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VOGUE

TRAVEL
​​Invisible Venice

Escape the crowds of the Biennale's galas and exhibitions to the Venetian Lagoon's oasis of serene style and native sustenance.

BUSINESS
Speak, Luxury

In this issue for the Conde Nast International Luxury Summit 2018, we parse what translates luxury from past tense to future.

SUSTAINABILITY
Faux or Fur?

Fur is dead. Or is it? For all its luxury, some say we must move on. But is going faux the answer? Go inside fashion's hairiest debate.

POLITICS
The Fashion of Power

Since ancient Egypt, politicians' sartorial choices have been on the front lines of communication. In today's media-savvy era, do clothes still speak?

TRAVEL
Crown Jewel

Paris's landmark Hôtel de Crillon reopens its doors as an icon where art, diplomacy and luxury combine. Take an exclusive tour.

TRAVEL
Lisbon's Great Shake-Up

Once the epicenter of a global empire, Lisbon is tearing back to life with tastemakers drawn to its high style and hidden secrets.

F1S TRAVEL – F1RST MAGAZINE

HOTELS
Pretty, Pretty Pugliese

The hardscrabble earth of Puglia grows a lifestyle ruled by simplicity. Here, Rocco Forte gathers the ingredients for laid-back luxury.

DESTINATIONS
Madrid, City on the Verge

If Barcelona is flirty, feisty, then Madrid is her stoic sister. But dissonance between what you’ve heard and what you see happens again and again.

HOTELS
Hong Kong Homecoming

Rosewood’s new flagship hotel holds special significance for the company's owners.

DESTINATIONS
Neo Tokyo

Unlock the algorithm that turned a millennium-old village into the city of the future.

ADVENTURES
Botswana, Call of the Kalahari

With luxe Botswana lodges, Belmond Safaris take you into the heart of Africa.

PROUDLY PORTUGAL

TOURISM PROMOTION
Portugal. Travel to Feel.

SOCIAL ACTIVISM
Beyond Proud: EuroPride 2022 Portugal

ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST

LUXURY SOCIETY

The Met Costume Institute's Multicultural Scramble

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's show "China: Through the Looking Glass" merits a much longer and more contemplative wander than the crowds will allow.

How Gucci Succeeds
​Where Davos Fails

Luxury is at the frontline of today’s most pressing issues. Can luxury brands help leaders open the door to sustainability, social inclusion and security? Yes, and this is how.

From ​Sustainable Luxury to Luxurious Sustainability

At the 1.618 Sustainable Luxury conference in Paris, major players marked a turning point in the future of high-end commerce. Sustainability has never looked more tempting.

KERING – K MAGAZINE

FIT for Purpose: Fashion Curator Valerie Steele

Valerie Steele, Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, discusses how fashion is a sociological tool more than a shallow industry with passing trends.

Manly Pitti: Shaping Italian Menswear Identity

How did Pitti Immagine evolve from promoting fashion to shaping society? Chief executive Raffaello Napoleone explains the role of Tuscany, Italy’s centre of excellence for garment manufacturing.

In an Italian Light: Architect, Raffaella Bortoluzzi

In her designs for Pomellato jewelry stores, Raffaella Bortoluzzi has a penchant for spare interiors that manage to be warm and richly layered, while using new techniques and sustainable materials.

Object Lesson: Luxury and the Fine Art of Possession

"Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment", at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, provides the poignant prerequisite to understanding our modern obsession with luxury.

DELTA AIRLINES – SKY MAGAZINE

Nous Aimons Paris

If we love Paris for its familiar imagery, that elegant surface hides a counter-cultural soul that shapes where the culture is going next.

Louis Vuitton and the Changing Art of Luxury

With the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Bernard Arnault is helping to redefine luxury for the future.

HUFFPOST

Lisbon Puts a Fashion Foot Forward

Renowned for apparel production, and now trending in tourism, art and tech, Portugal is on the road to fashion recognition.

Jeff Koons' Degradation of Luxury

The Pompidou Center explores the link between decadence and degradation at the core of our love-hate affair with luxury.

A Journey into the Heart of Luxury

At Hotel Monteverdi Tuscany, simplicity offers real meaning in a world often consumed with image and spin.

EDITORIAL PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Hamptons Magazine

Hamptons celebrates the affluent and influential beach-front community of Long Island’s East End. The weekly magazine required regular feature articles on travel and interiors, including original text, producing photo shoots, managing freelancers, and curating and editing final content.

Self Service Magazine

Self Service is a biannual fashion and culture magazine, widely referred to as the leading publication for designers and art directors.  A complete editorial management function oversaw production and operational budgets, content decisions, scheduling, creative contracts and print quality.

BRAND STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT

REAL LUXURY: HOW LUXURY BRANDS
​CAN CREATE VALUE FOR THE LONG TERM

by Misha Pinkhasov and Rachna Joshi Nair
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

​Real Luxury examines what luxury brands are from a new perspective: from economic, sociological and psychological standpoints. It spells out the challenges the luxury sector is facing and puts forward a brand new and practical model to revive and protect luxury brands in the long term, based on the authors' experience with leading global luxury brands. Linking luxury with market forces including sustainability, the globalized economy, and the impact of technology, this book provides an accessible and innovative way of thinking about luxury brand management, with insights from current thought leaders and innovators behind the brands.

CONTRIBUTING TO INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP IN THE PROFESSION

HUDSON WALKER INTERNATIONAL:
​LUXURY RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS
New Markets Don't Change
the Old Realities of Luxury​

Luxury is only luxury when it stands out from our usual experience. Otherwise, there is only, at best, delivering what's expected.

OECD: THE ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC
COOPERATION ​AND DEVELOPMENT
OECD Insights: Can Luxury
Lead Us Out of Inequality?​

Policy reformers need an attractive platform for their ideas and luxury brands need to reconnect with their leadership potential.

EACD: THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF
​COMMUNICATION DIRECTORS
Communicating Luxury, Communicating Leadership​

With the pressure on to stay relevant, the managers of luxury brands must find new ways to communicate their brands' value.