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What We’ve Read: How Smartphone Apps Are Connecting China’s Millennial Luxury Travellers

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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 Singles' Day in China Became the Biggest Shopping Spree

For Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., that was the year co-founder Jack Ma created China’s first retail extravaganza around the holiday of Singles’ Day.

Read this on Business of Fashion

2. What Can Luxury Brands Learn From Gucci About Millennials?

In 2017, Gucci's sales grew by 44.6% over the previous year. And in the first quarter of 2018, the luxury brand posted nearly $2.2 billion in sales revenue, up 48.7% compared to the same period last year.

Read this on Forbes

3. Fashion Company Mistake? Blame the Weather

Saying that poor earnings are caused by a long summer or cold winter is a way to cover up a preventable error.

Read this on Bloomberg

4. How smartphone apps are connecting China's millennial luxury travellers

Before customers only cared about if they like the product, now the care more about whether their purchase make sense. It is time to rethink how can we make money without making new stuff.

Read this on South China Morning Post

5. The 2018 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève

Our thoughts on this year's winners, direct from Geneva.

Read this on Hodinkee

Cléa Emery

Writer at Luxury Society

Cléa Emery is writer at Luxury Society. Based in Geneva, Cléa was previously part of the Digital Marketing team of Solar Impulse. She now contributes to managing the Luxury Society platform. Cléa is also Marketing & Communication specialist at DLG, the parent company of Luxury Society.

RETAIL

What We’ve Read: How Smartphone Apps Are Connecting China’s Millennial Luxury Travellers

by

Cléa Emery

|

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 Singles' Day in China Became the Biggest Shopping Spree

For Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., that was the year co-founder Jack Ma created China’s first retail extravaganza around the holiday of Singles’ Day.

Read this on Business of Fashion

2. What Can Luxury Brands Learn From Gucci About Millennials?

In 2017, Gucci's sales grew by 44.6% over the previous year. And in the first quarter of 2018, the luxury brand posted nearly $2.2 billion in sales revenue, up 48.7% compared to the same period last year.

Read this on Forbes

3. Fashion Company Mistake? Blame the Weather

Saying that poor earnings are caused by a long summer or cold winter is a way to cover up a preventable error.

Read this on Bloomberg

4. How smartphone apps are connecting China's millennial luxury travellers

Before customers only cared about if they like the product, now the care more about whether their purchase make sense. It is time to rethink how can we make money without making new stuff.

Read this on South China Morning Post

5. The 2018 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève

Our thoughts on this year's winners, direct from Geneva.

Read this on Hodinkee

Cléa Emery

Writer at Luxury Society

Cléa Emery is writer at Luxury Society. Based in Geneva, Cléa was previously part of the Digital Marketing team of Solar Impulse. She now contributes to managing the Luxury Society platform. Cléa is also Marketing & Communication specialist at DLG, the parent company of Luxury Society.

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