Alexander McQueen Left London for Paris 25 Years Ago. Its Return Is Not a Nostalgia Move
On September 20, Seán McGirr shows his first London collection for Alexander McQueen a house that left for Paris a quar…
China Is Not Coming Back to Luxury the Way It Left It
Chinese luxury spending is stabilizing after two brutal years. But domestic spending, overseas shopping, wealthy consume…
Zendaya Is Not Prada's Muse. She Is Prada's New Position.
Prada Beauty just unveiled Europe's largest hand-painted mural in London, with Zendaya at its centre, days after her hus…
Luxury's Next Competitor May Not Be Another Brand. It May Be the Secondhand Market.
Nearly half of luxury shoppers now weigh resale value before buying new. Top-tier handbags retain roughly 72% of retail …
The Next Luxury Winners Won't Be the Biggest Brands. They'll Be the Most Desirable.
Size, revenue and heritage no longer reliably predict which luxury houses are winning in 2026. Pricing power validated b…
The Luxury Customer Is Changing. Brands Are Still Pricing for the Old One.
Third-party trackers report large increases at flagship luxury houses since 2019. Separate industry research describes a…
Luxury's Recovery Is Real. So Is the Shrinking of Who It's For.
Eight major luxury groups' H1 2026 results show genuine, documented revenue recovery. But revenue recovery and customer-…
Milan Is No Longer Just Italian Fashion's Capital. It's Becoming Its Test Lab.
This September's Milan Fashion Week runs 203 appointments across six days a large edition, on paper. Look at the strateg…
The Human Touch Is Becoming Fashion's Newest Luxury
Vogue World Milano's official theme, 'Where the Future Is Made by the Hand,' isn't just event branding. Prada Group's ow…
When AI Tells Fashion's Story, Who Decides What Stays?
Vogue World lands in Milan this month celebrating 'the human touch in the age of technology.' In the same weeks, the ind…
Michael Kors Is Betting the Turnaround on Being Michael Kors Again
At New York Fashion Week, Michael Kors Collection returned to the jet-set codes that built the label, financed by a hard…
What Kering Refuses to Cut
While Kering restructures a business still recovering from Gucci's steepest decline in years, its Caring for Women gala …
