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Robb Young

Luxury & Fashion Business Journalist, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Vogue.com Strategic Consultant, Swiss Textiles Award, Diptrics

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Luxury & Fashion Business Journalist, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Vogue.com Strategic Consultant, Swiss Textiles Award, Diptrics

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DIGITAL6 min read

Ask the Luxury Oracle & the ‘Pro’ on the Virtual Street

How Luxury Society members compare with the experts when defining a good website

CONSUMERS8 min read

Taxing the Wealthy: A New Era of ‘Collective Philanthropy’?

The ‘death’ of certain tax havens, debates on ‘tax flight’ and a few outspoken billionaires volunteering to pay higher taxes have some in the luxury industry in a tizzy – but how relevant is it all?

CAMPAIGNS7 min read

Executive Aviation’s New Highs & New Lows

Like in so many other sectors of the luxury industry, the private aviation market seems to be going through a phase of extremes

LEADERS9 min read

Robert Gaymer-Jones, CEO, Sofitel

Sofitel’s Worldwide CEO Robert Gaymer-Jones tells us why he shuttered scores of hotels to get the brand’s positioning right and why even the Arab Spring uprising doesn’t deter his upcoming…
DIGITAL5 min read

News & Clues about China’s Online Luxury Boom

From studies on how the wealthy use social media to the imminent explosion of new luxury e-commerce sites like Sina Shepin, this week’s headlines were all about China’s web reality

LEADERS5 min read

Yacht Makers Point to Shipyards Further East and South

From Brazil to Brunei, could the future of yacht manufacturing be in places where people once only bought big boats – or used to dream of owning one?

EVENTS6 min read

Paris Couture: Brandishing Both Confidence and Confusion

Critics singled out two extreme themes from this season’s roster of fall/winter collections and they say a lot about the business of couture

EVENTS7 min read

Paris Air Show Reveals Asia’s Growing Prowess and Progress

Airlines in Asia and the Middle East are upping the ante of luxury air travel through several enhancements to the first class and business cabins of their aircrafts

RETAIL6 min read

What Prada’s IPO Says about the Bigger Picture

A shifting of the centre of gravity toward Asia is just one of many insights to be garnered from the company’s recent flotation in Hong Kong

CONSUMERS4 min read

The Enigma of China’s Newly Cosmopolitan Consumer

By virtually anyone’s account, there is only one way for most of China’s wealthy citizens to go and that is up, up and up – but could there be challenges ahead?