With the launch of three ready-to-serve cocktails in the United States, House of Hennessy is marking one of the boldest strategic shifts in its history: making cognac more accessible without compromising its heritage. Charles Delapalme, at the helm of the house, explains his vision.

A key market for Swiss gold, India will likely reduce its global gold imports this year, after the country’s prime minister urged citizens to pause gold purchases.

Starting this week, Luxury Tribune launches The Fine Line of Luxury, an editorial cartoon designed to offer a fresh take on the luxury industry. Conceived as a complement to our analyses, interviews, and news coverage, it will provide a different perspective each week on the issues driving the sector.

The Chinese personal luxury market has contracted for two consecutive years. However, the brands that managed to grow in this environment were not European. From Mao Geping to Songmont, and from Laopu to ICICLE, Chinese luxury brands have successfully developed a different strategic model.

In Milan, the issue of subcontractors – brought to light, among others, by the Loro Piana case – reveals the flip side of an industrial model in which artisanal excellence coexists with production lines that are becoming increasingly difficult to control.

Between the Upper East Side and Soho, Manhattan has redrawn the boundaries of luxury. With recent openings and the exodus of galleries to the Lower East Side, the Big Apple proves that “brick-and-mortar” isn’t dead: it’s just become more exclusive, more artistic, and radically experiential.

Long seen as Asia’s discreet manufacturing hub rather than its glamorous showcase, Vietnam is undergoing a major transformation. Southeast Asia’s most capitalist communist country is now attracting the world’s leading luxury brands at an almost defiant pace. It has even seen an influx of Russian, Korean, and European visitors since the conflict in the Middle East.

As COP 30 began on Monday in Belém, Brazil, the climate emergency also calls for rapid action to address the environmental impact of the textile industry. To this end, every year, the Textile Exchange Conference brings together all the players in the sector. This year, in Lisbon, Portugal, the theme was ‘Shifting Landscapes’.

The luxury hospitality industry recently appears to be making a decisive shift toward a more sustainable approach. Far from being a mere marketing strategy, these hotels – though still rare worldwide – are rising to the challenge of 360-degree sustainability.

Lisbon Fashion Week, an event with strong growth potential and still little known, highlighted emerging talents to watch closely, whose focus remains primarily on sustainability, innovation and manufacturing know-how.

This summer, an Italian probe uncovered a worrying reality: luxury brands like Armani and Dior have been producing their high-end goods in Chinese-owned sweatshops in […]