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What We’ve Read: Welcome to China’s KOL Clone Factories

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Meaghan Corzine

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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. Welcome to China’s KOL Clone Factories

They are admired by millions of young fans for their looks, style and seeming authenticity, but behind the scenes, many of China’s digital influencers are the product of opaque incubators.

Read this on Business of Fashion.

2. Luxury’s Chess Masters Prepare for a New Game

A series of strategic shifts in the boardrooms and back rooms of the world’s biggest luxury groups — LVMH, Kering and Richemont — has been underway in recent months.

Read this on The New York Times.

3. Prada Revives Archive Prints For MyTheresa Tie-Up

For its second collaboration with Munich-based e-tailer MyTheresa.com, Prada has revisited some of its most recognisable prints.

Read this on Vogue.

4. Genderless Makeup Brand Jecca Is L'Oréal's Latest Startup Squeeze

Makeup has no gender. That’s according to Jessica Blacker, the British founder of rising unisex makeup startup Jecca.

Read this on Forbes.

5. Richemont Retools For A Changing 21st Century Marketplace

How the giant watch group is dealing with e-commerce, the grey market, a wholesale watch slump, the pre-owned watch boom, and more.

Read this on Hodinkee.

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Meaghan Corzine
Meaghan Corzine

Writer at Luxury Society

Before joining the editorial team at Luxury Society, Meaghan was based out of New York City writing for CBS New York and NBC Universal. A Washington-D.C. native, Meaghan also wrote for Washington Life Magazine while studying journalism at university. After moving to Switzerland in 2016, she went on to contribute to Metropolitan Magazine and CBS affiliates before joining the LS team.

RETAIL

What We’ve Read: Welcome to China’s KOL Clone Factories

by

Meaghan Corzine

|

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. Welcome to China’s KOL Clone Factories

They are admired by millions of young fans for their looks, style and seeming authenticity, but behind the scenes, many of China’s digital influencers are the product of opaque incubators.

Read this on Business of Fashion.

2. Luxury’s Chess Masters Prepare for a New Game

A series of strategic shifts in the boardrooms and back rooms of the world’s biggest luxury groups — LVMH, Kering and Richemont — has been underway in recent months.

Read this on The New York Times.

3. Prada Revives Archive Prints For MyTheresa Tie-Up

For its second collaboration with Munich-based e-tailer MyTheresa.com, Prada has revisited some of its most recognisable prints.

Read this on Vogue.

4. Genderless Makeup Brand Jecca Is L'Oréal's Latest Startup Squeeze

Makeup has no gender. That’s according to Jessica Blacker, the British founder of rising unisex makeup startup Jecca.

Read this on Forbes.

5. Richemont Retools For A Changing 21st Century Marketplace

How the giant watch group is dealing with e-commerce, the grey market, a wholesale watch slump, the pre-owned watch boom, and more.

Read this on Hodinkee.

Join Luxury Society to have more articles like this delivered directly to your inbox

Cover image credt: Free Photos CC/Pexels

Meaghan Corzine
Meaghan Corzine

Writer at Luxury Society

Before joining the editorial team at Luxury Society, Meaghan was based out of New York City writing for CBS New York and NBC Universal. A Washington-D.C. native, Meaghan also wrote for Washington Life Magazine while studying journalism at university. After moving to Switzerland in 2016, she went on to contribute to Metropolitan Magazine and CBS affiliates before joining the LS team.

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