The announcement Estée Lauder’s former general manager Raffaella Cornaggia’s appointment as head of Kering group’s new beauty division caused a stir. Celebrity brands, such as Jennifer Aniston’s, are making a strong entrance into the coveted premium beauty market. The cake is getting smaller and the appetite, bigger.

What if NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) were the best way for luxury to regain some exclusivity on the web? Recent examples show that NFTs can be a private access to exclusive knowledge at a time when knowledge is a guarantee of social status and when brands have been able to sell this knowledge on social networks.

The rush of luxury brands to acquire prestigious vineyards in search of profitability and diversification continues. Climate change is affecting production capacity and the quality of terroirs. A phenomenon that pushes groups to diversify their supply.

Fabio Piras and Lutz Huell, directors of the Master in Fashion at Central Saint Martins and HEAD , respectively, talk about the importance of a teaching approach that is anchored in the current context.

While Argentina is facing an increasing economic crisis, the Argentine wine market is having its best year ever and is continuing to make solid progress on the international market.

Jean Cassegrain, heir to the Longchamp brand, was in Lausanne to inaugurate a new exclusive collaboration with the Cantonal Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts (mudac). It was an opportunity to unveil the brand’s prospects, including a large-scale hiring plan for over 450 employees by 2023, to meet the strong demand to come.

In 2100, people will still be going to winter sports, but they won’t practice them as they do today. Is global warming to blame? Not only. The resorts that are in danger must diversify and for the others, help might come, once again, through luxury.

In the aftermath of the G20 Summit in Bali, and as the island continues to attract an exponential flow of tourists to its main beach resorts, more and more foreigners are taking the plunge and investing in luxury villas, far from the coast.

They call it blue gold. Water, a precious resource with a renewal capacity that is becoming increasingly complicated, is coveted by large companies and billionaires looking for new investments. It has even been traded on the Chicago stock exchange since 2020.

As Argentines celebrate their World Cup title, the country wants to believe in a saving grace that will help turn around the economy, in crisis for years. However, some of the luxury sectors do not seem to have waited for this victory to find their audience, as some counter-intuitive consequences of inflation seem to abide by no rules.

While broad-based cyclical trends don’t seem to have a big impact on the luxury sector, the news-flow coming from China has largely dictated momentum so far in 2023.

If virtual reality is a revolution in progress, the figures show a contrasted truth. While Meta’s Reality Labs division dedicated to the development of the metaverse was losing $13.7 billion in 2022, including $4.3 billion during the fourth quarter, 141 virtual worlds were created overall, according to an analysis by the Politecnico di Milano University.

For India’s ultra high net wealth families, the wedding is the ultimate time to splurge. From commissioning multi million dollar bespoke bridal ensembles to hiring Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez for setting the dance floors on fire, nothing is off limits. Analysis.

The historical land of the Maharajas and the present day home of 36% of the world’s billionaires – India is swiftly attracting major luxury brands to its progressive shores. Despite the current retail inflation at 6.77%, India’s luxury goods market generated a revenue of nearly US$7.5bn in 2022.