Luxury Briefing.

1  Asia’s first Waldorf Astoria property is to open on the Bund in Shanghai. The hotel will be on the...

1 Although growth in 2008 may have been slower in other markets, Japan is the only market where luxury sales...

ONE of our predictions made back in 2003 was that critical to business success in the 00s and beyond would...

Year-to-date (as of 13/1/09), the TAG Luxury Stock Index was down 7.3%, underperforming the major market indices (year-to-date the Japan...

I am reliably contrarian with trends. In frank contradiction to the hibernation rhetoric of contemporary business, I am expanding my imperium with a new office in Soho. It is very white and flooded with light , floored with wood and really rather beautiful...

Michael Drake’s eponymous company is the UK’s largest manufacturer of handmade ties, turning out 4-5,000 a week to supply gentlemen’s outfitters all over the world. Drake has run a factory in Clerkenwell for 20 years (since before it was trendy), employing 45 people there and roughly the same number of home workers. The Italians love him and, in Japan, a glossy magazine voted Drakes the fourth most desirable luxury brand for men. KATE PATRICK hears why

WE have spent the last 20 years defining ourselves not by what we are but by what we have –...

Until now, truly ‘green’ vehicles have tended to be on the dull side. There have been almost no convincing electric...

Leonardo Di Caprio has been named as ambassador for Tag Heuer’s Carrera watch line to replace Brad Pitt, who has been contracted...

Auds is a new jewellery line from Audrey Ang. The Central Saint Martins-trained designer has formerly worked for Louis...