Luxury Goods and Services

August 9, 2023

The Return of Manual-Wind Watches

One industry executive describes the old-fashioned way of keeping a watch working as “a moment of contemplation, a moment to take for yourself.” As if mechanical […]
July 23, 2023

Louis Vuitton Watches Move Upmarket

As it announced a watch case redesign, the brand said it will make fewer, but more sophisticated, timepieces for higher prices. “This is probably the most […]
July 23, 2023

The Watch Universe in Singapore is Expanding

Major brands are opening new shops, local entrepreneurs are growing their lines and collectors are getting new contenders. Singapore is flourishing as a market for Swiss […]
July 23, 2023

It’s Simple: Fewer Watches, Higher Prices

“Let’s face the reality,” one executive said, “this is a trend in the luxury business. And we are part of that business.” In 2022, the value […]
July 22, 2023

‘Quiet Luxury’ Becomes a Flex for the Ultrarich

In what now seems the quaint era of Truman Capote’s baroque social diagrams, what distinguished the truly wealthy from the merely rich was the better vegetables […]
July 16, 2023

Style Icon Jane Birkin’s Looks Over the Decades

There are few things more tedious than the term “fashion icon,” but that is not to suggest people don’t exist who definitively set styles for their […]
June 29, 2023

The Rise of Luxury IV Drips for Hangovers

High-powered revelers are trying to hack their hangovers with concierge infusions. Some go for Alka-Seltzer. Others, Pedialyte. Anthony Bourdain had a recipe: aspirin, a cold Coca-Cola, […]
June 28, 2023

Does ‘And Just Like That …’ Signal the End of Stealth Wealth?

So does the pop culture and fashion wheel turn. And just like that, stealth wealth, the aesthetic made viral by “Succession,” with its toxic billionaires in […]
June 18, 2023

Pharrell Williams on His New Role at Louis Vuitton

Earlier this month, Pharrell Williams was in the men’s atelier on the second floor of Louis Vuitton’s corporate office in Paris, sunglasses on, surveying his new […]
June 1, 2023

The Balenciaga Comeback Is Happening

At the Cannes Film Festival, the Met Gala and with a new collection. Is the world ready? Demna, the mononymic designer of Balenciaga, that former harbinger […]