Luxury Briefing.

It may be climate change, it might even be my age, but I am sure that summers are getting shorter. When I was a lad, at about the time the Wright Brothers were inaugurating the first budget airline, the aestival months stretched into infinity: a great rolling prairie of time in which the autumn, with its resumption of study, was little more than a dimly glimpsed, shadowy mountain range in the distance...

Damian Bentley IMAGINE there was a foolproof way of marketing to your customers. A way that was bespoke, individualised and completely...

Year-to-date (as of 30 Aug 2011), the TAG Luxury Stock Index increased 6.9%, well above the major indices, which fell...

Audi produces a bewildering array of models to satisfy every conceivable need. Now there is a new one for the...

ON Fifth Avenue, Ghurka is taking over the former A Testoni store, no 781, in the Sherry-Netherland. Louis Vuitton expands...

Fendi has completed the acquisition of the former Mallett Gallery at 141-142 New Bond Street, and 44 Old Bond Street...

The importance of value to the wealthy As the global market for luxury resurges, credit cards for the wealthy are...

Sofitel Luxury Hotels The first Sofitel has opened in Guangzhou (formerly Canton, in southern China), increasing its network in China to...

Candles as luxurious, artisan products? As fashion, even? Could this be commercial in a day and age in which candles of all shapes, sizes and flavours are, quite simply, everywhere? Absolutely, says Jonathan Ward, whose artful hand-pouring techniques are making all the difference. KATE PATRICK sees the light

Representing the third largest beauty market in the world, Brazil has emerged as an important potential consumer of prestige beauty products, with luxury cosmetics sales expected to climb at a high-single-digit annual pace over the next five years. While the vast majority of the estimated $35bn Brazilian cosmetics market comprises mass brands, the prestige business (only around 1%-2% of sales in Brazil vs 25%-30% in the US and 40% in Japan) is gaining momentum thanks to strong economic growth and more women entering the workforce