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Lessons from Kate Moss

By RANKIN CREATIVE Luxury is an artform. And like all great artforms, the ultimate state it can achieve is timelessness. Timeless brands and timeless pieces that ascend the seasonal churn and live on an eternal plain. Rise above new technologies, trends and fads, audiences, moments, and markets. Chanel. The Birkin bag. Icons. Almost mythical. It’s […]

The Luxury Hospitality Trends Report: An Industry in Flux

By Matter of Form We’re proud to work with some of the biggest brands in luxury hospitality and from these projects we identify endless insights and opportunities for the wider industry. So we’re summarising six key shifts defining the state of luxury hospitality, for brands and buyers who want stat-backed strategy to cut through the […]

The Best Exotic Metaverse Hotel:
Imagining a Virtual Hotel for the Web3 Age

By Matter Of Form As a team of 70 craft-honing, culture-tapping creatives obsessed with designing what’s next, it should come as no surprise our latest paper is our musings on what hospitality means when real-life amenities and physical service are stripped away. We asked questions like what hidden meanings and rituals could be leveraged when […]

A New Age of Collaboration Between Hotels and Luxury Brands

By Isabel Tapp, Founder of Luxury Communications Council, GCC Chapter In the GCC, we’re no strangers to collaborations between hotels and luxury fashion houses, with the likes of Armani Hotel, Palazzo Versace and Bulgari Resort in Dubai – hotels and resorts that are the living, breathing embodiment of their respective brands. And while hotels have […]

China’s Great Reopening: Five Key Takeaways

By Adam Knight, TONG Cofounder Three years of Zero-Covid restrictions have taken their toll on global travel retail and hospitality. As the last of China’s pandemic measures were lifted at the beginning of this year, how quickly should we expect Chinese outbound travel to recover, how have the expectations of China’s travelling shoppers changed, and […]

Diamond Disrupters Challenge Mayfair’s Traditional Luxury Market

Financial Times Discreet showrooms in the affluent area of central London are attracting a values-oriented millennial clientele. From Tiffany to Graff, legacy diamond marques have long been drawn to London’s Mayfair district. Lately, though, disrupters have been arriving with non-traditional strategies that include discreet, appointment-only showrooms and made-to-order jewellery. Some strip out costs while attempting […]

From Louis Vuitton to Bottega Veneta, Ordre Group Is Powering Luxury Latest Tech Moves

JING DAILY The Ordre Group has been quietly powering the fashion metaverse since before the word even appeared in the dictionary. Despite remaining under the average consumer’s radar, the leading technology firm has guided a number of luxury brands and retailers (including Louis Vuitton, Loewe, The Row, and Bottega Veneta) towards innovation. Last month, the group teamed […]

What’s Next for the Luxury Market?

J.P. Morgan Insights The luxury market should see two vastly different dynamics playing out in the coming months. How will this impact luxury shoppers and brands? During the current cost-of-living crisis, consumers are cutting back on spending — but demand for luxury goods remains high. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the luxury market grew 7% […]

What Does the ‘Quiet luxury’ Movement Mean For How Luxury Brands Communicate?

It feels like we’ve reached the peak of something. An era of creativity that didn’t shout, but screamed. Stole our attention with unlikely collaborations and delighted us with technological innovations. Call it the era of maximalism. But on the runways that set the tone for the industry, a trend is emerging that suggests we’re entering […]

Six things you didn’t know about Middle Eastern Fashion

By Isabel Tapp, Founder of Luxury Communications Council, GCC Chapter It’s often not until they holiday in Marrakech, that people realise Yves Saint Laurent isn’t French. Originally born in Algeria, the designer lived half the year in Morocco, bringing inspired designs back to France, then onto the world of fashion. And there were many more […]

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