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What We’ve Read: Kering’s CEO on Gucci’s Growth and How China is Looking To Invest in European Brands

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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. Kering CEO Pinault on Earnings, Gucci Brand, Millennial Growth

Kering CEO Francois-Henri Pinault discusses Gucci surpassing Hermès last year with 6.2 billion euros in annual sales and millennials’ growing appetite for luxury goods.

Read this on Bloomberg.

2. The Year of the Deal? Chinese Investors Wooing More European Brands

A new generation of Chinese investors is rapidly descending on Europe’s fashion and luxury brands.

Read this on WWD.

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3. IWC CEO Chris Grainger Talks About The Challenges Of Supply And Demand

A behind-the-curtain look at the nuts and bolts of the watch business.

Read this on Hodinkee.

4. Burberry’s Partnership With Farfetch Will Accelerate its See-now-buy-now Business Model

Farfetch is operating the entirety of Burberry's global e-commerce logistics, thus enabling it to deliver orders as they’re placed to London shoppers.

Read this on Glossy.

5. Jewelry Companies Vie for China's Independent Women in Marketing Blitz

Diamond companies worldwide are reshaping marketing campaigns for independent female spenders in China.

Read this on Reuters.

Cover image credit: Gucci

Camille Lake

Writer, Luxury Society

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.

RETAIL

What We’ve Read: Kering’s CEO on Gucci’s Growth and How China is Looking To Invest in European Brands

by

Camille Lake

|

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. Kering CEO Pinault on Earnings, Gucci Brand, Millennial Growth

Kering CEO Francois-Henri Pinault discusses Gucci surpassing Hermès last year with 6.2 billion euros in annual sales and millennials’ growing appetite for luxury goods.

Read this on Bloomberg.

2. The Year of the Deal? Chinese Investors Wooing More European Brands

A new generation of Chinese investors is rapidly descending on Europe’s fashion and luxury brands.

Read this on WWD.

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

3. IWC CEO Chris Grainger Talks About The Challenges Of Supply And Demand

A behind-the-curtain look at the nuts and bolts of the watch business.

Read this on Hodinkee.

4. Burberry’s Partnership With Farfetch Will Accelerate its See-now-buy-now Business Model

Farfetch is operating the entirety of Burberry's global e-commerce logistics, thus enabling it to deliver orders as they’re placed to London shoppers.

Read this on Glossy.

5. Jewelry Companies Vie for China's Independent Women in Marketing Blitz

Diamond companies worldwide are reshaping marketing campaigns for independent female spenders in China.

Read this on Reuters.

Cover image credit: Gucci

Camille Lake

Writer, Luxury Society

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.

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