Saint Laurent News & Analysis

Can ‘New Bottega’ Balance Hype, Heritage and Rapid Growth?

29 October 2020 • By Robert Williams

Can ‘New Bottega’ Balance Hype, Heritage and Rapid Growth?

Amid surging sales, Bottega Veneta needs to keep up the momentum without losing its discreet charm. CEO Bartolomeo Rongone talks exclusively to BoF about the reinvention of the Italian heritage brand and where it’s headed from here.

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Should Luxury Build Resale Into Its Business Model?

9 October 2020 • By Vikram Alexei Kansara

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Should Luxury Build Resale Into Its Business Model?

This week, Gucci launched a partnership with The RealReal, betting that the rewards of engaging with the second-hand market outweigh the risks.

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Luxury Makes Gains Despite Chaos

6 October 2020 • By Pierre Mallevays

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Luxury Makes Gains Despite Chaos

The market proved resilient through WHO warnings of a Covid spike in Europe, huge uncertainty over Brexit and the US elections, and the collapse of the sector’s biggest deal, as investors set their eyes on 2021.

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Op-Ed | How Luxury Became Fast Fashion

5 October 2020 • By Liroy Choufan

Step by step, luxury brands have adopted the fast fashion model, with Covid-19 set to complete the shift, argues Liroy Choufan.

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Op-Ed | How Luxury Became Fast Fashion

Step by step, luxury brands have adopted the fast fashion model, with Covid-19 set to complete the shift, argues Liroy Choufan.

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Anthony Vaccarello Reveals Collaboration with Helmut Lang

29 September 2020 • By Tim Blanks

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Anthony Vaccarello Reveals Collaboration with Helmut Lang

In an exclusive interview with Tim Blanks, Saint Laurent Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello reveals the thinking behind his new collaboration with elusive former fashion designer Helmut Lang and his vision for a post-pandemic fashion industry.

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Fashion Week Can’t Be Just Another Online Video Festival

11 September 2020 • By Imran Amed

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Fashion Week Can’t Be Just Another Online Video Festival

One thing’s for sure, appointments and digital videos do not a fashion week make. But for now, let’s make the most of it and reconnect as a community, writes Imran Amed.

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What Happened to Rethinking the Fashion System?

17 July 2020 • By Vikram Alexei Kansara

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What Happened to Rethinking the Fashion System?

For brands big and small, there is real value in rethinking the industry’s traditional system of showing, delivering and discounting collections to better match today’s globalised, digital world. But meaningful change may take 12 to 24 months.

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See You in September?

26 June 2020 • By Vikram Alexei Kansara

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See You in September?

Major European luxury brands are placing bets on a September fashion month that is sure to be unlike any other, if it actually happens.

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Will Luxury Resale Take Off in China? It’s Complicated.

21 May 2020 • By Casey Hall

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Will Luxury Resale Take Off in China? It’s Complicated.

Before the pandemic there were hopes that young Chinese consumers were finally warming to the idea of luxury resale after cultural taboos about secondhand clothes abated. But with post-virus safety concerns now front of mind the market has hit another impasse.

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Why Fashion 'Seasons' Are Obsolete

1 May 2020 • By Vikram Alexei Kansara

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Why Fashion 'Seasons' Are Obsolete

This week, Saint Laurent said it would skip Paris Fashion Week and set its own schedule for showing collections for the rest of the year, raising deeper questions about following universal fashion seasons in a global market.

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