Harvard’s Luxury Goods Conference
Does the “Made In Italy” Label Have Intrinsic Value? The rising euro and the falling dollar have had a wide variety of effects in the world of luxury goods. For the holiday shopping season, Eur...
Italian Goldsmiths Facing Troubling Times Times are hard for the traditional artisans of Italy. Back in December I wrote about Italian luxury fashion labels dealing with higher manuf...
If you’ve got a little money in your pocket and you are heading down to Target or Costco, you just might be a luxury
shopper. These are the top two favorite stores of those making $350,000 per year according to
the wisdom from the Retail & Luxury Goods conference held at Harvard Business School
on April 3. Luxury shoppers tend to combine trips to discount retailers with those to more posh shoping
venues. Topics at the conference included the fate of the department store, online retailing, and the delicate art of
“masstige” which sounds like a new spa treatment but actually refers to marketing luxury to the masses. A
bonus for attendees was a swag bag including a brown tote from Elie Tahari, a
leather business card holder from IWC, and Bigelow beauty products.
Luxury Magazine Hatched From Timepiece Mag hr:, a magazine heretofore devoted to mechanical timepieces, is attempting to reinvent itself with a new focus on the broader category of lu...
Montblanc Announces Jewelry Line Luxury pen maker, Montblanc is creating a line of women's jewelry to add to their collections of pens, watches, men's accessories a...
Cond茅 Nast Traveller Launches ‘The World of Luxury’ Discerning travelers and luxury aficionados now have a new source for locating the best high-end shopping destinations wherever they may roa...
Faberg茅 Ventures into Gemstones The company known around the world for the million-dollar ornamental eggs made for Russian Czars is taking a chance on gemstones. Faberg&eac...
Moscow’s Luxury Store Wars It's Macy's versus Gimbel's for Moscow as venerable retailers GUM and TSUM are locked in battle for Russia's burgeoning luxury clas...
Luxury Car Key Pendants Whether you own one of these luxury vehicles, or wish you could, the key pendants from Imperial Craftwork should be on your wish list. Choos...
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