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Aspirational Consumers Pull Back, Driving Down Luxury Leaders’ U.S. Sales

The leading global luxury brands showed topline gains for the first half of the year, despite a drop in sales in the U.S., where aspirational consumers are stretched thin and have cut back on indulgent purchases. In most recent reporting, all but Kering showed outstanding topline gains – LVMH was up 15% to $46.5 billion […]

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Farfetch Gets Closer To Being The ‘Amazon of Luxury’ Through Its Richemont-YNAP Deal

Farfetch and investors have been through a whirlwind recently. First, Farfecth announced an agreement to acquire 47.5% of Richemont’s YOOX Net-A-Porter (YNAP) online fashion group along with replatforming most of Richemont’s Maisons, including Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Piaget, under Farfetch Platform Solution (FPS). Then a day later, it reported second-quarter earnings. It’s going […]

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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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