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LUXURY SOCIETY 10,000

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Imran Amed

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Luxury Society welcomes our 10,000th member While those of you in the United Kingdom and United States were enjoying a long holiday weekend this past Monday, Luxury Society hit an…

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 welcomes our 10,000th member

While those of you in the United Kingdom and United States were enjoying a long holiday weekend this past Monday, Luxury Society hit an important milestone in our growth and development: we welcomed Alexander Schneider of Casa Camper, the boutique design hotels in Berlin and Barcelona, as our 10,000th member.

Since Alexander joined on Monday, we have welcomed even more new members to the LS fold from Lebanon, France, Singapore, UAE, Greece, Spain, USA, Japan, India, UK, South Africa, Russia, Hong Kong, Italy, Morocco, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Qatar — and all this in the past couple of days alone. Luxury Society is now a truly global community with members from over 100 countries.

Our next stage of development is to enable the community to connect more with each other, online and offline. Last week in Paris we hosted our first LS Social to celebrate our 10,000 member milestone, bringing together more than 300 LS members at La Maison 8, the former home of legendary fashion designer, Kenzo Takada. In the coming months, we are planning more events like this in luxury hubs around the world, so stay tuned.

I want to warmly welcome Alexander—and all of you who are new to Luxury Society—and hope that our networking tools, intelligent news and analysis, and industry services and job postings will be of value to you.

We look forward to your feedback and thank you for your continued support in inviting your friends and colleagues to join our trusted community.

Imran Amed
Editor-in-chief

Imran Amed
Imran Amed

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Imran Amed is a professional advisor, writer and entrepreneur operating at the intersection of business and fashion. He is the founder and editor in chief of The Business of Fashion and the former editor-in-chief of Luxury Society. Imran’s writing and point of view reflect the day-to-day insights of his work with international luxury brands and high potential fashion start-ups, where he acts as a bridge between the industry’s most gifted creative and business talent. Imran also advises private equity firms, investors and international corporations interested in the luxury market. Imran has contributed his expertise to the BBC’s British Style Genius and The New York Times and has published articles in The Financial Times, Vogue (India) and Style.com. Imran is an Associate Lecturer at London’s Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design.

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LUXURY SOCIETY 10,000

by

Imran Amed

|

This is the featured image caption
Credit : This is the featured image credit
Luxury Society welcomes our 10,000th member While those of you in the United Kingdom and United States were enjoying a long holiday weekend this past Monday, Luxury Society hit an…

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 welcomes our 10,000th member

While those of you in the United Kingdom and United States were enjoying a long holiday weekend this past Monday, Luxury Society hit an important milestone in our growth and development: we welcomed Alexander Schneider of Casa Camper, the boutique design hotels in Berlin and Barcelona, as our 10,000th member.

Since Alexander joined on Monday, we have welcomed even more new members to the LS fold from Lebanon, France, Singapore, UAE, Greece, Spain, USA, Japan, India, UK, South Africa, Russia, Hong Kong, Italy, Morocco, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Qatar — and all this in the past couple of days alone. Luxury Society is now a truly global community with members from over 100 countries.

Our next stage of development is to enable the community to connect more with each other, online and offline. Last week in Paris we hosted our first LS Social to celebrate our 10,000 member milestone, bringing together more than 300 LS members at La Maison 8, the former home of legendary fashion designer, Kenzo Takada. In the coming months, we are planning more events like this in luxury hubs around the world, so stay tuned.

I want to warmly welcome Alexander—and all of you who are new to Luxury Society—and hope that our networking tools, intelligent news and analysis, and industry services and job postings will be of value to you.

We look forward to your feedback and thank you for your continued support in inviting your friends and colleagues to join our trusted community.

Imran Amed
Editor-in-chief

Imran Amed
Imran Amed

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Imran Amed is a professional advisor, writer and entrepreneur operating at the intersection of business and fashion. He is the founder and editor in chief of The Business of Fashion and the former editor-in-chief of Luxury Society. Imran’s writing and point of view reflect the day-to-day insights of his work with international luxury brands and high potential fashion start-ups, where he acts as a bridge between the industry’s most gifted creative and business talent. Imran also advises private equity firms, investors and international corporations interested in the luxury market. Imran has contributed his expertise to the BBC’s British Style Genius and The New York Times and has published articles in The Financial Times, Vogue (India) and Style.com. Imran is an Associate Lecturer at London’s Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design.

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