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Catherine Lebrun
13 September 2024
“Fashion Tales” is a new column for Miss Tweed by Catherine Lebrun, formerly in charge of heritage at Chloé. The column analyzes news through the prism of history. Diving into the past helps to understand the present and the future: if you want to know where to go, it’s always good to remember where you came from. This is Lebrun’s inaugural column.
The British designer Sarah Burton was named creative director at Givenchy this week. Burton previously served as creative director at Alexander McQueen, where she was the designer’s right-hand.
The British designer Sarah Burton was named creative director at Givenchy this week. Burton previously served as creative director at Alexander McQueen, where she was the designer’s right-hand.
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The luxury watch industry is not out of the woods just yet, executives said at the Geneva Watch Days fair ending this week. The current downturn could last at least another year if not more, many of them predicted.
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Astrid Wendlandt
8 September 2024
Favre Leuba is one of the oldest Swiss watch brands together with Swatch Group’s Blancpain. Everyone knows Blancpain but few remember Favre Leuba which had its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s.
Liza Foreman and Astrid Wendlandt
1 September 2024
On Monday, Sept. 2, director Claude Lelouch, best known for his romantic 1966 film Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman), will receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice International Film Festival for his contribution to the film industry.
John Arlidge
4 August 2024
Savile Row, London’s temple of tailoring, has been the preserve of men for more than two centuries. Not anymore. Women are fed up with luxury brands’ poor fitting service and lack of original ideas to make their legs look longer or their breasts appear smaller — a miracle any good tailor can make happen. More and more women prefer spending their money on bespoke.
Astrid Wendlandt
28 July 2024
The luxury sector is going to be profoundly transformed by the adoption of ultra-powerful computer systems that use artificial intelligence (AI) for every step of the value chain. From the intial creative process to producing and managing stock, AI will be everywhere.
Astrid Wendlandt
21 July 2024
John Galliano does not plan to renew his five-year contract with Maison Margiela when it ends in October and could be heading back to his former employer LVMH, and more specifically Dior, several sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Astrid Wendlandt
14 July 2024
Now that a triumvirate is in place at Richemont with a powerful CEO and a new boss at Cartier and at Van Cleef & Arpels (VCA), the group’s two biggest brands, the most pressing governance question investors would like an answer to is who will be chairman once Johann Rupert is no longer there.
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