Luxury Society’s selection of news articles that are not to be missed this week.
What We’ve Read: IWC’s 150th Birthday and Why Kim Jones is Leaving Louis Vuitton

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. IWC Schaffhausen Celebrates 150 Years
The festivities begin with the introduction of a Jubilee collection this week but will continue with events around the world.
Read this on New York Times.
2. Kim Jones Exiting Louis Vuitton
The artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear is set to leave the LVMH-owned mega-brand after seven years.
Read this on Business of Fashion.
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3. China Luxury Sales Rebound as Millennials Snap Up Cosmetics, Handbags
China’s luxury goods market is back in fashion.
Read this on Reuters.
4. Burberry's Lost in a Fashion Wilderness
It really needs a top creative director to turn things around.
Read this on Bloomberg.
Cover image credit: Louis Vuitton.
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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.