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What’s Balenciaga To Do About The Harry Potter Meme?

Balenciaga, the luxury brand owned by Kering, is making news again after being caught up in a cultural firestorm late last year when it featured children in what many considered an over-sexualized way. Now it is facing another threat: dilution through satire. YouTuber demonflyingfox reimagined the Harry Potter cast of characters as Balenciaga models, poking fun […]

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Consumer’s Cognitive Biases Are Keeping Spending Strong, For Now

The National Retail Federation (NRF) is out with its 2023 retail forecast; on its face, it’s reassuring. Retail sales growth in 2023 should exceed the 3.6% average growth level tracked in the pre-pandemic years from 2013 through 2019. So far, consumers have kept retail sales buoyant, thanks to their psychological makeup, but soon, their shopping […]

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In Luxury, Exclusivity Means Being The Incomparable One Among Many. Neiman Marcus Gets It.

Nordstrom recently disappointed Wall Street when it announced a 4.1% decline in sales during its fourth quarter covering November 2022 through January 2023. It started Fiscal 2022 strong, with sales up 18.7%, then with each successive quarter, sales slowed. It followed a pattern seen widely across the luxury market and reported here. Luxury brands far […]

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Need Better, More Up-To-Date Information On Luxury Consumers To Plan Your Next Moves? Free Trial

Over the last three years, the luxury market has experienced a whirlwind of change. After rising 7 percent in 2019 before the pandemic, it suffered a steep decline in 2020, only to bounce back with spectacular growth through 2021 and 2022. Now the economy is under threat again with the banking crisis, rising interest rates, […]

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Former Lululemon CEO Christine Day Chose The Corporateneur Path And Founded House Of LR&C

There’s a growing crisis in retail C-suites. Nobody wants the top job. Christine Day, who rose through the ranks at Starbucks to head its Asia-Pacific division and served five years as CEO of Lululemon where she quadrupled company revenues and more than tripled its store footprint, would be a perfect fit for any of the […]

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