital growth year-over-year, online sales have not matched the hype and vision evangelized over the last 15 years. In the same vein, … Read more
American Express Business Insights Data Show Full-Price Online Luxury Fashion Spending Sizzling The new data released from American Express Business Insights during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week revealed additional telling shifts in luxury fashion spending both in US and abroad. While young Gen Y consumers are demonstrating a growing hunger for full-priced online luxury, Seniors are showing … Read more
Pop Art, Pocket Watches & Pure Chaos: The AP x Swatch Drop the Watch World Didn’t See Coming @Audemars Piguet × Swatch ‘Royal PopThe much-debated Audemars Piguet × Swatch ‘Royal Pop’ — A new take on the pocket watch, and why this collaboration makes more sense than anyone wants to admit. There’s a moment in … Read more
From dinosaur bones to private jets, vintage couture to curated high streets — Knight Frank’s landmark 20th Wealth Report takes a long, unflinching look at what truly wealthy people want right now. Spoiler: it’s not what you think. There’s a question that luxury brands, property developers, auction houses, and yacht builders have all been quietly … Read more
L’Oréal and NVIDIA are using AI to build formulas that actually work — faster, smarter, and with zero guesswork. Imagine a laboratory where no beaker is ever tipped, no compound ever burns, and no researcher endures a single failed test batch — because the entire experiment has already been run, a thousand times over, in … Read more
If the luxury world had a mood this fortnight, it would be restless elegance. Boardrooms are reshuffling, creative directors are bowing out, iconic brands are chasing new identities, and the markets are sending mixed signals. From a royal Burberry capsule to Porsche’s worst year in over a decade, from Kering’s painful surgery to Dubai’s bulletproof … Read more