August 2, 2016
The newest outlet center from France’s Concepts & Distribution creates quiet elegance with a tenant mix that’s nearly all French.
While international fashionistas in Paris consider a trip to La Vallée paramount, true Parisians often leave the city in the opposite direction. On the A13 highway to Normandy, they stop at a midway point about 40 kilometers from Paris at Marques Avenue A13. That’s where they get their outlet fix, to...
August 13, 2015
In early May, I attended the Luxury Roundtable: State of Luxury 2013 in New York, organized and hosted by The Luxury Daily and its editor-in-chief Mickey Alam Khan. It featured speakers from the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Mercedes-Benz, Donna Karan, Graff Diamonds, Michael Kors, Tod’s, The Wall Street Journal, Boston Consulting Group, ePrize and and Ipsos MediaCT. This was a very exclusive and thought provoking forum for...
April 21, 2015
It isn’t only consumer product goods companies targeted at the middle class that fared poorly in 2014. Regardless of what the confidence readings or the employment indicators say, shoppers around the world have exercised restraint for a number of years and have not returned to their free-spending ways of the late 90s and early 2000s.
Blame it on exogenous factors ranging from the Crimean crisis and the sanctions imposed on weal...
February 15, 2014
Investment Thesis: Hugo Boss is a premium luxury brand with global appeal far exceeding current supply. Opportunities span under-penetrated Asian and the Americas expansion, growing owned retail operations, developing women’s apparel and accessories business and continued operational efficiencies. With its entry price points to luxury and a strong price/value equation, the Hugo Boss brand is positioned to benefit from the grow...
January 24, 2014
In early May, I attended the Luxury Roundtable: State of Luxury 2013 in New York, organized and hosted by The Luxury Daily and its editor-in-chief Mickey Alam Khan. It featured speakers from the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Mercedes-Benz, Donna Karan, Graff Diamonds, Michael Kors, Tod’s, The Wall Street Journal, Boston Consulting Group, ePrize and and Ipsos MediaCT. This was a very exclusive and thought provoking forum for...
January 24, 2014
MK is no LV: It’s Not Coach Either
Is this any way to manage a Jet Set brand? Maybe, if you’re looking for a quick exit.
Listening to Michael Kors CFO Joe Parsons speak at ICR on January 16, 2013 on the Kors Jet Set aesthetic—spanning wings, wheels and water—I was reminded of the brand Louis Vuitton, also rooted in luxury travel. I make the comparison to Louis Vuitton for several reasons, beginning with its origins as a provide...
October 16, 2013
CHANNEL CHECK: Luxury Channel Check Posh on parade at Bicester Village
IOJ’s luxury analyst pays a visit to Value Retail’s top-producing outlet village.
My MECCA IS 130 luxury shops in a rural setting less than an hour from London by train. Today the town of Bicester, England, is as much known for Value Retail’s designer outlet village there as it is for its 1,000 years of Saxon history and its proximity to Bleinheim Palace (W...
September 16, 2011