Today in luxury – The paradise maker: Meet luxury resort designer Bill Bensley; Louis Vuitton looking to take My Other Bag case to Supreme Court; Forget $10K watches, there’s money in $2K handbags; What should Burberry do next?
Today in luxury – Fendi sets retail expansion in the US; Luxury home sales jump in New York’s Hamptons; The Mercedes pickup truck is finally here, sort of; Topshop hires from Burberry for new top job.
Today in luxury – Burberry to pay $2.54M after stiffing workers on overtime; LVMH confirms Eric Marechalle as CEO of Marc Jacobs; Advertising watchdog to get tough on gender stereotypes; Porsche may ditch diesel engine.
Today in luxury – Nearly a third of Burberry investors object to top executives’ pay; Tiny Qatar is living large despite monthlong Arab siege; Tag Heuer reaches settlement with Groupe Logo employees; Singapore luxury penthouse on sale for $72M sparks recovery hopes for high-end Asian market.
Luxury Daily’s live news from July 12 – Burberry retail revenues rise 3pc in Q1; Gucci builds out brand lifestyle with home furnishings collection; Stuart Weitzman’s fall ads take inspiration from ‘60s cinema; Roger Dubuis targets Chinese customers with motorsport-themed WeChat campaign; Colette to end 20-year retail run in December; Alexander McQueen draws from Iceland’s extremes for fall; Jenn-Air aims for frictionless cooking with Google Home control.
Returning customers’ strong spending helped boost Burberry’s revenues for the first quarter of the 2017 fiscal year.
Today in luxury – Tiffany hunts for path to regain “cool”; Fashion’s full disclosure — or not; Burberry investor Royal London to vote against pay report; The Bugatti Chiron is coming to the US, but who is buying it?
Today in luxury – Chanel scores win against Amazon sellers in counterfeit fight; No time for golf as Four Seasons founder Sharp eyes expansion; Burberry comes under pay pressure from investors; Judge orders Ivanka Trump to testify in footwear trademark infringement lawsuit brought By Aquazzura.
Apparel and accessories house Burberry is bottling the British countryside for a personalized perfume collection.
Luxury Daily’s live news from June 23 – Sephora saw 6x the engagement with use of digital personalization features; High-end fashion more likely to see fraud on mobile: Riskified; Gianluca Flore lands at Burberry as president Americas; Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art auction achieves $200.8M; Fendi, K-pop’s Taeyang co-design capsule; Manolo Blahnik, Rihanna team for last limited-edition capsule; St. Regis shakes up status quo of bubble tea.
