2012 Brandz Top 100: most valuable global luxury brands

Feeling entitled, consumers spent on luxury goods Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands Report. Luxury category   Conducted by influential market research firm Millward Brown, Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands Report is monitoring the value of the great brands around the globe for a full seven years. This year almost half of the Top … Read more

Oscar-winning Roman Polanski returned to Cannes… with a Prada Ad

  After Cannes screened the documentary “Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir,” made up of filmed interviews with the Oscar-winning Roman Polanski, the director surprised everyone with his new fashion ad for the Italian luxury house Prada. Described by its creator as “a sort of anti-ad”, the film was a proof to the world that Polanski … Read more

Tod’s to relaunch iconic Elsa Schiaparelli fashion house

The opening of the “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossibile conversations” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York was the perfect moment for an important announcement for the world of fashion. Diego Della Valle, owner of Tod’s Group, intends to relaunch the iconic Italian fashion brand Elsa Schiaparelli. Della Valle purchased the rights to the Elsa … Read more

Prada 2011 net profit beating forecasts

  Italian fashion house Prada reported a 2011 net profit of 431.9 million euros beating a Thomson Reuters forecast of 415.83 million euros, annouced reuters. Prada posted a 72 percent rise in full-year net profit. Prada’s shares listed in Hong Kong have gained 41 percent since the start of 2012. Milan-based Prada is seen as … Read more

Golden Age of Hollywood studio icons: Prada MenswearSpring/Summer 2012 Campaign

For Spring Summer 2012 campaign, Prada re-modelled actor Michael Pitt as a Golden Age of Hollywood studio icon in a striking series of performative portraits. Shot by world-renowned fashion and portrait photographer David Sims, the images of the Prada Spring/Summer 2012 menswear campaign are presented in rich tones and deeply saturated colours echoing 1950s studio … Read more