Affluent Americans are pulling back in luxury spending. LVMH, Tapestry, Capri Holdings and Ralph Lauren are seeing the results in their latest earnings reports.
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Conspicuous Consumption Is Back: Navigating Millennial Status Motivation For Luxury Brands
A new survey finds affluent Millennials are keen to purchase luxury goods for the status they confer, calling on luxury brands to embrace their customers’ status needs.
Resolving The Tension Between Quiet Luxury and Status-Seeking Conspicuous Consumption
A New York minute ago, quiet luxury replaced conspicuous consumption and became all the rage. Now it’s retreated from the headlines with fashion insiders rejecting the phrase as too overused: “An overly TikTok-ified way of describing classic, refined clothing,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli, who fully embraces the trend if not the terminology, […]
Why Lovesac Keeps Winning While Other Furniture Brands Falter
As the furniture industry reels from a dramatic drop in consumer demand, Lovesac overcame market headwinds to report 7.5% growth in revenue in fiscal year 2024, reaching $700 million from $651 million the previous year.Lovesac’s advance is remarkable, given that furniture retail revenues dropped 5.7% in 2023 to $75.2 billion from an historic high of […]
Store Closures Can Hurt More Than Help Retailers’ Bottom Line
Everybody knows that opening a store in a new location can have a positive impact on sales not just in that location but in online traffic overall. It’s the “Halo Effect.” But closing a store can result in more than just lost sales in that particular store. That’s called the “Horn Effect,” the negative flip […]
