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This Week: What’s Ailing Louis Vuitton?
LVMH is expected to report another quarter of falling sales. With a creative revamp underway at Dior and new management in place at Moët Hennessy, the group’s biggest and most profitable brand is facing scrutiny.
If You Can’t Trust Loro Piana, Who Can You Trust?
This week, court documents linking the top-end brand to Chinese sweatshops outside Milan called the entire luxury sector’s credibility into question.
Could Travel Sizes Get Sent Packing?
The TSA might nix its long-loathed ban on full-size personal care products. What will it mean for the $32 billion airport beauty business if “travel-size” bottles become as retro as iPods?
Opinion: The Big Luxury Simulation Is Over
Consumers appear to be calling time on an industry that long ago stopped selling real luxury goods, writes Eugene Rabkin.
Burberry Sales Fall Less Than Expected as Turnaround Gains Traction
Comparable retail sales fell by 1 percent in the first quarter, suggesting CEO Joshua Schulman’s revamp strategy is working.
Sneaker Resale Isn’t the Business It Used To Be
Premiums are down across the board and the top brands in footwear are just getting back to being interesting again. Here's how resellers are navigating these new, murky waters.
Tiffany Angers Rich Clients Who Wanted to Buy Rare Patek Watch
The jeweller bungled the release of a coveted Nautilus timepiece, alienating some customers and fracturing its relationship with Patek Philippe.
Are Luxury Megabrands Broken?
Simultaneous crises at LVMH, Kering and Chanel suggest all is not well with the luxury megabrand model, but many of the headwinds they face may reverse in the coming years, writes Luca Solca.
Can an Ultra-Fast Fashion Brand Be ‘Sustainable’?
US-Australian Shein competitor Princess Polly recently received B Corp certification, gaining a coveted stamp of approval from one of the world’s leading corporate responsibility labels.
Just How Big Can Fashion Substack Get?
Brands, podcasters and influencers with massive followings are joining the platform. But some veterans say that growth comes at a price.
Beauty Cashes in on the Return of the Summer Blockbuster
From ‘Smurfs’ to ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’, big-budget films are an increasingly popular marketing tie-in for beauty companies — especially when their founder is also a star.
Ludivine Pont Named CEO of Santa Maria Novella
Balenciaga’s chief marketeer is leaving the Kering-owned brand to take the reins of the private equity-backed perfume house founded in 1221.