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LS Recommends: Events in Monaco, Lausanne & Buenos Aires
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An essential round-up of must know events for luxury professionals, including the Le Rendez-Vous de l’Horlogerie de Monaco & The Boutique Hotel Summit, London An essential round-up of must know…
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
An essential round-up of must know events for luxury professionals, including the Le Rendez-Vous de l’Horlogerie de Monaco & The Boutique Hotel Summit, London
An essential round-up of must know events for luxury professionals, including the Le Rendez-Vous de l’Horlogerie de Monaco & The Boutique Hotel Summit, London.
This month we recommend Le Rendez-Vous de l’Horlogerie in Monaco, for amateurs, enthusiasts and collectors of haute Horlogerie to connect, enthuse and even participate in Horlogerie workshops with timepiece craftsmen, presented by the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie. On the business side of things and as an official partner, we once again invite members to attend the 2011 FT Business of Luxury Summit, to explore the economic issues facing the luxury industry today.
On the other side of the world, the Luxury Business Conference in Argentina presents a unique tribute to French luxury, in the presence of Ambassador of France, M. Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian, as Argentina celebrates the Year of France in 2011. And finally, we invite hospitality professionals to discuss the finer points and the future of boutique accommodations at the inaugural Boutique Hotel Summit in London.
Le Rendez-Vous de l’Horlogerie de Monaco
May 30 | Monaco
After the success of the debut Le Rendez-Vous de l’Horlogerie, a second event will be held in Monaco in May, under the Patronage of HSH Prince Albert II. The invitation-only exhibition will take place at the Grimaldi Forum, enabling a targeted audience of amateurs, enthusiasts and collectors of new and fine watch brands, to meet timepiece artisans and industry leaders. This year, the exhibition style event will debut a new VIP area, private spaces for brands and Horlogerie workshops with craftsmen, presented by the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie.
Brands participating include Cyrus, Dior, Montblanc, Ladoire, Vertu, Piaget, Cartier, Pequignet, Manufacture Royale, Chanel, Corum and more, in partnership with Barclays Wealth Monaco, Rolls Royce, Metropole Monte-Carlo, Global Blue and Davidoff.
LS Event Page: Le Rendez-Vous de l’Horlogerie
FT Business of Luxury Summit
June 5-7 | Lausanne
In partnership with Luxury Society, the Financial Times presents the third annual Business of Luxury Summit in Lausanne. The event brings together senior luxury executives, business leaders and financiers from around the world, to discuss the theme “What Price Luxury?” and explore the economic issues facing the luxury industry today. Specifically the event will examine the effects of globalisation and currency fluctuations, pricing and positioning, the revival of mergers and acquisitions and the on-going issue of counterfeiting.
Speakers include: Thierry Andretta, CEO, Lanvin; Jean-Claude Biver, CEO, Hublot SA; Frederick Lukoff, President & CEO, Stella McCartney and Isabelle Guichot, President & CEO, Balenciaga.
LS Event Page: FT Business of Luxury Summit
The Luxury Business Conference
June 14 | Buenos Aires
The Luxury Business Conference in Argentina serves as a framework to launch a new vision for the luxury and premium market in Argentina through innovation and management tools, and provide attendees an opportunity to increase networking and to generate concrete business opportunities.
From the exchange of knowledge and reflection on management practices, entrepreneurs and professionals will present to an exclusive audience their impressions, insights, experiences and success stories, as Argentina celebrates the Year of France in 2011. The Luxury Business Conference launches its second edition as a unique tribute to French luxury, in the presence of Ambassador of France, M. Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian and an elite group of specialists from France’s luxury & premium sectors.
LS Event Page: The Luxury Business Conference
Boutique Hotel Summit
June 14 | London
The Boutique Hotel Summit seeks to bring together industry professionals to discuss the latest trends in sales, marketing, branding, finance and design, at its inaugural conference in 2011. As the boutique hotel sector experiences a boom, where both small independents and large multi-nationals are investing heavily to establish a presence, the summit will discuss the recent history of boutique hotels, branding and public relations, key investment players in the sector, and of course, the future.
Following an opening cocktail reception, attendees will be invited to discuss the following topics: what defines a boutique hotel? PR, marketing and the mystique of a boutique hotel, performance of the segment, how to brand a boutique property, the profitability of restaurants and bars, who are the boutique hotel investors of today and tomorrow? And finally, where do we go from here?
LS Event Page: Boutique Hotel Summit
Creative Strategist, Digital
Sophie Doran is currently Senior Creative Strategist, Digital at Karla Otto. Prior to this role, she was the Paris-based editor-in-chief of Luxury Society. Prior to joining Luxury Society, Sophie completed her MBA in Melbourne, Australia, with a focus on luxury brand dynamics and leadership, whilst simultaneously working in management roles for several luxury retailers.
