You can tell a great deal about a person by their hands… Particularly if they are plastered in luxury logos.
Nail artist Sophy Robson has created a range of luxury logo nail designs, and according to her blog, she is planning to offer the service in her London salon soon. It’s not yet clear whether legal [...]
2010 is the 50th anniversary of the Godard classic, A Bout de Souffle, and a new print of the movie has recently been released. As part of the unofficial tribute, Neighborhoodies has created a New York Herald Tribune t-shirt line, like the one worn by Jean Seberg in the above clip.
But the New York Times [...]
In May, after an intervention by Louis Vuitton, the Kobe Fashion Museum agreed to close the exhibition by installation artist Okamoto Mitsuhiro, and to stop selling the accompanying show catalogs. Now, the artist has discovered that Louis Vuitton plans to prosecute him.
The exhibition, called “Batta Mon” — a play on the words batta “locust” and [...]
This week, The Economist picked up on a theme that we have written about in the past, the psychological effect of counterfeit luxury, and in an article called Rose-coloured Spectacles it reports on some U.S. research by Dr. Francesca Gino around the relationship between behaviour around counterfeit luxury sunglasses…
“Dr Gino and her colleagues provided a [...]
This week, Christian Louboutin launched an aggressive attack on counterfeiters, via a new website – stopfakelouboutin.com – featuring video destruction of a pile of fake Louboutin shoes. According to the WSJ, Louboutin lawyers hope that the footage will go viral. That might be optimistic, it’s not exactly compelling footage, but it certainly sends out a [...]
Yesterday, the Comité Colbert, France’s organization launched a new website in called cColbert.cn aimed at showcasing French luxury brands to a growing Chinese audience.
The Comité Colbert is a slightly curious organization, a kind of lobbying organization on behalf of its members – 70 French luxury brands – but one which has no parallel outside France. [...]
Earlier this year – and published in Edition #3 of our Fluxe newsletter – we conducted an interview with Dan Ariely, author of the book Predictably Irrational, and an lecturer in behavioral economics at MIT.
Anyone who has read his book will know that one of the main principles of his research is the effect that [...]
Earlier this year, on behalf of a luxury client, we conducted research into the idea of devotion. They wanted to get a better understanding of the transcendental appeal of luxury brands, and how consumers express their affiliation with certain luxury brands.
In particular they wanted to find out how consumers respond to unofficial, co-opted/remixed/ unauthorized affiliation [...]