L2 Study Reveals Shortfalls in Digital Competence

| Fashion 2.0

Digital IQ Index 2011, Greatest Year-Over-Year Gain or Loss | Source: L2

NEW YORK, United States — On Monday, Professor Scott Galloway’s NYU-based thinktank LuxuryLab, or L2, released advance copies of their third annual “Digital IQ” report, assessing the digital competence of 49 global fashion and leather goods firms, to a small number of media outlets, including BoF. According to the study, which will be published later today, fashion brands are embracing digital innovation with enthusiasm and have

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Is Burberry’s Digital Prowess Really Waning?

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Burberry April Showers Accessories | Source: Burberry

LONDON, United Kingdom — For years, digital media experts and observers, including those on this website, have held up Burberry as an example of a luxury fashion brand that’s effectively embracing today’s digital world. Last year, Joanna Shields, Vice President EMEA for Facebook, the world’s largest social network now with more than 700 million registered users, took that one step further. “Burberry is no longer just a fashion

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Second Annual Digital IQ Index of Luxury Brands Released

Fashion 2.0 | New York

Digital IQ Ranking 2010 | Source: LuxuryLab

NEW YORK, United States — Last year BoF reported on the first ever ranking of luxury brands’ digital competence, and today the second ranking, published by New York-based LuxuryLab, was released first to a small number of global media outlets, including BoF. The adoption of digital media has been explosive. Longtime readers from the very beginnings of BoF may recall our first ever post on Fashion 2.0 back in April 2007 when

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Luxury Lab | China: The Biggest Opportunity for Luxury Brands in a Generation

Intelligence | Shanghai

Percent of Luxury Consumers under 45 | Source: NYU Stern

NEW YORK, United States — Making economic predictions isn’t easy these days, what with key indicators slumping one day and then bouncing back the next. But even as the global economy keeps market observers and analysts on their toes, there is one thing that everyone seems to agree on: the pre-eminence of the Chinese economy. Last month, the Chinese government announced that it was depegging its currency from the US dollar,

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Luxury Lab | Generation Next: Understanding Tomorrow’s Affluent Consumer

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Tavi Gevinson at Generation Next | Source: Luxury Lab

NEW YORK, United States — With speakers including teenage blogging sensation, Tavi Gevinson and Teen Vogue publisher Laura McEwen, last Friday’s “Generation Next Forum,” organized by New York-based thinktank LuxuryLab, examined the unique characteristics and growing influence of a young generation of consumers that’s set to impact the luxury goods industry like no other generation since the Baby Boomers: Generation Y. Wired and

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