Luxury Society’s selection of news articles that are not to be missed this week.
What We’ve Read: Chanel Leads in China with Fashion Accessories
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. China's JD.com Makes Push to Lure European Luxury Brands
The Chinese e-commerce company made a pitch on Wednesday to attract more European luxury brands to its site, saying it could offer faster delivery and better protection against fakes than bigger rival Alibaba Group Holding.
Read this on NYTimes.
2. Chinese Luxury Market: Chanel Tops in Handbags and Fashion Apparel
Second place went to Gucci for handbags and Armani for fashion apparel, according to an RBC study.
Read this on WWD.
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3. Why The RealReal And Stella McCartney Are Calling For Luxury Brands To Embrace Reselling
How an unprecedented partnership is gunning for industry-wide change in how luxury fashion operates.
Read this on Forbes.
4. Interview with Jean-Christophe Babin: "Today's Vintage is the Style of People Who Have No Ideas of their Own"
With one foot in jewellery and the other in watches, Bulgari’s CEO Jean-Christophe Babin interprets the radical changes taking place in the industry with a sharp eye.
Read this on Europa Star.
5. Yoox Net-a-Porter Launches High-End Jewellery Section
The online retailer is consolidating its push into hard luxury, and expects to reach €1 billion in revenue by 2020.
Read this on Business of Fashion.
Cover image credit: Chanel. Image: Spring 2018 ad campaign.
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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.