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luxury retail

Designer Carolina Herrera adjusts a garment on a model

At New York Fashion Week, Fashion’s Next Status Symbol Is Proof

Quince’s Dakota Kate Isaacs unpacks how fashion’s traditional relationship between status, price and brand mythology is changing. Isaacs argues that fashion’s next status symbol will be proof: the ability to understand what a product is made of, how it was made, why it costs what it costs and whether the story around it can withstand scrutiny.
By Dakota Kate Isaacs
Models pose with a shopping cart during the Esmara By Heidi Klum Lidl Fashion Presentation at New York Fashion Week #Letswow at ArtBeam on September 7, 2017 in New York City.

Fashion’s Next Front Row Is the A.I. Shopping Interface

As A.I. increasingly mediates product discovery, fashion brands face a new question: who controls the interaction between shopper and storefront? Swap’s Sam Atkinson contends that fashion brands have an opportunity to make digital shopping more bespoke without sacrificing the curation and intelligence they have spent years building.
By Sam Atkinson
Business negotiations at the booths in Hall II, the jewelry section of Pavilion 27 in Milan, Italy on April 14th, 1973.

The Heirlooms of 2080 Are Being Made Today

Serpentine Jewels’ Ali Galgano explores how today's jewelry becomes tomorrow's heirlooms, examining why collectors are increasingly drawn to bespoke design, personal provenance, unusual gemstones and pieces built to endure.
By Ali Galgano
Bernard Arnault delivers a speech during the opening ceremony at the VivaTech technology startups and innovation fair at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris on June 17, 2026.

LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault Says He Uses A.I. Weekly to Design Products

By Beth Duckett

How Instagram’s Favorite Luxury Bag Designer Is Surviving the Pandemic

By Sissi Cao
Indian style

Why India’s Star Is Rising in Luxury Markets

By Jeena Sharma
Robert Rauschenberg in 1968.

How Rauschenberg Elevated Tiffany’s Window Displays Into an Art Form

By Alanna Martinez
The Mateo New York jewelry line includes geometric designs and a delicate finish.

Mateo New York Gets Personal With a Downtown Jewelry Boutique

By Ashley Davis
This handbag kills recessions.

SL Green, Jeff Sutton Believe in the Luxury Consumer

By Tom Acitelli

Shorts Season Kick-Off! Resort Brand Signs on Madison

By Laura Kusisto

Jersey Louis Vuitton May Secede

By Observer Staff

Vornado Sues Italian Retailer Krizia Over Back Rent, Vacating Madison Ave Store

By Bonnie Kavoussi

Economic Slump Spanks Luxury Retailers

By Tom Acitelli
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