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Shaping the Future of Luxury, Together.

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David Sadigh

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Introducing the new Luxury Society. The preferred online destination of luxury brand executives when it comes to embracing digital and the impact of technology on our industry.

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

Introducing the new Luxury Society. The preferred online destination of luxury brand executives when it comes to embracing digital and the impact of technology on our industry.

Welcome to the new Luxury Society.

The luxury industry is going through an unprecedented set of changes: luxury consumers are changing, China has become a top market for luxury consumption, travel retail is more important than ever, and the global geo-political climate leaves much uncertainty.

Our vision is that technology and digitalization are the most important underlying forces shaping the future of the luxury industry. Digitalization is impacting the way brands communicate, the way they sell and build relationships with their consumers, and also the way they have to operate to remain relevant and desirable in a digital age.

APPLY TO BECOME A LUXURY SOCIETY MEMBER

The new Luxury Society will focus on the Shaping the Future of Luxury and on the specific opportunities lying ahead. We seek to answer questions such as:

  • Who are tomorrow’s leading luxury brands?
  • Who is the luxury consumer? How are they evolving?
  • How to really understand Chinese customers?
  • What are the new growth opportunities for brands?

To start this exciting new journey, we have asked NYT Journalist and JCK Editor-in-Chief Victoria Gomelsky to walk us through what 10 Thought Leaders Believe Luxury Brands Must Do To Stay Relevant, we’ve asked HODINKEE’s Stephen Pulvirent to share with us How Zenith & Hodinkee Sold Out of Their Limited Edition Watch (in Under an Hour), and we're proud to share interviews with venerable watch brand A. Lange & Söhne's CEO, Wilhelm Schmid and legendary CEO of LVMH Watches, Jean-Claude Biver (thanks to our partner Jing Daily).

I’m looking forward to starting this new chapter with you, and keen to hear your feedback and ideas linked to the future of the Luxury Industry.

David Sadigh

Publisher & CEO

P.S. If you haven’t had the chance to register for our upcoming Luxury Society Keynote event taking place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai on November 25, 2016, be sure to do so now.

David Sadigh
David Sadigh

Founder & CEO, Luxury Society

Publisher of Luxury Society and Founder & CEO of Digital Luxury Group.

EVENTS

Shaping the Future of Luxury, Together.

by

David Sadigh

|

This is the featured image caption
Credit : This is the featured image credit

Introducing the new Luxury Society. The preferred online destination of luxury brand executives when it comes to embracing digital and the impact of technology on our industry.

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

Introducing the new Luxury Society. The preferred online destination of luxury brand executives when it comes to embracing digital and the impact of technology on our industry.

Welcome to the new Luxury Society.

The luxury industry is going through an unprecedented set of changes: luxury consumers are changing, China has become a top market for luxury consumption, travel retail is more important than ever, and the global geo-political climate leaves much uncertainty.

Our vision is that technology and digitalization are the most important underlying forces shaping the future of the luxury industry. Digitalization is impacting the way brands communicate, the way they sell and build relationships with their consumers, and also the way they have to operate to remain relevant and desirable in a digital age.

APPLY TO BECOME A LUXURY SOCIETY MEMBER

The new Luxury Society will focus on the Shaping the Future of Luxury and on the specific opportunities lying ahead. We seek to answer questions such as:

  • Who are tomorrow’s leading luxury brands?
  • Who is the luxury consumer? How are they evolving?
  • How to really understand Chinese customers?
  • What are the new growth opportunities for brands?

To start this exciting new journey, we have asked NYT Journalist and JCK Editor-in-Chief Victoria Gomelsky to walk us through what 10 Thought Leaders Believe Luxury Brands Must Do To Stay Relevant, we’ve asked HODINKEE’s Stephen Pulvirent to share with us How Zenith & Hodinkee Sold Out of Their Limited Edition Watch (in Under an Hour), and we're proud to share interviews with venerable watch brand A. Lange & Söhne's CEO, Wilhelm Schmid and legendary CEO of LVMH Watches, Jean-Claude Biver (thanks to our partner Jing Daily).

I’m looking forward to starting this new chapter with you, and keen to hear your feedback and ideas linked to the future of the Luxury Industry.

David Sadigh

Publisher & CEO

P.S. If you haven’t had the chance to register for our upcoming Luxury Society Keynote event taking place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai on November 25, 2016, be sure to do so now.

David Sadigh
David Sadigh

Founder & CEO, Luxury Society

Publisher of Luxury Society and Founder & CEO of Digital Luxury Group.

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