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- 10 Aug 2010

Fashionable Distraction, Beautiful Strangers and an Education in Luxury

The sound bites and statistics that are causing a stir in luxury circles

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 Gone are the days when it was easy to sell luxury goods based on the allure of the brand alone. 

Spokeswoman for the University of Monaco on their new MA degree in Luxury Retail Management
BBC News

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29%

the rise in Prada’s first half sales despite their recent financial restructuring

Bloomberg

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 Tumbling yesterday out of the dark clouds of recession, unemployment and austerity came that gleaming almanac of glamour and self-indulgence, the September Issue of Vogue. 

Alexander Chancellor
(on the power of luxury to distract and transport)
Telegraph

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667,200

the number of millionaires
resident in New York in 2009

Luxuo

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 We’ve had the age of supermodels as fashion icons and the age of celebrities. Now comes the age of attractive strangers. 

WSJ commentary on the power of the street style shot.
Wall Street Journal

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$1 billion

the revenue generated by
online private sample sales last year

Los Angeles Times

Members opinion

  • Karen Weiner Escalera Generation Y: Luxury's Most Buoyant Market by Karen Weiner Escalera 3 May 2012
  • Isa Lavs Luxury Shopping in the UK: How the Market Continues to Grow by Isa Lavs 1 May 2012
  • Marina Cozzika South Africa’s Luxury Consumers Buck International Trends by Marina Cozzika 25 Apr 2012
  • Sophie Maxwell Has Luxury Brand Diversification Gone Too Far? by Sophie Maxwell 18 Apr 2012

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