High Price Drives Consumer Demand For Luxury Brands

“Price functions as a fee for the right to exhibit the logo of a well-known brand and co-brand … [+] oneself,” J.P. Kapferer and P. Valette-Florence report. getty The personal luxury goods...

Q&A with Lauren Remington Platt, FTX’s new head of global luxury partnerships

FTX recently appointed Lauren Remington Platt as its head of global luxury partnerships, a brand-new position at the crypto exchange. In an interview with The Block, Platt — formerly the co-foun...

Nordstrom And Luxury Brands Help The Smiley Face Celebrate Its 50th Birthday

Nordstrom has opened Smiley face themed shops in 10 of its department stores in honor or the 50th … [+] anniversary of the iconic image. Nordstrom It’s the face that has launched millions of lic...

Italians reveal their favorite places to go on vacation — in Italy

Italy is home to some of the world’s most famous cities, art, wine and beaches. Think Florence, Rome and Venice with their abundant Renaissance architecture and well-known galleries, Tuscany wit...

Fashionphile Bags Nearly $500 Million In Revenue As Post-Pandemic Inflation Further Fuels The Luxury Resale Market

Reimagining ‘Recommerce’: Fashionphile’s headquarters in Carlsbad, California. Fashionphile After graduating law school in 1999, Sarah Davis started a modest eBay store called Fashio...

How Russia, France And The American Dream Gave Rise To Washington State’s First Luxury Wine

Mach One Vineyard of Quilceda Creek Winery – 50 vertical feet above the mighty Columbia River in … [+] Washington State Quilceda Creek When Paul Golitzin was growing up in Snohomish, Washi...

FTX Hires Beauty Entrepreneur Lauren Remington Platt to Target Luxury Partnerships

The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set ...

FTX Hires a Former Model, Marks Its Entry Into the Luxury Market

After a boom in the last year, the cryptocurrency projects are working towards bringing this lucrative market to the mainstream business industries. Following this trend, FTX will now bring cryptocurr...

After Sports And Gaming, FTX Eying $300 Billion Luxury Goods Market

Crypto Exchange FTX has seen significant expansion over the past 12 months, foraying into the areas of gaming and sports. Now the Crypto Exchange is eying partnerships in the luxury goods market and i...

FTX moves into $300 billion luxury fashion industry with new hire

Crypto exchange FTX has appointed beauty entrepreneur Lauren Remington Platt as its head of global luxury partnerships, a newly-created position.  With a decade of experience, Platt is the founder of ...

Jack Nicklaus, Justin Thomas team up to launch ultra luxury Florida golf community

Rendering of Panther National Clubhouse Courtesy: Panther National A golf legend and a one of the PGA’s hottest young stars are teaming up to create a luxury golf community in Palm Beach County,...

Luxury Fashion Meets Innovation With the Unified Futugo App

The modern luxury consumer has to jump over many hoops to access the many resources they need. Between the wide assortment of social media platforms, eCommerce marketplaces, blogs and magazines, and n...

Warby Parker plans to take on glasses giant EssilorLuxottica

A worker dusts a display of Ray-Ban sunglasses, manufactured by EssilorLuxottica, in a store in Barcelona, Spain, on June 30, 2021. Bloomberg | Getty Images Eyewear company Warby Parker is at an infle...

No strategy to increase prices despite dim fourth quarter

French luxury goods brand Hermes said Friday it has “no strategy” to significantly increase prices of its prized products despite disappointing fourth quarter results which saw supply fail...

Insider tips on visiting French wineries beyond Bordeaux and Burgundy

More wineries in France are opening to visitors, said a French wine tourism expert.   Of France’s 87,000 wineries, only 13% were open to the public five years ago, said Martin Lhuillier, head of...

5 Luxury Stocks Gurus Are Falling In Love With

Summary Tapestry, Signet Jewelers, Movado Group, Fossil Group and Richemont are among gurus’ favorites. As lovebirds around the world celebrate Valentine’s Day, investors may want to consider co...

Australia, New Zealand, Bali, Malaysia, Philippines reopen for travel

Another day — another border reopens.       In the past two weeks, a slew of countries announced plans to reopen or relax border restrictions. This includes places that have maintained some of the str...

Luxury Auction House Sotheby’s Plans to Auction 104 Cryptopunks Worth an Estimated $20M – Bitcoin News

On Tuesday, the British-founded American multinational luxury auction company Sotheby’s, headquartered in New York City, announced the auction house is planning to auction a lot of 104 non-fungible to...

Where Crypto, NFT And Luxury Brands Merge

Internet Made NFT fashion design Courtesy of Internet Made While a decade ago, it would have sounded like something out of a sci-fi action movie, the metaverse has become a bonafide part of the modern...

The grandest mansions in France and Italy to buy, rent or visit

The Chateau de Chambord, in the Loire Valley region of France. DEA / C. SAPPA | De Agostini | Getty Images France and Italy are home to some of the most storied castles, palaces and grand homes in the...

Bitcoin Entrepreneurs Are Buying Luxury Yachts

Raphael Sauleau is the CEO of Fraser, a firm that specializes in luxury boats. He says young people are becoming bitcoin millionaires, and many of them are now in the habit of buying yachts. Yachts Ar...

Luxury Resale Is On Fire And TheRealReal Lit The Fuse

“We showed people the value of things they had locked in their closets and we changed the way people … [+] perceive resale,” says Julie Wainwright, TheRealReal. getty When Prince Charles h...

Harvard medical professor says it’s time to move on from pandemic

It’s time to let the young, healthy and “anyone who wants to move on” from the pandemic do so, said Dr. Stefanos Kales, a professor at Harvard Medical School. In a paper posted on Li...

Aston Martin launches luxury SUV DBX707

LONDON — British carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda on Tuesday launched a new non-electric SUV called the DBX707. “It will be, and is, the greatest ultra-luxury, high performance SUV in the world,...

It’s Time For More Revenue Sharing And A Luxury Tax In College Football

ATLANTA, GA – JANUARY 08: Najee Harris #22 of the Alabama Crimson Tide runs the ball during the … [+] second half against the Georgia Bulldogs in the CFP National Championship presented by...

Heading Toward NBA Trade Deadline, Boston Celtics Still Eyeing Luxury Tax

The Celtics, featuring Jaylen Brown (middle), Jayson Tatum (right) and Marcus Smart (left) figure to … [+] remain intact in Febraury. Boston Globe via Getty Images There is a voice calling the C...

LVMH CEO Arnault says ‘we have to be wary of bubbles’ with the metaverse

French luxury group LVMH Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bernard Arnault Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images LVMH Chief Executive Bernard Arnault said Thursday that the metaverse could become a bu...

Singapore says it’s ready for 2022 travel demand when it returns

There are “encouraging signs of recovery” in Singapore’s tourism sector, according to the Singapore Tourism Board. Visitor arrivals reached 330,000 and tourism receipts reached an es...

A food guide to the Thai capital

Bangkok revels in its status as a culinary mecca. From wizened street vendors who perform alchemy with sizzling woks to whiz-kid chefs who are shaping the fine dining scene, the city lays claim to one...

China’s consumers spent $73.6 billion on luxury goods at home in 2021

Consumers linger outside a Haikou duty free shop at Riyue Square, Haikou City, Hainan Province, China, on September 2, 2021. Wang Jianfeng | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese consumer...

Go big, spend big on bucket list trips

‘New sense of urgency’ to hit the road There’s a “new sense of urgency” to travel, said Stephanie Papaioannou, a vice president at the luxury travel company Abercrombie &...

Asian Luxury Sales Soar As Burberry Predicts 35% Profits Rise

Asian sales have boosted the full year outlook at luxury British brand Burberry. Photographer: Jason … [+] Alden/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP U.K. luxury fashion house Burberry has reco...