Luxury Briefing.

EXPO SHANGHAI, which launched in May and runs until October 31 this year, has sparked a flurry of new luxury...

IT’S hard to believe that Petersham Nurseries only opened its elegant, Victorian, wrought-iron gates six years ago. A constant fixture...

The world’s 8.6m high net worth individuals – each with investable assets greater than $1m – have dropped an average 20% of their combined wealth. And despite the fountain of youth appearing in luxury advertising, the core consumer base is ageing and feels stressed. Yet luxury remains a $227 bn global business, so it can breathe out. In this presentation to the American Express Publishing Luxury Summit, Cynthic McFarlanbe, President Saatchi & Saatchi Latin America, presents some emerging revelations about high net worth consumers in today’s new economic reality, sharing the learnings from Saatchi’s recent Luxury Xploring project.

In the eight years since he gave up a career in advertising and went into designing and manufacturing shoes, RUPERT SANDERSON has developed a thriving and award-winning niche business with stores and distribution in all the key markets – including recently-opened boutiques in Paris and Hong Kong – and a devoted following of sophisticated women shoppers and celebrities too. He tells Luxury Brie?ng how taking things steadily and combining integrity with some well thought-out business decisions is now paying dividends

ON Madison Avenue, Rossano Ferretti opens a lavish salon at no 595. Swiss jeweler Orianne Collins will have its first...

THE identity of the new accessories brand at 8 Sloane Street is Zagliani, after a last-minute attempt by Rolex to...

The Porsche Turbo became a symbol of the Gordon Gekko, red-braces 1980s. Preferably also in red, with a large tea...

LAST year saw a record amount of compensation and benefits paid out across Wall Street, but the remuneration for CEOs...

ART is a dialogue – between society and its people, between aesthetics and value and, more and more, between the...

Year-to-date (as of 18.5.10), the TAG Luxury Stock Index rose 6.0%, surpassing the major market indices, which fell (2.7%) on...