Fashion: Luxury’s new look. After two profitable decades, the sector is fragmenting as tastes in emerging markets shift When, after years of record revenues, Burberry issued a profit warning in September, it rocked the luxury world. “They basically said – and I’m paraphrasing – luxury is going sour and so are we,” says Thomas Tochtermann of McKinsey & Company, the consultancy. It looked as though they were right.
In rapid succession, Britain’s Mulbalso issued a profit warning; Tiffany of the US announced a 30 per cent drop in third-quarter earnings compared with the same time last year and Louis Vuitton reported “the softest growth ... in the past 12 years”, Melanie Flouquet, an analyst at JPMorgan, wrote in a note. At the same time, however, Hermès raised its sales and profitability targets; and the Prada Group’s earnings were up 50 per cent in the nine months to September, compared with a year earlier. It was as though there were two different luxury realities. Luca Solca of Exane BNP Paribas, agrees. Burberry (UK)
Luxury goods in China: Riding the gilded tiger. India's online jewellery business: Culture and clicks. Waarom accessoires steeds duurder worden - Accessoires - Mode. Waarom worden accessoires steeds duurder? En vooral: waarom blijven we ze nog steeds kopen? Wat volgt is geen veroordeling, louter een helder moment van een slachtoffer. Van hogeschoolstudent tot huismoeder; elke trendbewuste vrouw lijkt momenteel wel de Willow sneakers van Isabel Marant aan haar voeten te hebben. Sneakers met een ingebouwde hak, volledig in het suede. Waarom hebben we er geen probleem mee om een schoenenkast ter waarde van een kleine auto te bezitten? Manolo Blahniks, een koopje? Wanneer we het over schoenen hebben, denken we automatisch aan Carrie Bradshaw, het Sex & The City personage dat de Manolo Blahniks op de kaart zette.
En toch. “Ja, de prijzen zijn enorm de hoogte in geschoten”, zegt Daniella Vitale van de luxueuze Amerikaanse multimerkenwinkel Barneys aan Women’s Wear Daily. Handtassen: de harde realiteit U leest ons niet verklaren dat designertassen vroeger goedkoper waren. Toch hoeven we ons daar niet door te laten doen. The Creative Class | Bandana Tewari. PARIS, France — Bandana Tewari has made a name for herself as one of the fashion industry’s smartest commentators.
As fashion features director of Vogue India, she has quickly become the go-to source for anyone who wants to learn about the country’s rapidly evolving luxury market. Recently, she was named to Industrie magazine’s Fashion Media A-list, alongside other leading fashion commentators including Cathy Horyn, Tim Blanks and Suzy Menkes. So, I am delighted to reveal that Bandana Tewari will pen a regular column for The Business of Fashion, offering her unique perspective on the Indian luxury market, starting with this interview originally conducted for Industrie. I sat down with Bandana in between shows during Paris Fashion Week in September to talk about India’s fast growing fashion market, tailoring luxury products to Indian sensibilities, the power of Bollywood and wearing Tarun Tahiliani saris with Manolo Blahniks. BT: In India everything happened so quickly. BT: Absolutely.
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