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Italy Calls Out Dior For Unethical Supply Chain And Warns Other Luxury Brands About Abuses

A Milan court just placed LVMH’s Christian Dior brand under judicial administration for a year after an investigation found two of its Chinese-owned subcontractors based outside Milan had exploited their workers. This followed a similar judgment in April against Giorgio Armani for “culpably failing” to oversee its suppliers, according to Reuters.While Dior was not held […]

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RH Remains Far From The Summit Of ‘Luxury Mountain’

In RH’s first quarter 2024 report to Wall Street, CEO Gary Friedman tried to put a positive spin on otherwise depressing news – the lipstick-on-a-pig metaphor comes to mind.For years, Friedman has defined the long-term vision for RH to “climb the luxury mountain,” but it reached its peak in fiscal 2021 with revenues of $3.8 […]

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Are Luxury Consumers Ready For Chanel To Change Creative Direction?

Rumors have persisted for years that Chanel’s artistic director Virginie Viard was on her way out. However, in early May at the Marseille cruise collection show, Chanel president of fashion and accessories Bruno Pavlovsky disabused those rumors, emphatically stating to Fashion Network:“Virginie is doing extremely well. You know, ever since she succeeded Karl Lagerfeld, certain […]

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Luxury Brands Have An Innovation Gap: Here’s The Fix

In the classic Annie Hall movie, Woody Allen’s character memorably said, “A relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.”  Brands are a lot like sharks. To avoid dying, they’ve got to keep moving forward and that means they must innovate.For legacy luxury brands steeped in heritage, innovation presents a challenge. […]

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How Luxury Brands Can Bridge The Innovation Gap With GenAI

There’s lots of talk in luxury brand circles about GenAI reshaping luxury innovation. The upcoming Luxury Innovation Summit to be held in October in Geneva will be devoted to exactly that topic. Over 500 executives are expected to attend to find out how.For legacy luxury brands steeped in heritage, innovation presents a challenge. Too much change implemented […]

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