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What We’ve Read: How Brick-and-Mortar is Battling E-commerce and Why Stella McCartney Bought Back Her Brand

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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. How These Brick-and-Mortar Stores Keep Up with E-commerce

Some brick-and-mortar retailers are reimagining the retail concept and the use of space to deliver more experiences and attractions that consumers cannot find online.

Read this on Luxury Insider.

2. Stella McCartney Buys Back 50% of Namesake Brand, to Build Independent Business

Following a partnership which lasted 17 years, British fashion designer Stella McCartney buys the 50% share previously owned by French luxury conglomerate Kering.

Read this on Forbes.

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3. Baselworld 2018 The Show Fights For Its Life

There will be a show in 2019. After that, nobody knows.

Read this on Hodinkee.

4. Apparel Resale Market Expected to Hit $41 Billion by 2022

Secondhand shopping is gaining acceptance and popularity among young shoppers and even the rich.

Read this on WWD.

5. The Fascinating World of Instagram’s “Virtual” Celebrities

Gorgeous, popular, sought-after by brands… but these models on Instagram aren't real. They're digitally created. And to a lot of people, that doesn't matter at all.

Read this on BBC.

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: How Brick-and-Mortar is Battling E-commerce and Why Stella McCartney Bought Back Her Brand

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. How These Brick-and-Mortar Stores Keep Up with E-commerce

Some brick-and-mortar retailers are reimagining the retail concept and the use of space to deliver more experiences and attractions that consumers cannot find online.

Read this on Luxury Insider.

2. Stella McCartney Buys Back 50% of Namesake Brand, to Build Independent Business

Following a partnership which lasted 17 years, British fashion designer Stella McCartney buys the 50% share previously owned by French luxury conglomerate Kering.

Read this on Forbes.

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

3. Baselworld 2018 The Show Fights For Its Life

There will be a show in 2019. After that, nobody knows.

Read this on Hodinkee.

4. Apparel Resale Market Expected to Hit $41 Billion by 2022

Secondhand shopping is gaining acceptance and popularity among young shoppers and even the rich.

Read this on WWD.

5. The Fascinating World of Instagram’s “Virtual” Celebrities

Gorgeous, popular, sought-after by brands… but these models on Instagram aren't real. They're digitally created. And to a lot of people, that doesn't matter at all.

Read this on BBC.

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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