A year of shock and change for luxury industry but with a recovery in sight. Report

    2020 luxury industry drop is the largest recorded since global consultancy have been tracking the industry. Covid-19 Crisis Pushes Luxury To Sharpest Fall Ever But Catalyses Industry’s Ability To Transform. Bain & Company Luxury Study. It has been a year of profound global change in the way we live, the way we shop … Read more

Alibaba and Richemont invest in Farfetch China

      “The growth potential of luxury e-commerce has never been so promising, and the importance of China for the luxury industry is only becoming more obvious every day.” – François-Henri Pinault, Chairman, Artemis (the controlling shareholder of global Luxury group Kering (Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, Dodo, … Read more

Luxury Brands Benefit from a Healthy and Thriving Luxury Secondhand Market. Survey

    A Thriving Luxury Secondhand Market Drives Sustainable Consumption. The Consumers Behind Fashion’s Growing Secondhand Market Survey Sustainability, one of the ways luxury brands can benefit from the growing resale market, says a new survey by Vestiaire Collective x BCG. Vestiaire Collective, the leading global community platform for desirable preowned fashion, and Boston Consulting … Read more

LVMH held the digital Demo Day for its business incubator’s, La Maison des Startups

    La Maison des Startups LVMH holds its Demo Day in a 100% digital format. Created in 2018 within Station F, the world’s largest startup campus, La Maison des Startups LVMH embodies the luxury Group’s objective to work closely with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in order to stimulate innovation across its high-end Maisons and shape … Read more

A new blockchain-powered passport will cut down on environmental waste and ensure authenticity

  From October 13, 2020, all new Breitling watches will be delivered with a blockchain-based digital passport, secured by Arianee technology, to ensure their authenticity and seamless accessibility. Breitling is the first luxury watch brand to extend digital blockchain technology to all of its watches. The digital passport is automatically connected to Breitling’s digital warranty … Read more

Burberry to cut 500 jobs worldwide in £55m cost-saving drive

Plan, which includes 150 UK head office posts, comes as sales slump in Covid-19 crisis