Luxury Briefing.

People keep on saying that the old media are dead. But I think that’s wrong. Certainly, you would have to be at the non-responsive end of the Glasgow Coma Scale not to accept that change is in the air, but one essential truth is that no new medium has ever replaced its predecessor...

EVERY year at The Future Laboratory we sit down with clients and look at the Future of Luxury. This year...

I have won life’s lottery, but I have never, ever won anything else. Horses, poker, football pools, tennis, chess, nada. Until this year’s British Airways Media Party...

OUR appearance at the Luxury Briefing Conference came in the midst of three other events that we attended. They covered...

BY now, anyone reading this will have reached their absolute limit on the subject of gift giving and getting, in,...

HERE you are, nearing the end of your new copy of Luxury Briefing, facing the beginning of a new season...

I’D be lying if I said 2009 didn’t start with a number of people holding their breath in the luxury...

I began my recent Recession Watch Vigil in St James’s. In the study of the sombre comportment of today’s luxury consumer, this part of SW1 is of significance comparable to the Olduvai Gorge in the study of the larrikin antics of early leaf-chewing early hominids...

THE hospitality and leisure sector has undergone unprecedented changes over the past decade. Buoyed by the growth of low-cost airfares...

I’d like to be remembered for a sort of stylish, bruised optimism rather than acidulous disenchantment, but I do find myself wondering ever more recurrently if the greater part of our assumptions about luxury are misplaced....