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What We’ve Read: Zenith is Making Waves in Innovation while Richemont Thrives in Sales Growth

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Luxury Society’s selection of news articles that are not to be missed this week.

Over the last decade, collaborations between luxury brands and contemporary artists have gone beyond mere artistic partnerships towards a new kind of luxury branding.

PARIS – Art and fashion have always developed side by side, for fashion, like art, often gives visual expression to the cultural zeitgeist. During the 1920s, Salvador Dalí created dresses for Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiapparelli. In the 1930s, Ferragamo’s shoes commissioned designs for advertisements from Futurist painter Lucio Venna, while Gianni Versace commissioned works from artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Roy Lichtenstein for the launch of his collections. Yves Saint Laurent’s vast art collection, recently auctioned at Christie’s in Paris, testified to his great love of art and revealed the influence of a variety of artists on his own designs.

In the 1980s, relationships between luxury brands and artists were advanced when Alain Dominique Perrin created the Fondation Cartier. In the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, a book marking the foundation’s 20th anniversary, Perrin says he makes “a connection between all the different sorts of arts, and luxury goods are a kind of art. Luxury goods are handicrafts of art, applied art.”

The Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemparain building in Paris

Luxury Society’s selection of news articles that are not to be missed this week.

1. Zenith's New Super Oscillator Reinvents the Mechanical Watch Movement

Zenith's new Defy Lab, with its single-piece oscillator, has re-engineered the luxury watch industry by becoming the most accurate mechanical watch of all time.

Read this on Forbes.

2. Apple Watch Surpasses Rolex as Most-Popular Watch Globally

Apple is now a key player in the watch industry as it partners up with luxury brand royalty, Hermès, and stretches its influence over watch enthusiasts.

Read this on Luxury Daily.

3. Richemont's Luxury Valuation

Richemont's Cartier watches and Love bracelets have helped propel the brand to new heights by achieving the fastest sales growth period since 2012. But investors should be on watch, the revival of bling won't happen in a straight line.

Read this on Bloomberg.

4. Glossy 50: Evolution of Luxury

The honorees in the Evolution of Luxury category are the men and women who are contributing to the transformation of fashion, luxury, beauty and technology. Featured are their contributions to their industries' new directions.

Read this on Glossy.

Cover Image Credit: Zenith

Camille Lake

Writer, Luxury Society

Before joining the editorial team at Luxury Society, Camille worked with a South African magazine, The Month, as well as a Swiss digital publication, Luxuria Lifestyle. She then went on to join the team at a leading business publication in Geneva, Bilan Magazine.

EVENTS

What We’ve Read: Zenith is Making Waves in Innovation while Richemont Thrives in Sales Growth

by

Camille Lake

|

This is the featured image caption
Credit : This is the featured image credit

Luxury Society’s selection of news articles that are not to be missed this week.

Over the last decade, collaborations between luxury brands and contemporary artists have gone beyond mere artistic partnerships towards a new kind of luxury branding.

PARIS – Art and fashion have always developed side by side, for fashion, like art, often gives visual expression to the cultural zeitgeist. During the 1920s, Salvador Dalí created dresses for Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiapparelli. In the 1930s, Ferragamo’s shoes commissioned designs for advertisements from Futurist painter Lucio Venna, while Gianni Versace commissioned works from artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Roy Lichtenstein for the launch of his collections. Yves Saint Laurent’s vast art collection, recently auctioned at Christie’s in Paris, testified to his great love of art and revealed the influence of a variety of artists on his own designs.

In the 1980s, relationships between luxury brands and artists were advanced when Alain Dominique Perrin created the Fondation Cartier. In the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, a book marking the foundation’s 20th anniversary, Perrin says he makes “a connection between all the different sorts of arts, and luxury goods are a kind of art. Luxury goods are handicrafts of art, applied art.”

The Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemparain building in Paris

Luxury Society’s selection of news articles that are not to be missed this week.

1. Zenith's New Super Oscillator Reinvents the Mechanical Watch Movement

Zenith's new Defy Lab, with its single-piece oscillator, has re-engineered the luxury watch industry by becoming the most accurate mechanical watch of all time.

Read this on Forbes.

2. Apple Watch Surpasses Rolex as Most-Popular Watch Globally

Apple is now a key player in the watch industry as it partners up with luxury brand royalty, Hermès, and stretches its influence over watch enthusiasts.

Read this on Luxury Daily.

3. Richemont's Luxury Valuation

Richemont's Cartier watches and Love bracelets have helped propel the brand to new heights by achieving the fastest sales growth period since 2012. But investors should be on watch, the revival of bling won't happen in a straight line.

Read this on Bloomberg.

4. Glossy 50: Evolution of Luxury

The honorees in the Evolution of Luxury category are the men and women who are contributing to the transformation of fashion, luxury, beauty and technology. Featured are their contributions to their industries' new directions.

Read this on Glossy.

Cover Image Credit: Zenith

Camille Lake

Writer, Luxury Society

Before joining the editorial team at Luxury Society, Camille worked with a South African magazine, The Month, as well as a Swiss digital publication, Luxuria Lifestyle. She then went on to join the team at a leading business publication in Geneva, Bilan Magazine.

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