<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737</id><updated>2024-11-01T11:36:54.012+01:00</updated><category term="Luxury Brands"/><category term="Strategie"/><category term="Artistic Directors and Designers"/><category term="Fashion shows"/><category term="video"/><category term="Stores"/><category term="Products"/><category term="luxury travel"/><category term="Exhibitions"/><category term="High Tech"/><category term="Nominations"/><category term="Gastronomie"/><category term="e-Business"/><category term="Auctions"/><category term="Design"/><category term="NEWS"/><category term="jewellery"/><category term="Horlogerie"/><category term="Luxury Cars"/><category term="People"/><category term="Tradefairs"/><category term="Co-branding"/><category term="Financials"/><category term="Preface"/><category term="chat"/><category term="craftsmenship"/><title type='text'>DAILY LUXURY</title><subtitle type='html'>NEWS AND STUFF FROM THE LUXURY INDUSTRY</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>103</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-1408578009075867928</id><published>2008-06-02T22:17:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-02T23:53:11.676+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Au Revoir Maître Saint Laurent</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtbBFCXxzjVSxEE9SHa-aSYHSWmrn5ieelCxtrmthr3FjrGf2ngkXyV4Sm5OqUurzKsXnIt494grz01jBRc3tdvhHYwb07UPiwnpyNk4whyphenhypheno27LWWlRw0gbxcq99hFriwGBM-Q/s1600-h/ysl+warhol.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207391016339622978&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtbBFCXxzjVSxEE9SHa-aSYHSWmrn5ieelCxtrmthr3FjrGf2ngkXyV4Sm5OqUurzKsXnIt494grz01jBRc3tdvhHYwb07UPiwnpyNk4whyphenhypheno27LWWlRw0gbxcq99hFriwGBM-Q/s400/ysl+warhol.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The first time I was aware that some things are finer in life, was with Mum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I must have been about 5 years old and fell IN LOVE with a purple georgette drapé evening gown.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&quot;Yves Saint Laurent. He is a fashion designer. His designs are the absolute &lt;em&gt;chic&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Mum aproved of my taste - a rightly rare moment in my child/teen-hood.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- the bees knees, I thought. A man worshiped for drawing and making beautiful dresses. I realised this may be a career move.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;13 years and a round trip Sydney/Paris later, after having dealt with the fact that I had absolutely NO talent in fashion design, I stood in front of the exact same store window.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The elegant black lacquered mannequins, the same breathtakingly simple style, the purple/green palette.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I remembered Mum&#39;s words.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;And I was awed. With the stroke of a pen, one man could connect a starry eyed girl and her much more blasé mother. A feat that none had managed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;For that, and so so much more, thank you Maître Saint Laurent.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/1408578009075867928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/1408578009075867928?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/1408578009075867928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/1408578009075867928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/06/au-revoir-matre-saint-laurent.html' title='Au Revoir Maître Saint Laurent'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtbBFCXxzjVSxEE9SHa-aSYHSWmrn5ieelCxtrmthr3FjrGf2ngkXyV4Sm5OqUurzKsXnIt494grz01jBRc3tdvhHYwb07UPiwnpyNk4whyphenhypheno27LWWlRw0gbxcq99hFriwGBM-Q/s72-c/ysl+warhol.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-52918843301393865</id><published>2008-04-10T12:42:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-14T17:07:58.972+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Financials"/><title type='text'>Wealth Management Quiz and other related Trivia</title><content type='html'>A personal post for some of my financial friends&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.northstar.com/survey/index.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NorthStar Wealth Management Quiz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to AEFeldman.com :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: italic;font-size:85%;&quot; &gt;Exceptionally rich families around the world are creating increased demand for wealth management services, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cdad472e-dc31-11dc-bc82-0000779fd2ac.html&quot;&gt;FT&lt;/a&gt;. Although investors remain cautious in their outlook on the U.S. economy, a recent survey of ultra-wealthy investors conducted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&amp;amp;STORY=/www/story/12-13-2007/0004722112&amp;amp;EDATE=THU+Dec+13+2007,+06:00+AM&quot;&gt;PNC Wealth Management&lt;/a&gt; finds that respondents express increasing optimism about their investment portfolios in 2008. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aefeldman.com/&quot;&gt;Executive search firm&lt;/a&gt;, A.E. Feldman, reports that the trend is creating opportunities for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aefeldman.com/areas/financial/&quot;&gt;financial advisors&lt;/a&gt;. Firms are staffing up as they expand &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aefeldman.com/areas/financial/&quot;&gt;retail banking&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aefeldman.com/areas/financial/&quot;&gt;wealth management&lt;/a&gt; operations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: italic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;The ultra-wealthy are likely to think longer term about their investment, according to a recent survey conducted by PNC Wealth Management. Thomas Melcher, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Hawthorn, the division of PNC Wealth Management that serves clients with $20 million or more in investable assets, says, “With a greater capital base, the ultra-wealthy are often in a better position to withstand market volatility. Markets rise and fall over time. But the act of investing is long-term by definition and we advise people to diversify in order to smooth out the bumps.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: italic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;Meanwhile, banks are working to provide more sophisticated wealth management services, according to the FT. The report states that UBS Wealth Management pegs this to the increase in wealthy families with complex arrangements. Demand is also increasing for consolidated reporting of international assets and investments. Lastly, the FT reports that philanthropy is another area where wealthy families are taking more advice. The FT quotes Darren Allaway, Managing Director of its UK family office group, as saying, “The two trends we’re seeing are volume - there are many more families of substantial wealth - and sophistication.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;social&quot; style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: italic&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;   addthis_url    = &#39;http%3A%2F%2Fblog.aefeldman.com%2F2008%2F03%2F11%2Ffinancial-advisors-in-demand-as-need-for-wealth-management-soars%2F&#39;;   addthis_title  = &#39;Financial+Advisors+in+Demand+as+Need+for+Wealth+Management+Soars&#39;;   addthis_pub    = &#39;&#39;; &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;EUROMONEY states:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: italic;font-size:85%;&quot; &gt;Private banking assets under management are up 128% to 7.6 TrillionUSD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: italic;font-size:85%;&quot; &gt;= the combined GDP of Germany, France and UK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: italic;font-size:85%;&quot; &gt;= 200 million &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.turbo.fr/automobile/actualites/essais-auto/ferrari/599-gtb/article.jsp?id=p2_262283&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ferrari 599&lt;/a&gt;s&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: italic;font-size:85%;&quot; &gt;= 441,000 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sunseekerfrancegroup.com/english/index_flash.asp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sunseeker 37 tri-deck&lt;/a&gt; yachts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: italic;font-size:85%;&quot; &gt;= one and a half times the market capitalisation of all companies listed on the London Stock Exchange&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Net income growth for the private banking industry is averaging 44% year-on-year globally with the fastest growth coming from China.&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/52918843301393865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/52918843301393865?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/52918843301393865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/52918843301393865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/04/wealth-management-quiz.html' title='Wealth Management Quiz and other related Trivia'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-3796467484939496147</id><published>2008-04-06T23:52:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-07T00:10:02.863+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jewellery"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tradefairs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="video"/><title type='text'>Baselworld 2008</title><content type='html'>Here are a few images from the highly exclusive watch and jewllery trade fair (4th to 10th of April 2008)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.letemps.ch/template/galerie.asp?NLArtID=12617&amp;imageindex=1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;LeTemps.ch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;355&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/k9X54LlIQpE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/k9X54LlIQpE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot; height=&quot;355&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/3796467484939496147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/3796467484939496147?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/3796467484939496147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/3796467484939496147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/04/baselworld-2008.html' title='Baselworld 2008'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-2995073304828843093</id><published>2008-03-29T17:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-31T15:27:35.437+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jewellery"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Luxury Brands"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>Fabergé</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuMnYBsY_1bFbHxBOOnlTOkNLeu-mf5r-Xj2JPSOnecvgG1fN1zh-vIS8W6dHEhvj5i2K1u2UA9uApuAsJ6cAxUbJDVj-M0SakA603Q8txDWVFH0V-x1ffUNqoVECGeUM3RUv/s1600-h/faberg%C3%A9.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156500804416944642&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuMnYBsY_1bFbHxBOOnlTOkNLeu-mf5r-Xj2JPSOnecvgG1fN1zh-vIS8W6dHEhvj5i2K1u2UA9uApuAsJ6cAxUbJDVj-M0SakA603Q8txDWVFH0V-x1ffUNqoVECGeUM3RUv/s200/faberg%C3%A9.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Pallinghurst Ressources restructures and clarifies coloured stones business.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By buying the prestigiuous &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faberge.com/&quot;&gt;Fabergé&lt;/a&gt; name from Unilever, Fabergé will once again be synonymous with exceptional quality ( - and not awful aftershave).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In its quest to create a new industry business model and restructuring the coloured stone distribution channels, Pallinghurst has constituated a rather large gemstone mines portfolio and has proposed a reverse takeover bid in Gemfields (miner listed on AIM).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fabergé Limited has agreed to grant Gemfields an option to acquire a worldwide and exclusive 15 year license to use the Fabergé brand name in respect of gemstones (excluding diamonds) mimicking De Beer&#39;s mine-to-market business approach and creating further value under the Fabergé name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using the De Beer&#39;s (again) led Kimberly Program as a model and in a bid to increase the stones&#39; value, their origin will be disclosed and the mines will be subject to monitoring to ensure that the gems are produced &quot;ethically&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&quot;We will guarantee the provenance,&quot; CEO Pallinghurst Gilbertson said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fabergé Ltd has appointed Tatiana and Sarah Fabergé to its supervisory council. The two are great-great-granddaughters of the founder of House of Fabergé, Gustav Fabergé, and will oversee product development for the business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The House of Fabergé, jewellry, tableware and iconic egg maker from Russia was nationalized by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Sam Rubin, an American unrelated to the family, founded Fabergé Inc. after World War II, sold it in 1964, and the company was eventually bought by Unilever, which only sold it to Pallinghurst in January of this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A &quot;well done&quot; must be uttered for the very simple and effective Fabergé web page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faberge.com/static/20071010_PR.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fabergé Ltd Press Release&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/2995073304828843093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/2995073304828843093?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/2995073304828843093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/2995073304828843093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/01/faberg.html' title='Fabergé'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuMnYBsY_1bFbHxBOOnlTOkNLeu-mf5r-Xj2JPSOnecvgG1fN1zh-vIS8W6dHEhvj5i2K1u2UA9uApuAsJ6cAxUbJDVj-M0SakA603Q8txDWVFH0V-x1ffUNqoVECGeUM3RUv/s72-c/faberg%C3%A9.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-5291104490421643854</id><published>2008-02-14T18:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T14:28:24.668+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Luxury Brands"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>Rachat Lalique - Fin</title><content type='html'>Lalique sera &quot;Art et Frangrance&quot; et non &quot;Emerisque&quot;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;PARIS (AFP) - La société suisse Art et Fragrance a annoncé jeudi le rachat de la cristallerie de luxe Lalique au groupe Pochet pour 44 millions d&#39;euros, avec pour objectif un retour rapide aux bénéfices grâce à des investissements, sans suppressions d&#39;emplois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Le rachat de Lalique S.A. par Art et Fragrance S.A a été réalisé aujourd&#39;hui (jeudi, ndlr) par la signature d&#39;un contrat définitif&quot;, a annoncé dans un communiqué le groupe de luxe suisse, spécialisé dans les parfums et les cosmétiques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La cristallerie vosgienne créée en 1921 est restée &quot;légèrement déficitaire&quot; en 2007. Mais Art et Fragrance veut mettre en place un &quot;plan de croissance&quot; de &quot;trois à cinq ans&quot; pour lui permettre de revenir aux bénéfices dès 2009, a-t-elle expliqué.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A la clé: 12 millions d&#39;euros d&#39;investissements d&#39;ici à 2012, et des mesures de &quot;renforcement de la marque, d&#39;augmentation des capacités de production et d&#39;amélioration de l&#39;efficacité de la distribution&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le tout sans licencier un seul des 600 salariés employés dans le monde, a assuré à l&#39;AFP Silvio Denz, le président d&#39;Art et Fragrance, également nouveau PDG de Lalique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Nous n&#39;avons pas l&#39;intention de réduire les effectifs&quot;, a déclaré cet homme d&#39;affaires qui se présente lui-même comme un collectionneur des oeuvres du fondateur de Lalique, le verrier René Lalique, depuis 20 ans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Nous avons besoin de produire pour avoir une croissance future, donc nous avons besoin des ouvriers&quot;, a-t-il ajouté, n&#39;excluant pas, à terme, d&#39;embaucher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les syndicats ont accueilli l&#39;annonce du rachat par le suisse avec &quot;soulagement&quot;, alors qu&#39;un homme d&#39;affaires indien, Ajay Khaitan, représentant le fonds d&#39;investissement britannique Emerisque, a mené selon eux des &quot;négociations exclusives&quot; avec Pochet jusqu&#39;au 31 janvier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entre les plans suisse et anglo-indien, &quot;c&#39;était le jour et la nuit&quot;, a estimé Pascal Grussi, secrétaire du comité central d&#39;entreprise (CCE) et délégué syndical FO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Avec Emerisque, on allait tout droit vers la délocalisation&quot;, a-t-il ajouté, soulignant que les expertises commanditées dans le cadre du CCE avaient montré que le fonds n&#39;entendait faire &quot;aucun investissement en France&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sur l&#39;unique site de production de Lalique, à Wingen-sur-Moder (Bas-Rhin), qui emploie 260 salariés sur les 425 présents en France, Silvio Denz veut investir dans les &quot;18 à 24 mois&quot; dans un nouveau &quot;four à bassin&quot; qui permettra de faire croître la production globale de &quot;20 à 30% supplémentaires par an&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En 2007, elle a progressé de 5%, dont +10% pour le seul cristal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le site de Wingen assure chaque année deux nouvelles collections, soit une production qui oscille entre 420.000 et 500.000 pièces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Autre priorité: mener de front le développement des trois spécialités de Lalique (le cristal, les parfums et les bijoux) et le renforcement de sa présence sur les marchés clés de l&#39;Asie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le rachat de Lalique intervient alors que la cristallerie française, et plus généralement la verrerie, traverse depuis le milieu des années 2000 une période de turbulences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Déficitaire, le fleuron Baccarat, créé en 1720, est tombé dans l&#39;escarcelle de Starwood Capital en 2005. Le fonds d&#39;investissement américain a lancé en 2007 un ambitieux plan de relance prévoyant 25 millions d&#39;euros d&#39;investissements par an, sans suppressions de postes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A l&#39;inverse, Arc International a prévu de supprimer d&#39;ici à fin 2010 la moitié des 12.000 postes qu&#39;il comptait encore au début des années 2000. Le leader mondial des arts de la table a encore annoncé mercredi la suppression de 560 postes et l&#39;arrêt de la production de son célèbre cristal d&#39;Arques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour Art et Fragrance, basé près de Zürich, le rachat de Lalique est aussi &quot;une étape de croissance décisive&quot;, qui va lui permettre d&#39;élargir ses activités et multiplier par quatre ses ventes annuelles, à 140 millions de francs suisses (87 millions d&#39;euros).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/5291104490421643854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/5291104490421643854?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/5291104490421643854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/5291104490421643854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/02/rachat-lalique-fin.html' title='Rachat Lalique - Fin'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-6330505695378903115</id><published>2008-01-18T15:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-18T15:29:32.717+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Artistic Directors and Designers"/><title type='text'>Peter Dundas at Reveillon?</title><content type='html'>according to WWD:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;Sources in Paris said the furrier was considering the former Emanuel Ungaro designer to energize its collections. A spokesman for Revillon said the company was contemplating several names and that a decision had yet to be made. Designer Rick Owens left Revillon after Yves Salomon acquired it just over a year ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/6330505695378903115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/6330505695378903115?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/6330505695378903115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/6330505695378903115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/01/peter-dundas-at-reveillon.html' title='Peter Dundas at Reveillon?'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-867879503913216115</id><published>2008-01-17T19:36:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-31T19:02:25.783+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fashion shows"/><title type='text'>Oh Man!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0edAoDgkTP_9oTC7uqeGtIoOiKkSnYULJiciGTnMi5usXyAtYHQ2-KUU6BJvmXIiG6HJJpWbdPbMbyYjrgMA6g_1UeiEYz09cDuCnbChAihy0sOSiobrplUTC0JJGrdlSKY8/s1600-h/ysl.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156520148949645842&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0edAoDgkTP_9oTC7uqeGtIoOiKkSnYULJiciGTnMi5usXyAtYHQ2-KUU6BJvmXIiG6HJJpWbdPbMbyYjrgMA6g_1UeiEYz09cDuCnbChAihy0sOSiobrplUTC0JJGrdlSKY8/s400/ysl.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Yves Saint Laurent Homme Video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s all go for another round of men&#39;s fashion shows (a little earlier than usual). 42 designers will be marching their styles down the parisian catwalks - and one is sitting out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yves Saint Laurent Homme will be seen in the form of a video installation, imagined by Stefano Pilati and in collaboration with Sarah Chatfield and Chris Sweeney of the london production house « &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.colonelblimp.com/biography/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Colonel Blimp &lt;/a&gt;». UK actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=164432&amp;amp;nopub=1.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Simon Woods &lt;/a&gt;will camp the role of the protagonist and model.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE:&lt;br /&gt;here is the video (thx to YOUTUBE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/paMEKhq_qRk&amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/paMEKhq_qRk&amp;hl=en&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/867879503913216115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/867879503913216115?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/867879503913216115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/867879503913216115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/01/oh-man.html' title='Oh Man!'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0edAoDgkTP_9oTC7uqeGtIoOiKkSnYULJiciGTnMi5usXyAtYHQ2-KUU6BJvmXIiG6HJJpWbdPbMbyYjrgMA6g_1UeiEYz09cDuCnbChAihy0sOSiobrplUTC0JJGrdlSKY8/s72-c/ysl.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-5640013183193818450</id><published>2008-01-17T17:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T19:21:21.746+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>IPO Prada</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;MILAN (Reuters) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;La maison de couture Prada fait savoir qu&#39;elle a enclenché la procédure de son introduction en Bourse et a choisi Banca IMI, UBM et Goldman Sachs comme chefs de file et teneurs de livres.&lt;br /&gt;Prada, qui a reporté son projet d&#39;IPO jusque là en raison de conditions de marché défavorables, a ajouté que l&#39;introduction en Bourse devrait se faire en 2008 toujours &quot;selon les conditions du marché&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;Une source financière a dit à Reuters que Mediobanca serait conseiller financière de l&#39;opération.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Prada avait déja ouvert son capital à la hauteur de 5% à Intesa Sanpaolo pour 100M€ sur un total de 2milliard€. En 2006, le CA a augmenter de 7.1% 1.43 milliard€ par rapport à 1.33 milliard€ en 2005. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/5640013183193818450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/5640013183193818450?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/5640013183193818450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/5640013183193818450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/01/ipo-prada.html' title='IPO Prada'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-7951215551169701508</id><published>2008-01-16T17:15:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T12:33:01.092+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Nominations"/><title type='text'>Chaises musicales 2007/08</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwI3B5vFV-nPd6FcUEvpX70AqD3VykmPUp8lPMo1OvtE6Hl-2JysyFLvPyXXOI94ydkQsN6SxVHsAYuoOFjLlB4ZgPcKLHleJcTiqX0eZzKBxiG81A43swFnfFtYN1aJ50uYl/s1600-h/chaises.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156423181473004018&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwI3B5vFV-nPd6FcUEvpX70AqD3VykmPUp8lPMo1OvtE6Hl-2JysyFLvPyXXOI94ydkQsN6SxVHsAYuoOFjLlB4ZgPcKLHleJcTiqX0eZzKBxiG81A43swFnfFtYN1aJ50uYl/s320/chaises.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Beaucoup de nouveautés cette année révolue chez les stylistes et dirigeants- petit résumé histoire de se remettre à niveau.&lt;br /&gt;A vous de suivre:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chanel.com/&quot;&gt;Chanel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Un déménagement aux states et un remaniement totale management du au renouveau des générations.&lt;br /&gt;Maureen Chiquet - Présidente du conseil de surveillance de Chanel SAS, en charge de la coordination des 5 grandes régions mondiales et des 3 pôles de dévéloppement international.&lt;br /&gt;Bruno Pavlovsky - Président du pôle mode&lt;br /&gt;Philippe Mougenot - Président du pôle horlogerie-joaillerie&lt;br /&gt;Andréa d&#39;Avack - Préseident du pôle parfums-cosmétiques&lt;br /&gt;Peter Philips - Directeur international de la création maquillage en remplacement de Dominique Moncourtois (partie à la retraite)&lt;br /&gt;Valérie Duport - Directrice des relations extérieures en remplacement de Marie-Louise de Clermont Tonnerre.&lt;br /&gt;A venir : les nominations d&#39;un directeur administratif, la nomination du président de l&#39;europe et la nommination du directeur artistique ( suite au décès regretté de Jacques Helleu)&lt;br /&gt;CHANEL est détenu par la famille Wertheimer depuis 1954.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dior.com/pcd/International/JSP/Home/prehomeFlash.jsp&quot;&gt;Dior &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deuxième défilé en janvier 2008 de &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.krisvanassche.com/&quot;&gt;Kris van Assche &lt;/a&gt;pour &lt;a class=&quot;tag&quot; href=&quot;http://www.fashionmag.fr/news/search.php?id_word=209&quot;&gt;Dior&lt;/a&gt;. Sa première collection, en juin, avait marqué un retour à une élégance plus classique, après les silhouettes rock de son prédécesseur &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hedislimane.com/&quot;&gt;Hedi Slimane&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.valentino.com/&quot;&gt;Valentino&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Après le départ du maestro Garavani en septembre dernier Alessandra Facchinetti est nominée à la direction artistique des collections féminines avec Maria Grazia Chiuri et Pier Paolo Piccioli DAs accessoires.&lt;br /&gt;Ferruccio Pozzoni est nominé à la création masculine. Le designer succède ainsi au fondateur de la marque. A 47 ans, il a signé les collections homme chez Prada entre 1998 et 2004, participé au développement de la ligne petite sœur Miu Miu, avant d&#39;être nommé directeur de la création chez Brioni.&lt;br /&gt;Valentino Fashion Group appartient depuis juin 2007 à Permira Private Equity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moncler.fr/&quot;&gt;Moncler Ligne Rouge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En s&#39;envolant chez Valentino, Alessandra Facchetti à laissée sa place à &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.giambattistavalli.com/&quot;&gt;Giambattista Valli&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Moncler est une filliale du groupe Procter&amp;amp;Gamble&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gianfrancoferre.com/&quot;&gt;Gianfranco Ferré&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après le dèces du monstre sacré, le Suédois Lars Nilsson vient de signer sa première collection homme pour les défilés milanais le 13 janvier. Il avait quitté la maison Nina Ricci en Aout 2006 cèdant sa place à Oliver Theyskens.&lt;br /&gt;Rachetée à 90% en 2000 dans le groupe Tonino Perna, la maison Gianfranco Ferré Spa est rentrée en 2002 au sein du It Holding&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;tag&quot; href=&quot;http://www.fashionmag.fr/news/search.php?id_word=897&quot;&gt;Ferragamo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.graemeblack.com/&quot;&gt;Graeme Black &lt;/a&gt;a laissé en août sa place à Cristina Ortiz après seulement quatre ans, afin de pouvoir se concentrer sur sa propre ligne.&lt;br /&gt;Cristina Ortitz (ex Lanvin) etait au paravant chez Brioni.&lt;br /&gt;Ferragamo est gérée par la veuve et les descendants du fondateur décédé en 1960. La société a prevue une introduction en bourse cette année.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brioni.it/&quot;&gt;Brioni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc deux en moins chez eux! Redoutant l&#39;effet &quot;Tom Ford&quot; la maison a souhaitée miser sur des stylistes plus discrets.&lt;br /&gt;Jason Basmajian reprendra la direction du style homme à partir de l&#39;été 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/vionnet.com&quot;&gt;Vionnet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marc Audibert, successeur de &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sophiakokosalaki.com/&quot;&gt;Sophia Kokosalaki &lt;/a&gt;à la relance de cette marque mythique, exaspéré par l&#39;esprit système &quot;D&quot; de la maison Vionnet a claqué la porte après moins d&#39;un an. Dommage, cette belle maison se trouve maintenant orphelin.&lt;br /&gt;La maison Vionnet est détenu par la famille de Lummen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cacharel.fr/&quot;&gt;Cacharel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Direction Artistique de sa ligne femme est confiée au tandem créatif &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eleykishimoto.com/&quot;&gt;Eley Kishimoto&lt;/a&gt;. La première collection signée par le couple sera celle de l’hiver 2008/2009.&lt;br /&gt;Le duo remplace Estrella Archs qui a présenté sa propre collection lors des défilés de prêt-à-porter en octobre 2007 mais pas de collection pour Cacharel.&lt;br /&gt;Elle avait pris le relais des stylistes Inacio Ribeiro et Suzanne Clements qui avaient mis fin en juin 2007, après sept ans, à leur collaboration avec Cacharel pour &quot;se consacrer au redéploiement de leur marque&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;Philippe Cardon a récemment été nommé à la direction de la marque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cerruti.com/&quot;&gt;Cerruti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La maison Cerruti a annoncé fin octobre 2007 la nomination du styliste belge Jean-Paul Knott au poste de directeur artistique de ses collections de prêt-à-porter Homme et Femme. Jean-Paul Knott remplace Nicolas Andreas Taralis, directeur artistique de Cerruti depuis 2006.&lt;br /&gt;Jean-Paul Knott continuera également ses activités pour les propres marques qu&#39;il développe.&lt;br /&gt;Le fonds de capital-investissement américain MatlinPatterson a racheté le groupe de luxe Cerruti à la holding italienne Fin.part SpA en Aout 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guylaroche.com/&quot;&gt;Guy Laroche&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le styliste franco-suédois a été nommé &quot;directeur artistique consultant&quot; de Guy Laroche en novembre 2007. Le créateur de 45 ans &quot;créera non seulement la ligne de prêt-à-porter de luxe de Guy Laroche&quot; mais &quot;entouré de stylistes consultants, il supervisera par étapes toutes les créations des 80 licences de la marque&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;Depuis 2006, le prêt-à-porter féminin était dessiné par le styliste Damian Lee, qui avait succédé à Hervé L. Leroux. Ce dernier avait quitté la griffe après deux ans de collaboration.&lt;br /&gt;Plusieurs créateurs se sont succédé à la direction artistique de Guy Laroche depuis la mort de son fondateur en 1989 (Angelo Tarlazzi, Michel Klein, Alber Elbaz, Sophie Sitbon, Laetitia Hecht...).&lt;br /&gt;Le groupe BIC a cèdé Guy Laroche à Rech International en 2001 qui lui même à cédé à YGM Trading (coté en bourse à HgKg) en 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ungaro.com/&quot;&gt;Ungaro&lt;br /&gt;Esteban Cortazar &lt;/a&gt;(23 ans) est depuis fin novembre le nouveau designer des collections féminines de la maison Emanuel Ungaro.&lt;br /&gt;Le jeune designer remplace le Norvégien Peter Dundas. Trois stylistes se sont succédé à la direction artistique du prêt-à-porter féminin depuis le départ d&#39;Emanuel Ungaro en 2005.&lt;br /&gt;Franck Boclet sera nommé chez Emanuel Ungaro pour développer une ligne homme, à l&#39;issue de son dernier défilé Smalto, le 29 janvier (sous licence avec l&#39;Anglais Marchpole).&lt;br /&gt;La maison de couture, fondée en 1965, appartient au fonds d&#39;investissement américain AIMZ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.givenchy.fr/default.php&quot;&gt;Givenchy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Désormais, la collaboration d&#39;Ozwald Boateng se limite à un rôle de consultant sur le produit. Plusieurs sources affirment que l&#39;échéance de son contrat est en juillet 2007.&lt;br /&gt;À terme, l&#39;objectif est de confier la création de cette ligne masculine à un studio, sous la houlette de l&#39;Italien Riccardo Tisci, qui assure avec brio la direction artistique du pendant féminin de Givenchy depuis quatre saisons.&lt;br /&gt;Givenchy - un sattelite de LVMH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dunhill.com/home?lang=en&quot;&gt;Dunhill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giampiero Bodino, Directeur-création chez Dunhill&lt;br /&gt;Bodino (ex-Cartier), l&#39;un des importants designers du 21ème siècle, a injecté une énergie créative et une nouvelle perception du design dans la maison de luxe anglaise.&lt;br /&gt;&quot;J’ai ma conception de l’esprit britannique et elle est plus proche de celle d’Alfred Dunhill que peuvent le supposer les gens&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faberge.com/&quot;&gt;Fabergé&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A noter la collaboration du groupe de private equity Pallinghurst Ressources et de Mark Dunhill, ancien président de Alfred Dunhill, pour transformer Fabergé en une marque de produits de luxe. Le fonds d&#39;investissement a aussi l&#39;ambition d&#39;investir dans l&#39;industrie de l&#39;acier. Cette nouvelle stratégie permettra au label vieux de 165 ans de retrouver la gloire de ses origines synonymes d&#39;excellence, de créativité, de design et d&#39;artisanat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://baccarat.com/intro.htm&quot;&gt;Baccarat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recruté en septembre 2007 et nommé jeudi DG en remplacement de Marc Leclerc, Hervé Martin (ex Vuitton, Cartier, Kenzo et Ferragamo) entend bien de former un duo de choc avec le nouveau directeur artistique &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faiencededesvres.fr/chafik_design.html&quot;&gt;Chafik Gasmi &lt;/a&gt;(créateur du loft en céramique présenté à Maison et Objet par &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paysfaiencedesvres.fr/fr/economie_et_faience/pays_de_la_faience/innovation_et_design&quot;&gt;Faiences de Sevres &lt;/a&gt;en septembre 2006).&lt;br /&gt;Baccarat est americain depuis deux ans avec le rachat du groupe du Louvre (famille Taittinger) par Starwood Capital (86% du capital).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jean-louis-scherrer.com/&quot;&gt;Scherrer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;C&#39;est le regard d&#39;une jeune designer de 36 ans qui va donner son interprétation de la devise de Jean Louis Scherrer: Bouchra Jarrar.&lt;br /&gt;Sous l&#39;oeil veillante du nouveau Directeur Artistique Nicolas Ghesquière, Bouchra Jarrar sera directrice artistique pour ses collections de prêt-à-porter et d&#39;accessoires.&lt;br /&gt;La styliste française remplace Stéphane Rolland qui se consacrera désormais uniquement à la haute couture. Sa collection prét-à-porter été 2008 sera présentée en octobre 2007. La maison Jean-Louis Scherrer, fondée en 1962, appartient au groupe de luxe Alliance Designers dirigé par Alain Duménil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bonpoint.com/&quot;&gt;Bonpoint&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eric Vallat a été nommé président directeur général.&lt;br /&gt;Bonpoint a été racheté en mars par la holding EPI, contrôlée par la famille Descours, déjà propriétaire, notamment, de sociétés de chaussures de luxe (J.M. Weston, François Pinet) et de vêtements (Alain Figaret).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.montblanc.com/index.php&quot;&gt;Montblanc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;directeur général &lt;a name=&quot;50997321&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Michel Adé est nommé directeur général de Montblanc France. Il succède à Thomas Rix, promu directeur financier des filiales de production de Montblanc International au siège de Hambourg. &lt;a name=&quot;nomination&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/7951215551169701508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/7951215551169701508?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/7951215551169701508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/7951215551169701508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/01/chaises-musicales-200708.html' title='Chaises musicales 2007/08'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwI3B5vFV-nPd6FcUEvpX70AqD3VykmPUp8lPMo1OvtE6Hl-2JysyFLvPyXXOI94ydkQsN6SxVHsAYuoOFjLlB4ZgPcKLHleJcTiqX0eZzKBxiG81A43swFnfFtYN1aJ50uYl/s72-c/chaises.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-5315993788785632953</id><published>2008-01-16T01:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T01:51:19.231+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Nominations"/><title type='text'>Hédiard&#39;s Kiwi</title><content type='html'>New Zealander David Henderson-Stewart to be CEO of fine foods brand Hédiard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;La Tribune.fr -&lt;br /&gt;10/01/08&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un nouveau PDG pour Hédiard&lt;br /&gt;David Henderson-Steward a été nommé PDG de l&#39;épicerie de luxe par ses nouveaux propriétaires russes. Il remplace Dominique Richard.&lt;br /&gt;Chez Hédiard, c&#39;est un passage de témoin attendu à la suite du rachat de l&#39;épicerie de luxe par un groupe russe. David Henderson-Stewart a été nommé PDG d&#39;Hédiard. Il était auparavant président de Luxadvor, propriétaire d&#39;Hédiard depuis octobre 2007.&lt;br /&gt;David Henderson-Stewart, 35 ans, est diplômé en droit. Il a été avocat au barreau de Paris. Puis, depuis 2006, il occupe le poste de directeur général du groupe d&#39;investissement russe OPK. Ce fonds, comme Luxadvor, société d&#39;investissement spécialisée dans les services haut de gamme, sont contrôlées par le magnat russe Sergueï Pougatchev.&lt;br /&gt;David Henderson-Stewart remplace Dominique Richard, qui part après 5 ans passé à la direction d&#39;Hédiard. Fondée en 1832 par Ferdinand Hédiard, l&#39;enseigne réalise un chiffre d&#39;affaires de 30 millions d&#39;euros, dont le quart réalisé à l&#39;étranger.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LuxAdvor a company that will probably snap up other luxury brands in the near future. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3177619.ece&quot; taget=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;TIMES ONLINE&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.davidlinley.com/index_sales.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;David Linley&#39;s &lt;/a&gt;home furnishing and furniture business may be the second next purchase.&lt;br /&gt;The next investment is a 3.4MGBP of a total 4.2MGBP stake in shortly to list (21st of january -AIM market) in DesignCapital plc investment company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/11012008/0000/sch1-update-designcapital-plc-aim.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;MORE INFO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Current luxury related businesses (excluding real estate) currently held by Sergei Pougatchev include &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.luxe.tv/&quot;&gt;Luxe TV &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.poljot.com/&quot;&gt;Poljot watches&lt;/a&gt;.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/5315993788785632953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/5315993788785632953?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/5315993788785632953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/5315993788785632953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/01/hdiards-kiwi.html' title='Hédiard&#39;s Kiwi'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-705456684940551989</id><published>2008-01-09T18:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T18:58:14.176+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>Happy New Year</title><content type='html'>New year - new trends?&lt;br /&gt;Well, new for some - as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/mmframe?prid=327475&amp;amp;attachid=624708&quot;&gt;Luxury Institute&lt;/a&gt; says : service, service, service!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luxury Institute Trends - 2008 and Beyond&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) Old Guard of Luxury Passes the Baton to a New Generation. Are They Ready for a Flat World?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout Luxurydom the founders, family members and their trusted lieutenants who built the grand luxury behemoths and boutiques alike have begun to retire, to sell, and consider family legacy and philanthropy. The new generation of leaders who will inherit these brands must not seek to merely replicate old business models.&lt;br /&gt;Attend luxury conferences and you hear the same old messages, tired strategies and tactics, with lively debate on whether or not to sell to the masses, or on the Internet. Attend a Silicon Valley conference and you will understand that the luxury industry lives in another galaxy, detached from its consumers, who have already moved beyond Web 2.0 and into community. Either the new leaders are being reserved, or they do not yet fully understand how technology, globalization and commoditization are transforming their world. Either way, look for innovative luxury leaders to emerge from the chaos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;EG : Chanel&#39;s interactive web site&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Boucheron&#39;s &quot;create your own design&quot; jewellry experience&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dior&#39;s Midnight Poison ad film parallel with IPhone launch&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.) Luxury Rediscovers Great Service as a Differentiator&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As economic slowdown in the U. S impacts the luxury industry, particularly those who sell to the affluent masses, luxury firms will rediscover or perhaps discover, that mainstream millionaire consumers, not just celebrities and heirs, require great service to earn their loyalty.&lt;br /&gt;With so many &quot;luxury&quot; categories inundated with brands vying for the attention of the same consumers, luxury CEOs will begin to allocate resources to continuously train their well-intentioned, but generally unskilled, salespeople and customer representatives who must prove competence and trustworthiness to discerning customers. Luxury Institute surveys show 29 % of wealthy consumers have had a problem with a luxury firm that required resolution in the past year. Ironically, getting luxury firms to admit to problems was one of the biggest problems. Seller beware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;EG : EDC (Ecole des cadres) launching a Sup de Luxe subsiduary - Sup de Retail&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.) The Luxury Access Revolution, Phase Three&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few years ago, the Luxury Institute was the first to predict the advent of the &quot;Luxury Access Revolution,&quot; an accelerating phenomenon at every price point on the luxury-spend spectrum. Jets, yachts, vacation homes, autos, vineyards, golf clubs, even typically less pricey items such as handbags, jewelry, and watches, were embracing membership -- selling variety, convenience and utility, without the hassles of ownership.&lt;br /&gt;We also predicted that brash entrepreneurs would drive the first phase of innovation to be eventually overrun by better-capitalized luxury brands. Right on cue, in 2007, we saw many entrepreneurial providers of these membership models merge, consolidate, or disappear.&lt;br /&gt;Next, top luxury brands and original manufacturers will take over, leveraging their trusted brands, synergistic offerings, fixing flawed business models, providing direly-needed transparency, and using vast resources to legitimize these access models for the mainstream affluent and the wealthy. For all those savvy millionaires waiting on the sidelines, it may finally be time to become a member.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.) Beyond Concierge Services&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that these days everyone provides concierge services, along with their product or service. From credit card companies to private banks, concierge services are the rage. Well, expect these commoditized, low-margin services to begin to morph into high-fee, high-value consulting services, worthy of the name.&lt;br /&gt;Companies, such as Quincy Consulting Group, are reshaping the industry, applying a McKinsey-like model to serving the seamlessly personal and professional needs of the wealthy. While they will not manage your assets, they will handle many critical needs beyond the basic restaurant and theatre reservations call-center model. They will, for example, plan a wedding, charter a mega-yacht; find a trained nanny, a competent wealth manager, a trustworthy art dealer, etc. They will bring in specialists to help execute each task, and manage the project. Most importantly, they will do so in an objective, independent manner not been typical of most concierge firms, which have created conflicts of interest by steering clients to &quot;preferred&quot; suppliers. Concierge services will never be the same again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.) Philanthropy Industry Shakeout-Phase Two&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill Gates and Warren Buffet&#39;s entry into big-league philanthropy did not just create the &quot;alms race&quot; we predicted. Their participation, and the trend they started, have brought with them great media attention, and a level of accountability, that has lifted the veil to expose the incompetence and, sometimes dishonesty, that plagues a large segment of this tax-sheltered industry. What these icons of efficiency have done is to bring upon charities a level of scrutiny and transparency that will force out bad apples and eliminate conflicts of interest. New transparent models of philanthropy, often web-based, will accelerate the trend so that the neediest can benefit from this generosity. It cannot happen soon enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.) Luxury Brands Will Embrace Communities of Raving Fans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any brands have truly devoted, emotionally invested fans, it is Luxury brands. However, luxury firms, many of which are trapped in traditional media, have failed to listen to, engage, and create a community dialogue among their most ardent fans (read: customers; current and future). Could it be because when you inspire fans to have a sincere dialogue online, and make it transparent and public, you lose control?&lt;br /&gt;You have to earn the right to facilitate a community dialogue with good, old-fashioned trust. Giving up control to communicate honestly with the customer community is exactly what leading luxury brands will do. By creating a community of fans, and listening to the good, the bad, and the ugly, and then acting on it, the best luxury brands will begin to enhance the experiences of their customers in ways loyal customers want, and will begin to co-create products that their customers desire. That will be extremely hard for many luxury brands to do. Expect more than a few to wither into irrelevance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seems to me that this a very similar problemeatic as point 1.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.) Luxury Discovers Mass Scalability is Hard When You Leave Out the Customer Service Experience&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oops. Looks like all those luxury brands racing to transform themselves into affordable luxury (a contradiction in terms) by making deals with mass retailers, forgot the business model is not just about stamping out more luxury widgets. Quality production (never mind the quality of raw materials, that&#39;s a detail) may be scalable when you serve the masses, but has anyone noticed that part of the experience of luxury is great, over-the-top, personalized service?&lt;br /&gt;Just walk into any mass retailer and indulge yourself in the service levels they provide (you do get what you pay for, though). That may not be the service level you want your luxury brand name to be associated with because in a transparent world consumers will share and rate their experiences and define your brand for you. Look for some luxury brands to head back to Madison Avenue in a hurry, albeit not with reputations intact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;EG : In Paris most luxury retailers prefer to open their new stores in well known luxury areas or renovated existing flagship stores if they are well located - The days of thinking that the mountain will come Mohamet are of the past.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.) Luxury Retailers Eliminate Marginal Brands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top luxury retailers -- Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Barney&#39;s, Bergdorf&#39;s, and Saks -- have long prided themselves on being expert guides to luxury for their wealthy customers. But brands such as Vivre have created inroads by becoming curators, delivering connoisseurship, and a higher level of consistently unique and exclusive offerings. Now look for retailers to go up-market and start to eliminate marginally luxurious product lines as they embrace and experiment with unique, new designers who wish to remain bespoke. Luxury retailers will earn their curatorial stripes with their wealthy customers once again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;When times get iffy, rely on the basics - great products, fantastic service, transparent image and top location.&lt;/em&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/705456684940551989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/705456684940551989?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/705456684940551989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/705456684940551989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2008/01/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-1343864119405151824</id><published>2007-12-10T22:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-11T02:26:36.204+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craftsmenship"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fashion shows"/><title type='text'>Par affection - Les Métiers d&#39;Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://chanel.com/&quot;&gt;CHANEL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6nCBWxFAM72zEY7ECbWPreS2SHbNc2aGA4XnBQ4V6QNJOI4G1Jkh7r7vCfRpxwnViHBpy9jgzGuO8rhyuelciIPd7K8YPpQLq-dmyBcxkwq410bdROp-sDWsa7rRWc5k_T_CY/s1600-h/chanel2.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142517729775129858&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6nCBWxFAM72zEY7ECbWPreS2SHbNc2aGA4XnBQ4V6QNJOI4G1Jkh7r7vCfRpxwnViHBpy9jgzGuO8rhyuelciIPd7K8YPpQLq-dmyBcxkwq410bdROp-sDWsa7rRWc5k_T_CY/s200/chanel2.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Paris-Londres 6 december 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Repositioning the ready-to-wear collection up a level and catering to a local clientele, Chanel&#39;s Karl-of-all-media, makes his trades work for him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Style.com : As Lagerfeld explained it, &quot;There&#39;s a new clientele now, Russian, Middle Eastern, Chinese, South American, and they&#39;re young and they&#39;re all tiny—size 36, 38. They have no problem fitting into standard sizes.&quot; And many of them (thanks to Gordon Brown&#39;s favorable tax laws) happen to be discreetly domiciled in the U.K. capital, perchance on the lookout for something just a little more gorgeous to wear on London&#39;s now extremely dressed-up social circuit.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exclusivity and creativity are the essence of this PARIS-LONDRES pre-collection. Inspired by the men that marked her life (and loves) Arthur (Boy) Capel or the Duke of Westminster spiced up with a touch of blues (Amy Winehouse-esque) , a pinch grande dame glam and a great big whallop of rock, this is one of the most iconic collections to hang soon in Chanel stores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After Paris, in 2002 and 2003, Tokyo in 2004, New York in 2005 and Monte-Carlo en 2006 the London 2007 version of his &quot;métiers d&#39;art&quot; collection is a showcase for PARAFFECTION haute couture ateliers (staff of 300 and 35 M € turnover in 2006).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;PARAFFECTION (liberally translated means &quot;for the love of&quot;) is a company created in 2002 by Chanel SA to house independant &quot;satelite&quot; atéliers d&#39;art. 7 master craftsmenshops all preserved under one CC tiled roof. Long established suppliers to Chanel and many other fashion houses, who due to their hyper-niche products, and global delocalisation were doomed to hang their hat one day. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saving them only for the love of savoir-faire? These companies still bill ca. 60% of their turnover to CHANEL. Only 60%!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;All these workshops have the duty to function independantly and so, also supply the competition. They are encouraged and guided to find their own clientèle form new craftsmen, dust off the made-to-measure articles cluttering atelier shelves and start creating younger collections under their own banner (eg artistic director Eric Charles Donatien at Maison Lemarié and Goossens).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;By saving the heritage of these ateliers d&#39;art, Chanel is creating a laboratory for the future of (it&#39;s) luxury business.&lt;/p&gt;Master Artisans:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lesage-paris.com/&quot;&gt;LESAGE&lt;/a&gt; - specialist embroidery since (acquired in 2002)&lt;br /&gt;DESRUES costume jewelry and button maker (acquired in 2002)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guillet-fleurs.fr/&quot;&gt;GUILLET&lt;/a&gt; - maker of fabric flowers since 1896 (acquired in 2006)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michel-paris.com/&quot;&gt;MAISON MICHEL &lt;/a&gt;millnery since 1936 (acquired in 2002- a great website underway by supergazol and a great mini documentary &lt;a href=&quot;http://ma-tvideo.france2.fr/video/iLyROoafteLS.html&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;MAISON LEMARIE feather-maker since 1880 (acquired in 1997)&lt;br /&gt;ROBERT GOOSSENS gold- and silversmithing since 1960 (acquired in 2005)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.massaro.fr/&quot;&gt;MASSARO&lt;/a&gt; boot-making since 1947 (acquired in 2005)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people you just can&#39;t buy - Mme Pouzieux is passementière and supplies the most intricate braidings available in haute couture - her art, by french legislation, only exists as a mechanised process for home furnishings. She has never been able to declare her craft and so her official trade is breeding horses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For further reading:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.patrimoine-vivant.com/entreprises/galerie.php&quot;&gt;ENTREPRISES DU PATRIMOINE VIVANT&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/1343864119405151824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/1343864119405151824?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/1343864119405151824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/1343864119405151824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/les-mtiers-dart.html' title='Par affection - Les Métiers d&#39;Art'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6nCBWxFAM72zEY7ECbWPreS2SHbNc2aGA4XnBQ4V6QNJOI4G1Jkh7r7vCfRpxwnViHBpy9jgzGuO8rhyuelciIPd7K8YPpQLq-dmyBcxkwq410bdROp-sDWsa7rRWc5k_T_CY/s72-c/chanel2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-4599998290742130882</id><published>2007-12-10T20:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T21:04:59.738+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>Supreme Luxury 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0S2OzIpIaRxSyaCnKOoLVug30u2MpCgcmfU0125IHj3ElyFV7UJnuI28epZkHJkjXu7IabGGOmmZwAGxVDvwGaSWwF1RsTmm9zE48FoF7Jz04F84FNr4OEIO4jUSw8YhEYNr/s1600-h/suzy+menkes.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142437474016236786&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0S2OzIpIaRxSyaCnKOoLVug30u2MpCgcmfU0125IHj3ElyFV7UJnuI28epZkHJkjXu7IabGGOmmZwAGxVDvwGaSWwF1RsTmm9zE48FoF7Jz04F84FNr4OEIO4jUSw8YhEYNr/s200/suzy+menkes.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Who else but fashion high-priestess Suzy Menkes to host this event. She is absolutely hypnotizing (-ed) as interviewer of Tom Ford and C°&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid959009704?bclid=979307711&amp;amp;bctid=1328194001&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;SUPREME LUXURY 2007&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/4599998290742130882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/4599998290742130882?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/4599998290742130882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/4599998290742130882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/supreme-luxury-2007.html' title='Supreme Luxury 2007'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0S2OzIpIaRxSyaCnKOoLVug30u2MpCgcmfU0125IHj3ElyFV7UJnuI28epZkHJkjXu7IabGGOmmZwAGxVDvwGaSWwF1RsTmm9zE48FoF7Jz04F84FNr4OEIO4jUSw8YhEYNr/s72-c/suzy+menkes.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-6991997295009873882</id><published>2007-12-10T14:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T14:45:48.909+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>Barclays Wealth Insight</title><content type='html'>THE IMPORTANCE OF THE &quot;WOW&quot; FACTOR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barclays Wealth (in partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit) explores the &quot;true value of wealth and the choices wealthy individuals make in seeking to enjoy it&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A very interesting report which highlights the challenges faced by the luxury industry in redefining their products to cater more directly to demands of high net worth individuals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding consumer habits - quality and service seem to be the main issues. Exclusivity and time being the absolute of luxuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.barclayswealth.com/files/BW_Insights_Volume_4_The_True_Value_of_Wealth.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BARCLAYS WEALTH INSIGHT&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/6991997295009873882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/6991997295009873882?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/6991997295009873882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/6991997295009873882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/barclays-wealth-insight.html' title='Barclays Wealth Insight'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-4163393778512993917</id><published>2007-12-06T15:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T16:10:06.162+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Luxury Brands"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>IPO or not to IPO?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wall Street Journal : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;MILAN -- Salvatore Ferragamo SpA and Prada SpA, two of the world&#39;s biggest fashion names, are sticking to plans for stock-market listings in Milan next year despite signs the luxury-goods sector is heading for turbulent times.&lt;br /&gt;For each, the planned listing of a minority of its shares is perhaps the best shot for the family owners to raise the cash necessary to fund expansion around the world without sacrificing control. But the desire to go public against the increasingly difficult market backdrop shows how critical the need for financing has become for Europe&#39;s family-owned fashion labels.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;By Stacy Meichtry and Christina Passariello.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prada has postponed it&#39;s IPO several times (especially in september 2001), and rumours have been running wild for years. The Italian company may need the cash to expand aggressively into China, Brazil, and India, as well as to increase its presence in the United States (especially with it&#39;s brand MIU MIU) and in Japan. Based on its sale of 5% of the company to Intesa Sanpaolo last year, the company is worth at least $2.7 billion.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/4163393778512993917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/4163393778512993917?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/4163393778512993917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/4163393778512993917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/ipo-or-not-to-ipo.html' title='IPO or not to IPO?'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-6817948043104215427</id><published>2007-12-06T15:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T15:35:59.247+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="High Tech"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>Meridian vs Bang &amp; Olufsen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_5gKU4WwvjK2-k5yMJdBwuATYd3oCMBpWTBbA4v3uvBL9Gd3yNXtrsKmrG1K6PiEvhCR2n8W3rbHIgjZagVirp1lVydnWvkPJAjncDHT9dnXEgad9pyiCmT2oTjHM4_NrZkG9/s1600-h/meridian.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140867487473586482&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_5gKU4WwvjK2-k5yMJdBwuATYd3oCMBpWTBbA4v3uvBL9Gd3yNXtrsKmrG1K6PiEvhCR2n8W3rbHIgjZagVirp1lVydnWvkPJAjncDHT9dnXEgad9pyiCmT2oTjHM4_NrZkG9/s320/meridian.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Surround sound Luxury&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Investment consortium MUSE ( an investment consortium including Swiss luxury goods group Richemont&#39;s subsidiary, Columbus VC and the principals of Consolidated Media Holdings and Trian Fund Management ) to invest in High-end audio/ video home entertainment company &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meridian-audio.com/welcome.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;MERIDIAN&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The partnership creates an industry precedent in closely aligning high-end technology with luxury for the first time in the history of the premium goods industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Polishing and marketing the company&#39;s already reputed equipments, MERIDIAN will be directly in competition with the likes of Bang &amp;amp; Olufsen.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/6817948043104215427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/6817948043104215427?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/6817948043104215427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/6817948043104215427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/meridian-vs-bang-olufsen.html' title='Meridian vs Bang &amp; Olufsen'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_5gKU4WwvjK2-k5yMJdBwuATYd3oCMBpWTBbA4v3uvBL9Gd3yNXtrsKmrG1K6PiEvhCR2n8W3rbHIgjZagVirp1lVydnWvkPJAjncDHT9dnXEgad9pyiCmT2oTjHM4_NrZkG9/s72-c/meridian.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-2372754267571104611</id><published>2007-12-06T01:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T02:03:07.189+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>Deeper Luxury by WWF</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpPpD1E-Y_MSD-k8_Xbab6SuW8zWrwoPbH5Pp2lJWCIy77lF5xY2Qt_Z5y536lH0Ch4jZk8FHARqy6dLXZKAutXGu9_2H0oooRJgfQX-LSIKyFWf1BFK8ZZUj6HHBd2JtB9MWl/s1600-h/deeperluxury.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140658099227971874&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpPpD1E-Y_MSD-k8_Xbab6SuW8zWrwoPbH5Pp2lJWCIy77lF5xY2Qt_Z5y536lH0Ch4jZk8FHARqy6dLXZKAutXGu9_2H0oooRJgfQX-LSIKyFWf1BFK8ZZUj6HHBd2JtB9MWl/s200/deeperluxury.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wwf.org.uk/deeperluxury/_downloads/DeeperluxuryAccess.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Deeper Luxury Report&lt;/a&gt; (full report available for free download) &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;68 pages explaining why and how the luxury industry should care.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Excellent suggestions that (I hope) will have to be implemented. Feasable propositions on how luxury should excel in all things.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Finally, isn&#39;t that what the luxury industry should convey - timeless beauty. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/2372754267571104611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/2372754267571104611?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/2372754267571104611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/2372754267571104611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/deeper-luxury-by-wwf.html' title='Deeper Luxury by WWF'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpPpD1E-Y_MSD-k8_Xbab6SuW8zWrwoPbH5Pp2lJWCIy77lF5xY2Qt_Z5y536lH0Ch4jZk8FHARqy6dLXZKAutXGu9_2H0oooRJgfQX-LSIKyFWf1BFK8ZZUj6HHBd2JtB9MWl/s72-c/deeperluxury.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-7109136612135844028</id><published>2007-12-06T01:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T01:30:32.276+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="People"/><title type='text'>Luxe - by the book</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPz49j0MnV5MQlbpdBS8EBqXg38QBZbPCUShiMJpQE6gf-pld6_49bspcdDebPhmQvq81n608akAlSyWTiWWcOi_cYvRUDAdQB_mBbodUY5cy_gA9qM4HTlatRDD_NjPcL1zum/s1600-h/luxebook.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140647623802736898&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPz49j0MnV5MQlbpdBS8EBqXg38QBZbPCUShiMJpQE6gf-pld6_49bspcdDebPhmQvq81n608akAlSyWTiWWcOi_cYvRUDAdQB_mBbodUY5cy_gA9qM4HTlatRDD_NjPcL1zum/s200/luxebook.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Well, I guess I&#39;ll have to read this one - &quot;Luxe&quot; by Christian Blanckaert - big boss of Hermès.&lt;br /&gt;Tales of all those people in the luxury industry, that capture our hearts and our imagination&lt;br /&gt;Here an interview on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firstluxe.com/redaction/interview-de-christian-blanckaert-directeur-general-d2019hermes-international/from++search&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;FirstLuxe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a little reminder of just how well they are doing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latribune.fr/Home.nsf/(DSMLookupFrameset)/Redirect?OpenDocument&amp;amp;style=1&amp;amp;url=http%3A//www.hermes-international.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Hermès&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/7109136612135844028/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/7109136612135844028?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/7109136612135844028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/7109136612135844028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/luxe-by-book.html' title='Luxe - by the book'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPz49j0MnV5MQlbpdBS8EBqXg38QBZbPCUShiMJpQE6gf-pld6_49bspcdDebPhmQvq81n608akAlSyWTiWWcOi_cYvRUDAdQB_mBbodUY5cy_gA9qM4HTlatRDD_NjPcL1zum/s72-c/luxebook.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-491694012127555255</id><published>2007-12-05T18:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T00:52:01.117+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Luxury Brands"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>Rachat Lalique</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Et de deux....Après Baccarat c&#39;est au tour de Lalique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;(AFP) - Au printemps dernier, après plusieurs mois de bataille acharnée, le fonds Starwood a en effet remporté la partie qui l&#39;opposait aux actionnaires minoritaires historiques de Baccarat. Les Fondations de Chambrun et Cognacq-Jay, toutes deux présidées par l&#39;homme d&#39;affaires Georges Renand, ont accepté de vendre à l&#39;investisseur américain la minorité de blocage _ 34 % _ qu&#39;elles détenaient ensemble. Starwood détenait déjà 52 % du capital depuis la reprise à la mi-2005 de la totalité de l&#39;empire Taittinger, pour 2,6 milliards d&#39;euros.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aujourd&#39;hui l&#39;illustre maison &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cristallalique.fr/v2/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;LALIQUE&lt;/a&gt; risque de tomber dans les maison d&#39;un autre fond d&#39;investissement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixu_i7UlXGlifhsv7WI3DTmz-aVk8jCubo7mqaFLoJ9StHTKfNCMfC-pnLPSEnfSS_ksc69DuzAAW9u4mH-KwwDeytTE6bWJieNjaEaB1CWtLcfQph01RzC3FmJRhhwSCjoVLC/s1600-h/lalique.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140560242693099762&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixu_i7UlXGlifhsv7WI3DTmz-aVk8jCubo7mqaFLoJ9StHTKfNCMfC-pnLPSEnfSS_ksc69DuzAAW9u4mH-KwwDeytTE6bWJieNjaEaB1CWtLcfQph01RzC3FmJRhhwSCjoVLC/s320/lalique.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Le &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.verreries-pochet.fr/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Groupe Pochet&lt;/a&gt; actionnaire depuis 30 ans (majoritaire depuis 1994) avec la famille du fondateur Réné Lalique va céder cette marque icône de la cristallerie française de luxe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;STRASBOURG (AFP) - L&#39;homme d&#39;affaires indien Ajay Khaitan, du fonds d&#39;investissement britannique &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emerisque.com/index-fr.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Emerisque&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;, a annoncé mercredi qu&#39;il était en &quot;négociations exclusives&quot; pour racheter la cristallerie de luxe Lalique au groupe Pochet, se voulant rassurant sur sa volonté de développer la société.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Lalique est une marque française de luxe fabriquée en France&quot;, a-t-il assuré lors d&#39;un point-presse à Strasbourg, affirmant qu&#39;il investirait 15 millions d&#39;euros dans son développement et qu&#39;il n&#39;y aurait pas de délocalisation de la cristallerie de Wingen-sur-Moder (Bas-Rhin), unique site de production Lalique dans le monde qui emploie 260 personnes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;De même, &quot;l&#39;équipe existante restera en place&quot;, même si le management de l&#39;entreprise aura besoin de &quot;ressources supplémentaires&quot; pour faire face au défi qu&#39;Ajay Khaitan entend relever : doubler d&#39;ici cinq ans les ventes en rajeunissant la marque, développer de nouveaux produits (bijoux, accessoires de mode) et miser sur les marchés émergents que sont l&#39;Inde, la Chine, la Russie et le Moyen-Orient.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Devrait on s&#39;attendre à l&#39;annonce d&#39;un nouveau directeur artistique comme chez &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fashionjob.be/news/news.php?id=23705&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Baccarat&lt;/a&gt;?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;La vente n&#39;est pas encore actée, le comité central d&#39;entreprise (CCE) de Lalique n&#39;ayant toujours pas rendu son avis consultatif après avoir mandaté début novembre un expert pour une analyse des données économiques financières et sociales de l&#39;entreprise.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Si la vente aboutit, Emerisque deviendra l&#39;investisseur &quot;opérationnel&quot; minoritaire (chargé de définir la stratégie de l&#39;entreprise), au côté d&#39;un fonds d&#39;investissement majoritaire, Fleming Ventures. Détenu par la famille Fabiani, une famille d&#39;origine indienne basée en Espagne Fleming est spécialisé dans les investissements financiers, technologiques et immobiliers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ajay Khaitan reste flou tant sur le montant de la transaction que sur le pourcentage exact de la part minoritaire qu&#39;il entend prendre dans le capital de Lalique.&lt;br /&gt;Son fonds Emerisque, fondé en 2003, s&#39;est spécialisé dans le rachat de marques en difficulté, comme le fabricant de jeans Lee Cooper&lt;/em&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;(Dont il a délocalisé la majeur parti de la production en Chine),&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;Puma ou Ben Sherman.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans ces précédant rachats, Ajay Khaitan et ses équipes (fidèles) ont réussis à harmoniser le positionnement des marques sur tous les marchés en consolidant les différents channels de distribution, en renforçant l&#39;image (&quot;up-branding practises&quot;) et en réorganisant les sites de production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imagesfashion.com/back/brandtalk/lee_dec05.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lee Cooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A noter que Ajay Khaitan est aussi à la tête de &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avatar.gb.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;AVATAR CAPITAL Ltd&lt;/a&gt;, société décrite par lui même comme :&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&quot;Avatar Capital - business turnaround and non-core company recovery specialists - the only Value Reincarnation company in the UK &quot; - Une société qui souhaite inverser la tendance des flux de capitaux &quot;ouest-est&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/491694012127555255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/491694012127555255?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/491694012127555255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/491694012127555255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/lalique.html' title='Rachat Lalique'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixu_i7UlXGlifhsv7WI3DTmz-aVk8jCubo7mqaFLoJ9StHTKfNCMfC-pnLPSEnfSS_ksc69DuzAAW9u4mH-KwwDeytTE6bWJieNjaEaB1CWtLcfQph01RzC3FmJRhhwSCjoVLC/s72-c/lalique.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-3071120267623122659</id><published>2007-12-04T17:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T17:34:35.475+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="e-Business"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Luxury Brands"/><title type='text'>Prada On the Net</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfm_ypxGGPdm8s9wxWLRLCnNpVASoW_MEAW97qwoeZeg7G7ADxiZwnUqWYw3LdvRaP7vQUbNbHQgYR8HdFe-NiTA0s-UnQAH7vFiJDbuY-itGuaey3kyn4c6zjtFN-ePFwr5L/s1600-h/prada+gifts.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140155935946690754&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfm_ypxGGPdm8s9wxWLRLCnNpVASoW_MEAW97qwoeZeg7G7ADxiZwnUqWYw3LdvRaP7vQUbNbHQgYR8HdFe-NiTA0s-UnQAH7vFiJDbuY-itGuaey3kyn4c6zjtFN-ePFwr5L/s400/prada+gifts.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraJTEPzvROuh_YlhZMB1-k_ihyphenhyphenM0mmtnwam0xwjskM71B-76hh5upSI_PyEqQiNG-NjS4LVPuPkSVXuXk-dWihtb3_749i0XwbxIgJ4KbLvGJq49Hi1sPzW7BAYR0vHj88X78/s1600-h/prada+gifts.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;First steps to conquering the web? I was surprised to see Prada advertising on the site of &lt;a href=&quot;http://madame.lefigaro.fr/mode/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Madame Figaro&lt;/a&gt;. Miuccia Prada and her husband Bertelli, always take their time to implement new concepts, but once the projects start, well, let&#39;s just say they will probably be pioneers in less than 6 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e-shop &lt;a href=&quot;http://prada.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Prada&lt;/a&gt; available for gifts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/3071120267623122659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/3071120267623122659?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/3071120267623122659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/3071120267623122659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/prada-on-net.html' title='Prada On the Net'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfm_ypxGGPdm8s9wxWLRLCnNpVASoW_MEAW97qwoeZeg7G7ADxiZwnUqWYw3LdvRaP7vQUbNbHQgYR8HdFe-NiTA0s-UnQAH7vFiJDbuY-itGuaey3kyn4c6zjtFN-ePFwr5L/s72-c/prada+gifts.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-3261011192760677411</id><published>2007-12-03T19:51:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T12:54:02.488+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ungaro goes to Miami</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5BCavCCCKUND8luDtrxd5i8hX-OrYzoEU5XG5mNnIquJDPe3ZsrK_8eg0w5suCTIT1HuVh2aQefAvsDEsa2TRbrUnLc1PSqXAyMmPdS5pB9xG3Lph-V3x-k2N_J5W1cfEpBmT/s1600-r/ungaro1.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139822792513409186&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGTK3fBTXmB_S226HFV5n-qu3qH3AlG4ZNq0vU4CqyrbaLBLaUItA1SCcy_77hgwgQMRLRUbKFOKRxDdNiKzl43-egHMGVLsqdCN8sFZSZ3qwmmQlySEBME0FDxPvEL94h45z/s200/ungaro1.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Le jeune britannique âgé de 23 ans Esteban Cortazar vient d’être choisi pour succéder au Norvégien Peter Dundas et dessiner les futures collections femme chez Emanuel Ungaro.&lt;br /&gt;Cette nouvelle recrue, très reconnue sur la scène mode new-yorkaise, propose ses propres collections sous sa marque éponyme depuis 2003.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.estebancortazar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ESTEBAN CORTAZAR&lt;/a&gt; or as reviewed by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/designers/bios/estebancortazar/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NYT&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/3261011192760677411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/3261011192760677411?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/3261011192760677411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/3261011192760677411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/ungaro-goes-to-miami.html' title='Ungaro goes to Miami'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGTK3fBTXmB_S226HFV5n-qu3qH3AlG4ZNq0vU4CqyrbaLBLaUItA1SCcy_77hgwgQMRLRUbKFOKRxDdNiKzl43-egHMGVLsqdCN8sFZSZ3qwmmQlySEBME0FDxPvEL94h45z/s72-c/ungaro1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-8770770217335975585</id><published>2007-12-03T15:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-03T15:13:27.036+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Le portrait des Hauts Revenus</title><content type='html'>Un style unique, une histoire prestigieuse, des produits cultes, un savoir-faire : la combinaison gagnante pour une marque de luxe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ipsos.fr/CanalIpsos/articles/2347.asp?rubId=23&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Luxe, consommation et médias au pays des riches. Résultats de la France des Hauts Revenus 2007-IPSOS.&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/8770770217335975585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/8770770217335975585?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/8770770217335975585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/8770770217335975585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/le-portrait-des-hauts-revenus.html' title='Le portrait des Hauts Revenus'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-468316409373172578</id><published>2007-12-03T10:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-03T19:06:40.857+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="e-Business"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategie"/><title type='text'>Luxury - do it yourself at home</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2DD8ghPWwRQ5OgfXcjDwtI38CzEl5rrE74zXBa39puH5Cp-LkMoo98zoozoOlmcZmeeA4huCRq1jsVbKOS4A5PMz0E2DD-CR-kFchuVhH9vCih6Kt9jaR1PsegtVu2QpjEzF/s1600-r/perso+boucheron.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Tfc9AR7crBXNkWUagbzF2oUXU_R8wX47or7y8Xrrlj1bqYt0K2RJGxhkSm2au7PhBeV2Lp0r139eC8nf3FAcZWBifTVzTFzMXQ9ZAism27ZwZMJGx9kBoaxmfA3HdEVDoPaa/s1600-r/perso+boucheron.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139806536062193810&quot; style=&quot;WIDTH: 333px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px&quot; height=&quot;152&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmoTlghEXyihKvkRWsC83pMO-BlyU-9-Z1kWw6DQlmzdIzg97POujyZOAvDZkBP0ZCYB98G3zuh1bc9HhXq6TW0nz6hV69gxSqWFnUBjKVCgzNollyp82KVsK1W4FU_rrnKJx/s320/perso+boucheron.jpg&quot; width=&quot;457&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Adressing the opportunity to generate traffic (and sales) via the web in coherence with existing retail structures, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.louisvuitton.com/web/flash/index.jsp?buy=1&amp;amp;langue=fr_FR&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Louis Vuitton &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boucheron.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Boucheron&lt;/a&gt; have launched new programs for personalisation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;of e-purchases.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPR6oHF3nlD9h74UHBlXkGpSS0_LhfDoQ_OAv0F54RA3KH3-8QxS_FITqCe6QyIA8wWeK-FM3ok5wZn2Ev-AyM4IkGSnaBjXX07FYT0DzE5W3vRpEWCVSJkAQq9Ao7SuK8xCJ/s1600-r/perso+vuitton.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being a household name still counts - but being your household&#39;s brand is better.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Faced with less than euphoric previsions, mainstream luxury brands are countering the effect of recent years&#39; fashion to flood the market with best-sellers by acknowledging individual tastes and providing clients with their unique vision of the brand.The idea isn&#39;t new. This industry has always been about providing and retailing the personally desired (service, product etc).What &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; new is the chanel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;After the wave of open poll sites ( such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ask500people.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ask500people.com&lt;/a&gt; ) brands are leaning in and taking the temperature thanks to croudsourced customer service sites such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redesignme.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;RedesignMe&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://getsatisfaction.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Satisafction&lt;/a&gt;. Concurrently, fashion sites such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.styleshake.com/user/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;StyleShake&lt;/a&gt; appeal to the customers creativity and push the idea of personalisation even further by letting clients design their own garment (taste is optional).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&quot;YOUR OPINION COUNTS&quot; seems to be the slogan on the 2.0 net. The majors in the luxury field, still a little shaky on how to forge their on-line image have heard the plea and have integrated this new fad - branding two birds with one stone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;By offering new high end services to potential cyber-shoppers, luxury houses will simoultaneously create traffic onsite (by proposing a novel internet experience) and introduce the brand&#39;s universe a little further into clients&#39; personal space.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/468316409373172578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/468316409373172578?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/468316409373172578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/468316409373172578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/12/luxury-do-it-yourself-at-home.html' title='Luxury - do it yourself at home'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmoTlghEXyihKvkRWsC83pMO-BlyU-9-Z1kWw6DQlmzdIzg97POujyZOAvDZkBP0ZCYB98G3zuh1bc9HhXq6TW0nz6hV69gxSqWFnUBjKVCgzNollyp82KVsK1W4FU_rrnKJx/s72-c/perso+boucheron.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-8081558340129098369</id><published>2007-11-27T15:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T13:19:53.952+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Stores"/><title type='text'>Baby talks design</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnq2tSmlYFTSWdyN-dXgiflxlLypjCXQdJZygVxPPiKai9vlwzz5c4SnHI62oQsVxsmaQzY3zkPmgxbaeOeXKEWbCMPOEnVoIogfchLlLeHasvOYWQYAq4KOrC8BP-fynuVqU6/s1600-h/bloom.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138235949017883682&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnq2tSmlYFTSWdyN-dXgiflxlLypjCXQdJZygVxPPiKai9vlwzz5c4SnHI62oQsVxsmaQzY3zkPmgxbaeOeXKEWbCMPOEnVoIogfchLlLeHasvOYWQYAq4KOrC8BP-fynuVqU6/s320/bloom.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Speaking of which... babies - what is it about equipping them with the latest designs? -We know perfectly well that they will grow out of them in about a second and a half.&lt;br /&gt;Is it regression to want to have the funkiest stroller? Or is it again, about the experience?&lt;br /&gt;In my case it was sharing the experience and love of beautiful things with my newborn. As we move kids out of a defined play area or nursery and into the rest of the home, their everyday objects have to equally appeal to big and small eyes. Today, there is absolutely no shame (and a great deal of business) in bathing bub in a trendy environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This past year I have spent a lot of energy on trying to find just the right high chair, pram or even baby lamp.&lt;br /&gt;So why wouldn&#39;t I share these online treasures with futur baby design hunters.&lt;br /&gt;Here goes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE LIST&lt;br /&gt;Baby&#39;s room, déco and equipment:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.balouga.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BALOUGA &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moderntots.com/go_play/home.php?cat=334&amp;amp;catexp=334&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;MODERN TOTS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firstwheels.nl/fr/city_elite/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;FIRSTWHEELS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baby&#39;s linen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ovale.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;OVALE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emmamouton.com/boutique/liste_rayons.cfm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;EMMA MOUTON&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airdeje.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;AIRDEJE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.baladeenroulotte.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BALADE EN ROULOTTE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baby&#39;s clothes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.calesta.fr/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;CALESTA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lillibulle.typepad.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;LILLIBULLE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.notsobig.fr/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NOT SO BIG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.littlefashiongallery.com/shop/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;LITTLE FASHION GALLERY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.petitlab.com/marque/index.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;PETIT LAB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marielouisedemonterey.com/profile.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;MARIE LOUISE DE MONTEREY&lt;/a&gt; (for those perfect vintage white blouses and pinnafores)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;So I went a little beserk, ok, but I also managed to wrangle a couple of great items on Ebay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/8081558340129098369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/8081558340129098369?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/8081558340129098369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/8081558340129098369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/11/baby-talks-design.html' title='Baby talks design'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnq2tSmlYFTSWdyN-dXgiflxlLypjCXQdJZygVxPPiKai9vlwzz5c4SnHI62oQsVxsmaQzY3zkPmgxbaeOeXKEWbCMPOEnVoIogfchLlLeHasvOYWQYAq4KOrC8BP-fynuVqU6/s72-c/bloom.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31820737.post-764519444215779946</id><published>2007-11-27T14:47:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-27T16:29:40.940+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6nsCoyPFoPhb9uiyS5BYVL_4nRfSC-gpNkMv64hYy7VuLtFNLoPiy7PCPhK-SGfMI05Ir91dpocUNJCoEiSyporoNQ3cFNw8OJJTye68z5ak61oUTEAhJIo-B1j7UKl3_sQpM/s1600-h/thx.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6nsCoyPFoPhb9uiyS5BYVL_4nRfSC-gpNkMv64hYy7VuLtFNLoPiy7PCPhK-SGfMI05Ir91dpocUNJCoEiSyporoNQ3cFNw8OJJTye68z5ak61oUTEAhJIo-B1j7UKl3_sQpM/s320/thx.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137542633922126610&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh my!&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s been over a year.&lt;br /&gt;I know I have abandoned this blog, but things have just been crazy. New relationship, new house, new baby. And all the while I have been researching ideas concerning the luxury industry. I may as well say that the MBA will have to wait a year or two.&lt;br /&gt;Many people have contacted me and shared their views on mine :) - I just wish to thank you all, it&#39;s encouraging to know that I wasn&#39;t posting into outer space.&lt;br /&gt;But now I am determined to get back up to speed.&lt;br /&gt;Watch out for new posts and follow up&#39;s on old posts soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Type the rest of your post here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/feeds/764519444215779946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/31820737/764519444215779946?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/764519444215779946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31820737/posts/default/764519444215779946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailyluxury.blogspot.com/2007/11/oh-my-its-been-over-year.html' title='Thank you'/><author><name>daily luxury</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06537771767535323538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6nsCoyPFoPhb9uiyS5BYVL_4nRfSC-gpNkMv64hYy7VuLtFNLoPiy7PCPhK-SGfMI05Ir91dpocUNJCoEiSyporoNQ3cFNw8OJJTye68z5ak61oUTEAhJIo-B1j7UKl3_sQpM/s72-c/thx.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>