Luxury Industry - Research Roadmap
-- Dedicated to organizing information in the luxury industry. --
A-Z Brands Indices:
The Luxury Closet - Index of Designers
The Real Real - Fashion Designers Index
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Awards
Belle Luxury Home Building Awards
Cars.com - Luxury Car of the Year
Hideaway Report - Grand Awards
Institute for Luxury Home Marketing - Marketing Awards
La Centre du Luxe et la Creation - Talent Awards
Luxury Travel Advisors - Ultra Summit
Luxury Venture Day - Luxury Innovation Award
Professional Jeweller - Multiple Luxury Jewellery Retailer of the Year
Seven Stars Luxury Hospitality and Lifestyle Awards
World Luxury Restaurant Awards
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Blogs
The blogs listed here are oriented toward a business audience.
Anita Khatri Luxury Consulting - Blog
Euromonitor - Luxury Goods Blog
International Luxury Consulting - Blog
Luxury Consulting Online - Blog
Consulting Firms ***
Agility Research & Strategy (Singapore)
Anita Khatri Luxury Consulting (Mumbai, India)
Baker McKenzie (Chicago) (legal focus)
Barri Luxury Consulting (New York)
Boston Consulting Group (Boston)
China Luxury Advisors (California)
Christine Ellis Associates (Milan)
CPP Luxury Industry Management Consultants (Bucharest, Romania)
Daxue Consulting (Beijing, China)
Eurogroup Consulting - Luxury Division (France)
Gillan Luxury Consulting (London)
Giovanelli Consulting (New York)
International Luxury Management Consultants (Milan, Italy)
Karen Harvey Consulting Group (New York)
Luxury Brand Partners (Miami, Florida)
Luxury Business Institute (Korea)
The Luxury Consulting Company (Paris)
Luxury Consulting Online (Switzerland)
The Luxury Institute (New York)
Luxury Retail Consultants (Chicago. Illinois)
Mindful Luxury (Charlotte, North Carolina)
OC&C Strategy Consultants (London)
Officina Lifestyle (Switzerland)
Pascal Portanier Luxury Consulting (France)
Robert Burke Associates (New York)
Roxy Genier (Montreal, Canada)
SageBerry Consulting (Dallas, Texas)
Timmint Luxury Consulting (Lebanon)
Influencers - Agencies & Ambassador Programs
Influencer Agencies:
M&A Advisory Firms
Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg (Chicago)
Cavendish Corporate Finance (London)
Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York)
Gereje Corporate Finance (Paris)
Morrison & Foerster (San Franisco)
Vendome Global Partners (New York)
Also see the Luxury Industry M&A Tracker on this site.
Market Size/Share Resources
Bain & Company - Luxury Goods Worldwide Market Study
Deloitte - Global Powers of Luxury Goods 2019
McKinsey & Company - China Luxury Report 2019
Zion Market Research - Hard Luxury Goods Market...
Marketplaces (E-commerce Portals)
Alibaba Luxury Pavilion at Tmall
Professional / Networking Associations & Student Clubs
Association of Luxury Suite Directors
BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) - Responsible Luxury Initiative
European Cultural Creative Industries Alliance (ECCIA)
Harvard Business School - The Retail and Luxury Goods Club (student club)
The International Luxury Business Association
Luxury Institute - Global Luxury Expert Network (GLEN)
The Luxury Marketing Council of San Francisco
The Luxury Network Los Angeles
University of Michigan - Ross School of Business - The Retail and Luxury Goods Club (student club)
University of Warwick - Luxury & Innovation Hub
Research Entities / Publishing Houses
American Affluence Research Center
Baker McKenzie - Global Legal Guide for Luxury & Fashion Companies
Capgemini - The Wealth Reports
Coldwell Banker - Luxury Report
Ernst & Young - The luxury and cosmetics financial factbook
Institute for Luxury Home Marketing
Lexis Ricerche (Lexis Research)
Luxury Branding Research Centre
Savills (Assorted Research Reports)
Unity Marketing (in partnership with Luxury Daily) - "State of Luxury 2018"
University of Southhampton - Winchester Luxury Research Group
Advertising & Marketing & Creative Agencies:
Agence:Luxe
Agency in Pursuit (New York)
Agency Love (New York)
Black Label Branding (Miami, Florida)
Brand & Co. (Sydney, Australia)
Digital Luxury Group (Geneva, Switzerland)
ENVISIONWORKS (Miami, Florida)
KODA Agency (Gilbert, Arizona)
Lanza Studio (Greater New York area)
Lombardo & Partners (West Palm Beach, Florida)
Luxury Branded (Victoria, British Columbia)
MDG Advertising (Boca Raton, Florida)
Optimist Consulting (New York)
Qualia Creative (Melbourne, Australia)
Select World (Hamburg, Germany)
Smile Agency (New South Wales, Australia)
Strategic Vision (Tarrytown, NY)
Sugarfly Marketing (San Francisco)
Unity Marketing (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
Wednesday Agency Group (New York)
(Note that many of the agencies listed here also do strategic consulting and other services.)
Conferences
AREAA - Global + Luxury Summit
BOLD - Business of Luxury Design Conference
Columbia Business School - Annual Retail & Luxury Goods Conference
Harvard Business School - The Retail and Luxury Goods Club Annual Conference
The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing - Leaders in Luxury
IPOL - In Pursuit of Luxury Conference
London Business School - Retail & Luxury Goods Conference
Luxury Hotel Association - Inspire Summit
The Luxury Research Conference
Market Research Society - Luxury Research Conference
The New York Times International Luxury Conference
NYU Stern - Luxury & Retail Conference
PowerHouse SMART - Luxury Conference
Women in Luxury
Directories & Databases
Biography Databases/Directories:
The Business of Fashion - BoF 500
- Search brief biographies of major luxury fashion designers at this resource. Filters include nationality and role.
- Although this is a general encyclopedia, it contains substantive biographical overviews of major luxury founders and designers. Historic figures like Coco Chanel to newer designers like Christian Louboutin have entries in this resource.
Company Databases/Directories:
Craft.co - Luxury Sector Filter
- Craft.co is one of the few general business directories that offers a filter/tag for luxury companies. This landing page lists hundreds of luxury companies, further filterable by industry, location, employee size and public/private status.
Euromonitor - Passport Luxury Goods Global
- Paid subscription database
Upmarkit - High-End Brand Directory
- This free database is browsable by product category, country, metropolitan area and brand/company name.
- Offers a subscription database that contains data on luxury companies, including financial, retail and marketing information.
- This paid subscription resource includes profiles on hundreds of luxury brands and data from thousands of interviews of affluent customers.
- This competitive intelligence solution tracks data on the high end watches industry.
-This paid subscription platform offers millions of data points on profiles of customer types for prospect propensity.
- Subscription resource that covers color and trend forecasting within the luxury/fashion industry.
Education & Degrees & Training
Birmingham City University - Luxury Brand Management Masters
Business of Fashion - Educational Resources
Curtin University - Master of Luxury Branding (Australia)
EMLYON Business School - MSc in Luxury Management & Marketing (France)
ESSEC - Luxury Brand Management Executive Program
Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie
Glion - Luxury Brand Management in Hospitality Program (Switzerland)
IMD - Reinventing Luxury Course
INSEEC U. - Luxury Attitude Academy
- Claims to offer the world's first career certification in luxury.
Institut Francais de la MODE (Paris)
- Offers Master's degrees and special programs
Institute for Luxury Home Marketing
International University of Monaco - M.S. in Luxury Management
IPAG/Seminole State College of Florida - MBA in Luxury Brand Management
LISAA - Master in Fashion & Luxury Management (Paris)
North Carolina State U. - Global Luxury and Management Program
NYU Stern - MBA in Fashion and Luxury
Regent's University London - Master in Luxury Brand Management
Rennes School of Business - Master in International Luxury and Brand Management (France)
SDA Bocconi School of Management - Executive Master in Luxury Management (Italy)
SKEMA Business School - Double Master's in Global Luxury and Management (Paris)
SP Jain School of Global Management - Master in Global Luxury Management (India)
Universita de Bologna - MBA Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods
University of Southampton - Winchester School of Art (UK)
University of St.Gallen - Competence Center for Luxury Management (Switzerland)
News / Periodicals
The Business of Fashion - News
The Luxury Conversation (China focused)
Skift New Luxury Newsletter (luxury travel)
Recruiters
Aherne Executive Search (New York)
AIMS International (Vienna, Austria)
Alliance Recruitment Agency (India)
BOND Creative Search (New York)
Floriane de Saint Pierre & Associes (Paris)
Four Seasons Recruitment (London)
Karen Harvey Consulting Group (New York)
Kingsley Consulting (Sydney, Australia)
Lordstone Corporation (Fort Myers, Florida)
Lutz & Partners (Geneva, Switzerland)
Melanie Andersen Agency (New York)
Millman Search Group (Maryland)
PowerHouse Recruiting (Chicago)
Sterling International (Paris)
Stones International (Hong Kong)
Scholarly Journals
Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (Taylor & Francis Publishers)
Luxury Research Journal (Inderscience Publishers)
Subscription-based Companies/Services
Sustainability - Industry Efforts
BSR - Sustainable Luxury Working Group
Fashion Pact (led by Kehring at the G7 meeting in 2019)
Luxiders (a sustainability in luxury magazine)
Positive Luxury (company that provides special marks and awards for sustainable luxury products)
Virgo (authentication and sustainability tool for luxury products)
Walpole - British Luxury Sustainability Manifesto
Also see the "Luxury Industry Sustainability Tracker" on this website to see the sustainability status and progress of individual luxury companies.
Trends Resources
Luxury Institute - 2020 Luxury Trends
Luxe Digital - The Future of Luxury: Trends to Stay Ahead in 2020
Bain & Company - Luxury After COVID-19
Venture Capital Firms that Invest in Luxury Startups
Fashion Capital Partners (Paris)
Imaginary Ventures (London and New York)
The Luxury Fund Management (Beirut, Lebanon)
Luxury Venture Group (Switzerland)
The above categories included: luxury consultants, luxury recruiters, luxury advertising agencies, luxury marketing agencies, luxury education, luxury awards, luxury blogs, luxury conferences, luxury marketplaces. luxury databases, luxury directories, luxury industry sustainability efforts, luxury venture capital firms and luxury subscription services, just to name a few. We also maintain a Luxury Industry M&A Tracker on the site. We will keep building our categories of information in the luxury industry, and we will take suggestions to add others.
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