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196 stories · Updated October 2026

Moving Now18

What is moving in the luxury economy this week: deals, appointments and results, read for what they change.

  1. F.P. Journe and Chanel Buy Ebel for $66.5 Million: A New Way to Own a Watch Brand11 Oct 2026
  2. Titan Q2 2026: The Dubai Jeweller Behind the Growth Abroad10 Oct 2026
  3. WWTC Global Summit 2026: Who Captures the Value of Luxury Travel9 Oct 2026
  4. The Lech Mountain Mirror and the Alps’ Turn to Stillness9 Oct 2026
  5. YKK’s Replaceable Zipper Teeth Put Repair Into the Supply Chain8 Oct 2026
  6. Design Museum Gent Reopens With a Wing Built From the City’s Waste7 Oct 2026
  7. People Moves: Delvaux, Pucci, Chanel and Santa Maria Novella7 Oct 2026
  8. SO/ Vienna’s Das LOFT Reopens, Darker by Design6 Oct 2026
  9. Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2026: Saikindō and Carbone Riviera Win the Top Prizes5 Oct 2026
  10. Europe’s Shoe Exports Fall, Hitting Spain and Italy Hardest4 Oct 2026
  11. Alexander McQueen’s New CEO Prepares a Three-Year Plan for Kering3 Oct 2026
  12. Africa Is Moving From Fashion Visibility to Fashion Infrastructure2 Oct 2026
  13. AI Wealth Effect: A Record $12.8 Trillion Quarter Splits the US Economy2 Oct 2026
  14. Luxury Beauty in South Africa: Clicks Moves to Control ARC1 Oct 2026
  15. SUJÁN Safari Camps Expand From India to Zambia1 Oct 2026
  16. Kering Reorganises Its Supply Chain and Keeps Production in Italy30 Sep 2026
  17. Global Fibre Production Hits a Record 139 Million Tonnes, and the Growth Is Fossil30 Sep 2026
  18. Four 2026 Studies Show Authenticity Is Beating Prestige30 Sep 2026
Economy55

Markets, results, wealth and the structural shifts behind the luxury economy.

  1. Titan Q2 2026: Grown at Home, Bought Abroad10 Oct 2026
  2. Shein Shares Hit a Record Low as LVMH Falls to a 52-Week Low1 Oct 2026
  3. Rolex Is Closing the Loop29 Sep 2026
  4. The Four Seasons and the Crown: Rolex Takes Its Daytonas to Auction29 Sep 2026
  5. The Gilded Divide: How Luxury Outran the American Consumer in H1 202619 Sep 2026
  6. Armani Without Giorgio: The House Opens a New Chapter17 Sep 2026
  7. The Long Goodbye: What LVMH Really Sold When It Parted Ways with Marc Jacobs9 Sep 2026
  8. Owning Beats Working: AI Wealth and the American Dream on Credit21 Aug 2026
  9. NASA wears Prada: How the heritage brand is defying market gravity16 Aug 2026
  10. 2.4 Billion Swiss Francs and a Narrower Truth: The Swiss Watch Rebound13 Aug 2026
  11. The Counter Becomes a Vault: What Japan’s Jewellery Record Actually Measures13 Aug 2026
  12. One Country, Two Economies: AI Wealth and the End of an American Illusion10 Aug 2026
  13. Paris, 1987: How the Luxury Pyramid Became an Hourglass9 Aug 2026
  14. Hermès H1 2026: Quality Sets the Quantity30 Jul 2026
  15. Kering H1 2026: Gucci Racing and the New Currency of Desire29 Jul 2026
  16. LVMH H1 2026: Growing Where Wealth Is Created27 Jul 2026
  17. Luxury Supply Chain ESG: Franco-Italian Framework Sets 46 Shared Requirements24 Jul 2026
  18. The Next Generation of Collectors: Taking the Saleroom Stage22 Jul 2026
  19. A Mirror Set, a Blue-Green Diamond, a Journe: Four Records and One Rule22 Jul 2026
  20. The Weave, the Scent and the Fiat 500: Why Kering Sent a Perfumer to Bottega Veneta15 Jul 2026
  21. Beauty Enters Its Pincer Moment: Expression Gives Way to Vitality10 Jul 2026
  22. Beyond Paris and New York: The New Powers of the Luxury Skincare Market6 Jul 2026
  23. Beauty Outgrows the Core: The Market the Houses Are Redrawing29 Jun 2026
  24. The New Geographies of Watch Power23 Jun 2026
  25. The ReconKering Dossier: How Kering Marks the Turn in Luxury17 Jun 2026
  26. Kering ReconKering: The Value of Time16 Jun 2026
  27. The Renaulution of Luxury: How Platforms Meet the Ateliers16 Jun 2026
  28. Kering’s ReconKering, Read from the Record: Eleven Questions on McQueen, Jewellery and China16 Jun 2026
  29. The Inversion: Why the Rare Objects Market Now Outvalues the New7 Jun 2026
  30. F.P. Journe Souscription Résonance Sets $13.9 Million Auction Record at Phillips New York5 Jun 2026
  31. The Cost of the Empty Hype: Alexander McQueen, Kering and the Reckoning That Was Always Coming2 Jun 2026
  32. An Island Named Eudaimonia: A Conversation on Why True Luxury Is Unrepeatable29 May 2026
  33. The Luxury Brand Pyramid 2026: Beyond the Vertical Model28 May 2026
  34. The Eyewear Split: How a $173 Billion Market Is Dividing Into Two Irreconcilable Logics27 May 2026
  35. Strategic Shift in Linz: What the New CEO Christian Bachler Means for Silhouette27 May 2026
  36. The Great Luxury Garage Sale: An Industry Clears Its Shelves22 May 2026
  37. The Outliers: Hermès Grew Anyway as the US Luxury Market Pulled Apart in Q1 202620 May 2026
  38. The Hourglass Snaps Shut: What the US Luxury Market Reveals in 202617 May 2026
  39. At the Apex and Below It: A Structural Diagnosis of the US Luxury Market14 May 2026
  40. The Return on Repair: What Circular Fashion Pays Back to LVMH, Gucci and Patagonia9 May 2026
  41. Import Duties on Swiss Watches in India: What Changed in 20261 May 2026
  42. Luca de Meo Named True Luxury: The Conversation Has Just Begun.22 Apr 2026
  43. The System Shift: How Luxury Consumption Is Being Rebuilt From the Ground Up21 Apr 2026
  44. Why Is the Middle Collapsing? The Structural Breakdown of Aspirational Luxury21 Apr 2026
  45. The Hourglass Economy: Where the Middle Went21 Apr 2026
  46. The Magic is Spent: The Structural Shift of the Luxury Market 202620 Apr 2026
  47. India’s Luxury Watch Market: The New Geography of Power on the Wrist6 Apr 2026
  48. Economy of Togetherness29 Mar 2026
  49. The Renaissance of Italian Fashion: Made in Italy in 20267 Jan 2026
  50. The Strategy of Control: Swiss Watchmaking’s Resilience in Crisis3 Jan 2026
  51. The $150 Billion Void: Confronting the Loss in the Fashion Industry31 Dec 2025
  52. Global Watch Market: Why India & Mexico are the New Strategic Anchors14 Nov 2025
  53. Couture Régénérative: The Paradigm Shift in Luxury Consciousness8 Nov 2025
  54. Time Under Pressure: Navigating the Tides of a Changing World25 Oct 2025
  55. Time Under Pressure: Swiss Watchmaking Sheds Its Middle9 Oct 2025
Movers27

The people and houses changing direction, and why it matters.

  1. Lacoste’s CEO Change and the Promise of the Crocodile9 Oct 2026
  2. The Silver Heel Tab and the Swoosh: Alexandre Arnault Joins Nike’s Board25 Sep 2026
  3. Anton Rupert Moves Up at Richemont as the Rupert Succession Takes Shape17 Sep 2026
  4. Three Women, One City: How Luca de Meo Put Sabina Belli, Charlotte Fournet and Krizia Cucurachi in Charge of Kering in Milan17 Sep 2026
  5. Spazio Gio Ponti: Milan Finally Gives Its Architect a Home26 Aug 2026
  6. Michaela Karl on Schiaparelli: Smart Women Pay for Their Own Clothes19 Jun 2026
  7. Lulu Shabell on Why African Heritage Belongs to Africa13 Jun 2026
  8. The Architecture of Sovereignty: Lulu Shabell on Cultural Intelligence13 Jun 2026
  9. The Quiet Discipline: How Two European Manufacturers Build Trust on the Factory Floor12 Jun 2026
  10. “We Think in Generations, Not Seasons”: Silhouette CEO Christian Bachler on Trust, Purity, and the Long Game27 May 2026
  11. Carlo Petrini and the Political Right to Slowness25 May 2026
  12. Shocking Pink: How Elsa Schiaparelli Taught the World to See a Woman13 Apr 2026
  13. Interview with Tanja Störchli: “The Clover Leaf Was Missing from the World of Bags”25 Mar 2026
  14. The Woman Who Invented Saint-Tropez and Liberated Fashion29 Dec 2025
  15. Atil Kotuglu: Between Restraint and Celebration11 Nov 2025
  16. Lotta Ludwigson: Slow Luxury für selbstbewusste Frauen8 Nov 2025
  17. Volcanic Soul: Piegatto and the Architecture of the Perfect Wave8 Nov 2025
  18. Eva Winterer23 Oct 2025
  19. The New Generation: Why Javier Goyeneche Demands Business with an Honest Soul17 Oct 2025
  20. Ecoalf Recycled Fashion: The Honest Revolution of Javier Goyeneche17 Oct 2025
  21. Diane Keaton: The Living Legacy of a Style Without Compromise12 Oct 2025
  22. The Timeless Beauty of Fate29 Sep 2025
  23. Ikorrok: When Fallow Land Becomes the Stage27 Sep 2025
  24. Becoming Love: Rahul Mishra and the Revolution of Regenerative Couture17 Sep 2025
  25. A Legacy of Timeless Elegance and Responsibility4 Sep 2025
  26. “Delicious is Not Enough!” – The Radical Art of Dulcesserie23 Aug 2025
  27. CICONIIDAE: Swiss Craftsmanship as a Counterpoint to Mass Production21 Jul 2025
Creation33

Craft, materials, fashion and the knowledge behind how things are made.

  1. McQueen Is Home Now: London Tailoring Shapes the House’s Next Chapter3 Oct 2026
  2. Rolls-Royce Ghost Savile Row: Ieuan Hatherall on Designing From the Inside Out20 Sep 2026
  3. Savile Row: One Block of Mayfair, Two Centuries of Bespoke Tailoring15 Sep 2026
  4. The Caliber of the Deep: Blancpain and the Ocean Photographer of the Year 202611 Sep 2026
  5. German Jewellery Market: Jörg Gellner Sells His Pearl House to the Dettinger Group7 Sep 2026
  6. McQueen Is Coming Home: McGirr’s Sharpest Season Yet14 Aug 2026
  7. The Value Left the Ground: Forever Was the Easy Part19 Jul 2026
  8. A New Watch for 2027: The 12th Art Makes Its Case for Watchmaking as an Art25 Jun 2026
  9. The Anonymous Designer Signs His Name: Martin Margiela Releases His Own Archive21 Jun 2026
  10. Knowledge Is the Technology: Casein, Natural Yarn and Two Studios Rethinking the Craft11 Jun 2026
  11. Schiaparelli Rediscovered: The Designer Who Made Fashion an Act of Independence5 Jun 2026
  12. The Pyjama That Starts in the Field15 May 2026
  13. From Fibre to Skin: Inside Remei’s Start of Life Cotton13 May 2026
  14. Padma Doree: Where Eri Silk Meets Chanderi11 May 2026
  15. The SaloneSatellite Award 2026: Five Projects and the Future of Design10 May 2026
  16. Wool, Silk and Linen: How the Three Natural Luxury Fabrics Differ10 May 2026
  17. Nairobi Fashion Week 2026: Decarbonize and the Material Future of African Fashion8 May 2026
  18. What Touches the Skin: Where Luxury Fibres Come From3 May 2026
  19. Salone Raritas 2026: Inside Salone del Mobile’s First Collectible Design Section30 Apr 2026
  20. Local Soul: The Quiet Rise of Independent Luxury25 Apr 2026
  21. Why Is Jewellery Outperforming Fashion in the Luxury Market?21 Apr 2026
  22. Inside the Trophy: Better instead of more27 Mar 2026
  23. Co-Creation of The Boyciana25 Mar 2026
  24. Lotta Ludwigson: The LUMA Principle20 Mar 2026
  25. What the Season Preserved18 Mar 2026
  26. The New Geography of Jewellery: From Imperial Beijing to Hammered Nairobi4 Jan 2026
  27. Lumikello: Warum wahre Qualität und Design Zeit brauchen5 Dec 2025
  28. The Design of Trust: Workwear’s New Code9 Nov 2025
  29. The 14-Day Reset: Finding the Living Rhythm of a Digital-Free Bedroom8 Oct 2025
  30. A Woven Icon: The Art of Buffalo Leather at Tenuta Vannulo1 Oct 2025
  31. The Flight of the Cranes7 Sep 2025
  32. Two Voices of a New Haute Couture: The Rise of Couture Régénérative16 Aug 2025
  33. Copenhagen Fashion Week: Couture Régénérative – The Most Beautiful Form of Longevity10 Aug 2025
Senses23

Beauty, taste, scent and the experiences that are felt before they are explained.

  1. The Great Small Vintage of 2026: A Season of Concentration11 Sep 2026
  2. The Taste of El Niño: How Drought and Heat Are Rewriting the Chemistry of Wine, Oil and Linen8 Sep 2026
  3. A Sale That Ends in a Memo: The 2010s Stay at Estée Lauder20 Jul 2026
  4. The Nature of Beauty: From the Mirror to the Cell29 Jun 2026
  5. Local Life Systems: How a Port City and a São Paulo Park Took Over the Work Luxury Houses Used to Do12 Jun 2026
  6. Prix Versailles 2026: The Architecture of Dining5 Jun 2026
  7. The Water Keeps Flowing: A Journey Through the Architecture of Well Living22 May 2026
  8. When All Five Senses Converge: In the Heart of Milan23 Apr 2026
  9. Sensorium Milano: Hypnos3 Apr 2026
  10. BOYCIANA: The Moment of Landing25 Mar 2026
  11. The White Promise21 Mar 2026
  12. Bülow Lakrids: From Black Provocation to Global Luxury10 Dec 2025
  13. Die fünf Elemente der Seele20 Oct 2025
  14. A Manifesto for Decelerated Awakening: The Return of the Analog Morning22 Sep 2025
  15. The High Art of Perfect Imperfection12 Sep 2025
  16. The New Tuscany Lies in the Alps9 Sep 2025
  17. Santomiele: The Sweet Taste of Time1 Sep 2025
  18. The Cultivated Minimalist and His Natural Grooming Ritual27 Aug 2025
  19. Men Like Moisturizer: The Renaissance of Conscious Grooming25 Aug 2025
  20. Sin (Almost) Without Regret: The Sweet Manifesto of Dulcesserie23 Aug 2025
  21. Sensorium Milano: A Symphony for the Soul23 Jul 2025
  22. San Salvatore 1988: A Working Circular Economy in the Cilento19 Jul 2025
  23. Sensorium Milano: The Alchemy of Perception19 Jul 2025
Spaces26

Hotels, places and architecture, and the time spent in them.

  1. The Second Row: Das LOFT and the Architecture of Hospitality in Vienna6 Oct 2026
  2. The Store Is the New Runway: Gucci and Moncler Turn Shopping Into an Experience29 Sep 2026
  3. Villa Nava: The Spaceship That Became a Home14 Sep 2026
  4. The Yellow Oil: How Saudi Arabia Turns Its Landscape into Wealth2 Sep 2026
  5. Casa all’Italiana: Gio Ponti’s Houses, Where the Soul Finds Peace26 Aug 2026
  6. Cilento: Concentrates, Cycles, Continuity12 Jul 2026
  7. From Baja California to Bhutan: Hospitecture and the Stays That Treat Arrival as a Health Decision21 May 2026
  8. 1 Hotel Tokyo: Ōya Stone, a Zen Garden Ceiling and an Hourglass in the Shower19 May 2026
  9. Albergo Diffuso: The Streets Are the Corridors12 May 2026
  10. La Fiermontina Lecce: Three Hotels Inside the Old City Walls11 May 2026
  11. Salone del Mobile 2026: What the 64th Milan Design Week Said About the Future of Design28 Apr 2026
  12. Borgo La Pietraia: A Hotel Built Like a Home24 Apr 2026
  13. Built to Stay: What the places you remember are made of24 Apr 2026
  14. Slow Hospitality: Conscious Luxury Travel in 202623 Mar 2026
  15. Nine Seconds in the Feed or Nine Days in the North Sea.30 Jan 2026
  16. Wildes Moos: The Return of Touch21 Jan 2026
  17. Hospi-tecture: When Architecture Becomes Medicine23 Dec 2025
  18. How Slow Hospitality Is Reshaping the Structure of the Stay23 Nov 2025
  19. Carved into the Rock: Saudi Arabia’s New Desert Resorts16 Nov 2025
  20. Alleine mit Leonardos Dame mit Hermelin30 Oct 2025
  21. Typhoon Wood and Oyster Shells28 Oct 2025
  22. A Day in Authenticity: Wenn das Telefon bedeutungslos wird25 Oct 2025
  23. La Fiermontina Palazzo Bozzi Corso: Of Hollywood Glamour and Imagine Dreams9 Aug 2025
  24. La Fiermontina Museo: Where the Past Takes a Room30 Jul 2025
  25. La Fiermontina Luxury Home: A Love Story in Stone, Art and Soul24 Jul 2025
  26. No End to Essence: The Sensorium Milano’s Lasting Resonance23 Jul 2025
Essence14

The ideas that hold The Silent Luxury together.

  1. Authenticity Is the New Luxury: Proof, Belonging and Provenance Now Outrank Prestige1 Oct 2026
  2. The Future of Luxury: Made for the Next Generations11 Sep 2026
  3. The Cultural Intelligence Dossier: How Africa Sets the Measure of Luxury Value17 Jun 2026
  4. African Craft Knowledge as Luxury Value, 75,000 Years Deep14 Jun 2026
  5. The Matrix of High-End Value: Decoding Silent, Quiet, and Regenerative Luxury23 May 2026
  6. Regenerative Luxury: What the Fibre Data Shows12 May 2026
  7. Couture Régénérative 2026: The Paradigm Shift in Luxury Fashion3 May 2026
  8. Is Luxury Losing Its Aura? The Disenchantment of Desire21 Apr 2026
  9. What Does Value Mean in Luxury 2026?21 Apr 2026
  10. The Luxury Recalibration: Trust as the Only Hard Currency9 Apr 2026
  11. Eva Winterer on the Remapping of Luxury: The Economics of Permanence7 Jan 2026
  12. Couture Régénérative: The Architecture of Value in Luxury15 Dec 2025
  13. The Horizon as an Invitation to Think Further24 Nov 2025
  14. Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion7 Oct 2025