Luxury Briefing.

Today heritage is a term that is used with a sort of wilful abandon. In fact I would guess that ‘heritage of the brand’ fights it out with ‘DNA of the brand’ for the title of most abused marketing cliché...

Year-to-date, the TAG Luxury Stock Index increased 5.0%, outperforming most of the major indices, which fell (1.7%) on average. Year-to-date,...

Despite the plethora of models on offer today, have you noticed that an iconic car has been missing? The gorgeous...

LUXURY brands today are under increasing pressure from shareholders to deliver extraordinary returns. While the rest of the world suffers...

LAST year High Net Worth reported on the importance of country of origin to high-end consumers around the world, with...

Bottega Veneta A fourth store in Shanghai – and 22nd in China – has been opened by Bottega Veneta. The boutique,...

...the story of the Tregothnan estate in Cornwall began. With a centuries-old tradition of planting rare and wonderful species from around the world to create magical gardens, this was a place that needed a big new idea to take it forward. The answer: become a tea plantation. KATE PATRICK talked to the head gardener-turned commercial director about luxury tea and the importance of being English

On Madison Avenue, Armani Junior’s first US store will be at 1223. Collette Vintage will offer major designer apparel at...

A month by month review of early 2012 and the leasing activity of the major groups confirms London’s position as...

The rise in the number of bourgeois during the industrialist age enabled craftsmen to establish themselves as respectable institutions – ie luxury brands – in their own right, rather than as mere suppliers to a single wealthy person. Simultaneously it was the increase in the application of knowledge to the art of making things – which industrialisation brought about – which enabled them to do it cost effectively. Just as the industrialist age gave birth to luxury via the development of knowledge-augmented craftsmanship, so the technologist age now gives birth to an entirely new category of luxury: technoluxe. In this extract from a lecture he gave as part of McCann Erickson’s Thought Leaders programme in Lima, Luxury Brie?ng’s digital thinker ALEXANDER GALLE discusses...