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What We’ve Read: How Rimowa’s Partnership with Off-White Puts a Spotlight on Luxury Streetwear

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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. Luxury Sales Are Rebounding in China. Just Not in Stores.

Mainland China sales — especially online — are set to account for much of the growth in the global luxury market this year, according to a new report.

Read this on NYTimes.

2. Inside Rimowa’s Off-White Collaboration with Virgil Abloh and Alexandre Arnault

The luxury streetwear collaboration features a transparent polycarbonate suitcase and follows a successful partnership between Rimowa and Supreme.

Read this on Business of Fashion.

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3. A. Lange & Söhne CEO Wilhelm Schmid Talks Cars, Watches, And Concorso

After a walk around arguably the finest vintage car show in the world, I spoke with Lange's CEO about watches, cars, the collector gene, and more.

Read this on Hodinkee.

4. How Millennials Became the World’s Most Powerful Consumers

They are the biggest global generation — and their choices ​​are upending business​ from the US to China.

Read this on Financial Times.

Cover image credit: Rimowa

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 Rimowa’s Partnership with Off-White Puts a Spotlight on Luxury Streetwear

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. Luxury Sales Are Rebounding in China. Just Not in Stores.

Mainland China sales — especially online — are set to account for much of the growth in the global luxury market this year, according to a new report.

Read this on NYTimes.

2. Inside Rimowa’s Off-White Collaboration with Virgil Abloh and Alexandre Arnault

The luxury streetwear collaboration features a transparent polycarbonate suitcase and follows a successful partnership between Rimowa and Supreme.

Read this on Business of Fashion.

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

3. A. Lange & Söhne CEO Wilhelm Schmid Talks Cars, Watches, And Concorso

After a walk around arguably the finest vintage car show in the world, I spoke with Lange's CEO about watches, cars, the collector gene, and more.

Read this on Hodinkee.

4. How Millennials Became the World’s Most Powerful Consumers

They are the biggest global generation — and their choices ​​are upending business​ from the US to China.

Read this on Financial Times.

Cover image credit: Rimowa

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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