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Balmain Returns To Couture after 16 Years
The Balmain Army is marching into couture! Olivier Rousteing announced plans for the French fashion house to return to the Couture Week calendar recently at the WWD Retail & Apparel CEO Summit. As WWD reports, Rousteing is “looking to bring back the Parisian DNA” to the Balmain brand with a foray back into the haute couture world.…
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Chanel with Pharell Williams Join Forces for Exclusive Capsule Collection
Pharrell Williams has had a long-standing connection with Chanel. After being the face for several of the brand’s campaigns, the star is now ready to reveal an exclusive collection for the brand, expected to hit the markets early 2019. And considering Pharrell’s aesthetic as well as Chanel’s wondrous repute for quality, we are expecting nothing…
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Trend Alert! Omni-Channel Experiences By Luxury Brands
Omni-channel is a multi-channel sales approach that provides the customer with an integrated customer experience. The customer can be shopping online from a desktop or mobile device, by telephone, or in a bricks and mortar store but the brand experience would be seamless. The strategy of creating seamless experiences through multiple resources, Omni-channel, is certainly the future of retail, and for…
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Cartier is Committed To Responsible Sourcing and Ethical Mining
Trust is the pledge which binds Cartier and its customers together in every field, i.e. the quality and provenance of stones, the beauty and originality of the creation, the excellence of workmanship, the level of technical performance, attentive service and, in a world which is increasingly concerned about its future, the management of its social…
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First-Class Flying Is Back and More Luxurious Than Ever
First-class airline service has offered luxuries ranging from free-flowing Champagne and mountains of caviar in the early years to private cabins with a bed and shower on some carriers today. But after British Airways in 2000 introduced lie-flat seats in business class for thousands of dollars less than first—an innovation that quickly spread throughout the industry—it was…
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Inside the Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton SS19 Pop-up Store
Louis Vuitton has opened a pop-up store in Mayfair to showcase and also, sell a selection of key pieces from Virgil Abloh’s first collection for the brand for one week only, starting from Monday 22nd October 2018. Spanning some 2,000 ft in the former Stella McCartney store, the exhibition-come-temporary-flagship will be open to the public…
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Luxury Aficionado Deremi Ajidahun, and the Business Of Luxury Retail in Africa
Deremi Ajidahun, CEO of Hole19 Group and Zakaa retail stores, is determined to change the way Nigerians purchase fine watches and is often congratulated by Swiss CEOs on the appetite of Nigerians vacationing in Paris, London or New York for these luxury goods. The African retailer responds to this observation by expressing regret that they…
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Vogue’s Fashion Magazine Empire Still Leaving Out Africa
For far too long, some fashion insiders have claimed regions of “the rest,” the huge expanse including Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa have been treated as an afterthought. Once Vogue Arabia was released, supermodel Naomi Campbell implored the company to create a Vogue Africa through her platform as a contributing editor to…
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A New Kind of Company is Born with Baume by Baume & Mercier,
Richemont Group recently launched its new brand, an ambitious start-up aimed at reconnecting products with nature. The affordable, gender-less line of watches has been making headlines for its decision to use recycled and sustainable materials, but the merchandise isn’t the only thing that distinguishes Baume from other players in the luxury league. “The start-up model is probably…