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Trunks of Treasure: How Vilebrequin and Orlebar Brown Are Tapping the...
SAINT-TROPEZ, France — Winding down the Corniche, one of Europe’s most breath-taking roads, and descending into Saint-Tropez from the direction of Monte Carlo, the super-yachts cruising the bay below...
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Made in America | From Detroit’s Urban Decay, Shinola Rises
DETROIT, Michigan — America’s “Motor City,” once world famous for the scale of its automobile manufacturing industry, filed for bankruptcy on July 22 in the largest municipal collapse in US history. In...
View ArticleThe White Space to Help Emerging Designers Cut Through the NYFW Clutter
NEW YORK, United States — With more than 250 presentations and runway shows set to take place during the Spring 2014 season of New York Fashion Week, which kicks off next week, it’s no stretch to say...
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Market Pulse | Syria Crisis Pours Cold Water Over the Savigny Luxury Index
LONDON, United Kingdom — Despite a string of positive results announcements, the Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) lost 0.9 percent in August, nevertheless outperforming the MSCI World Index (“MSCI”) by...
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Acronym’s Uncompromising Focus on Function
BERLIN, Germany — You’d be forgiven for not knowing much about Acronym. The company never advertises and with no public relations strategy to speak of, its founders are tough to reach. They prefer to...
View ArticleAirport Retail Flying High
LONDON, United Kingdom — Christian Dior’s dove grey carpets and boudoir mirrors vie for the eyes of customers with Prada’s harlequin tiles. The polished hardware of Dolce and Gabbana handbags glint,...
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Hood By Air’s Ascent
NEW YORK, United States — “It’s been personal, about wanting to look really good. I never set out to change the menswear market. It was about integrating the downtown skate thing with being from...
View ArticleFrom Brooklyn to Mumbai to London, Bespoke Tailoring Shows Signs of Growth
LONDON, United Kingdom — On a quiet street in Brooklyn, the demand for handmade suits from the area’s concentration of young professionals is so high that a husband-and-wife team of haberdashers has...
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In Miami’s Design District, A Mix of Culture and Commerce Is Set to Grow
MIAMI, United States — True grit lies beneath the increasingly well-manicured streets of Miami’s Design District. While luxury shoppers might visit the area’s graffiti-covered Louis Vuitton store — and...
View ArticleThe Long View | When Computers Know How You Feel
CAMBRIDGE, United States — Recent advances in neuroscience reveal that emotions are at the very core of human decision-making. Rather than cognitive thought, emotion is what fundamentally drives the...
View ArticleAre Blockbuster Museum Shows Helping or Hurting Smaller Fashion Exhibitions?
NEW YORK, United States — It was the legendary Diana Vreeland, former American Vogue editor and special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute from 1973 to 1987, who said successful...
View ArticleThe Gatekeepers Who Hold the Keys to Japanese Fashion
TOKYO, Japan — All it takes is 24 mindboggling hours in Tokyo’s retail jungle before the penny drops. As seen through the eyes of an eager international shopper, the city certainly surpasses itself as...
View ArticleLondon Collections: Men | If You Build It, They Will Come — But Will They Buy?
LONDON, United Kingdom — Tomorrow, at 5pm, London Collections: Men will enter its third season. In one year Dylan Jones, editor of GQ (UK) and chair of London Collections: Men, with strong support from...
View ArticleSouth Asian American Designers with Strong Ties to Home Make Their Mark
NEW YORK, United States — Amongst a rapidly rising crop of New York-based Asian American designers, including bold-faced names like Jason Wu, Alexander Wang and Phillip Lim, is a subset of design...
View ArticleApple-like Ecosystems for Luxury Brands?
LONDON, United Kingdom — It’s often said that Apple has applied the rules of fashion to the marketing of its popular iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. But luxury brands also have much to learn from the...
View ArticleA Wave of Men’s Only Flagships
LONDON, United States — A glamorous Kate Moss stares lasciviously from a framed photograph on the wall, while chairs upholstered in rich brocade evoke an 18th-century Italian salon. One floor below, an...
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Market Pulse | After the Age of Abundance
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) lost 4.5 percent in June, doing a little worse than the MSCI World Index (“MSCI”) which also lost ground. Sales of luxury goods are slowing...
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The Rise of the Fashion Sweatshirt
NEW YORK, United States — Once reserved for the gym and lazy weekends, the humble sweatshirt has emerged as a high fashion hero piece for both men and women, regularly appearing on top tier runways and...
View ArticleHow Creatures of the Wind Found Their Ideal Investor
NEW YORK, United States — For several seasons, between 2008 and 2012, Shane Gabier and Chris Peters weren’t sure if their fledgling fashion label, Creatures of the Wind, would survive. “We were...
View ArticleWheels of Fortune: The Rise of Rapha
LONDON, United Kingdom — When this reporter arrived at the headquarters of cycle apparel brand Rapha, located in a quiet street in Kentish Town, their public relations officer arrived at the door...
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