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Luxury Market in Crisis: Disruption, Change, Reinvention

Luxe Is in Flux: The Luxury Industry in Crisis

Luxe is in flux.  That is the twitterverse headline for a new survey among more than 600 luxury executives about the state of the luxury industry.  What’s keeping these executives up at night are many and diverse, but it all boils down to this: We face a luxury industry in crisis.  The first thing to […]

Luxury woman shopper

Luxury Marketing’s Higher Calling – from the 4Ps to the 4Es

In 2013, the American Marketing Association changed the definition of marketing.  It went from the old 4Ps definition which most of us practicing marketers were drilled in: Product, Price, Promotion, Placement, to a new one based upon the idea of value: Judging from the sorry state of business today – the closing of 100 Macy’s […]

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What Makes a Brand Luxury? Why Montblanc & Shinola both earn the title

In a recent blog post, I posed the question, New Luxury, Old Luxury; Real Luxury, Faux Luxury – What’s a Brand to Do?   It got me thinking more about what exactly makes a brand ‘luxury.’ To research the question, I happened upon a section from my book, Putting the Luxe Back in Luxury:  How new […]

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New Luxury, Old Luxury; Real Luxury, Faux Luxury — What’s a Brand to Do?

The latest news cycle has revealed chasms growing in the land of luxury: In late July, LVMH, home of storied Louis Vuitton brand, reported that first half 2016 sales of its flagship fashion and leather luxury goods segment dropped .8% from same period last year. Then, on the cusp of NY Fashion Week, Tim Gunn […]

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Millennials on Road to Affluence

Millennial Weath Wave: When It Arrives, Will Your Brand Be Ready?

At a recent NYC Luxury Marketing Council meeting, Linda Ong, ceo of TruthCo., an omnichannel branding firm, said: “In 2017 Millennials will eclipse Baby Boomers in luxury spending.”   Sounds impressive and reassuring. But whether or not this prediction is true, this sound bite says nothing about what it means for your particular brand. Nor […]

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