by Editorial Team | Jul 31, 2026 | Luxury Brands
India has never lacked craft. It has lacked brands that turn craft into meaning the market will pay a premium to own. Two houses show how it’s done — and Forbes India recently asked me why. The question Forbes put to me For its July anniversary issue, Forbes...
by Editorial Team | Jul 27, 2026 | Sustainability
Morality has become a value driver in luxury. Very few houses can say what is actually standing behind theirs. Morality became a price driver Something shifted in luxury over the past three years. Provenance, labour conditions, environmental impact and philanthropy...
by Editorial Team | Jul 21, 2026 | Insights
The Capability Gap: India Has the Client. India Has the Craft. The Missing Layer Sits Between Them. India is no longer waiting for a luxury consumer to arrive. He has arrived. The question is whether anyone is built to serve him. The client has matured For years the...
by Editorial Team | Jul 14, 2026 | Insights, Luxury Markets
The question every global luxury house asks about India is the same: which city, after Mumbai and Delhi? The industry defaults to Bengaluru. The data points to Hyderabad. Not because Hyderabad is more visible. Because the gap between what its luxury market demands and...
by Editorial Team | Jul 7, 2026 | Insights, Luxury Markets
The Bain-Altagamma 2026 luxury study identifies AI as one of four forces disrupting luxury go-to-customer funnels. A white paper releasing this week provides the framework for understanding which brands will use that disruption to deepen mythology — and which will be...
by Editorial Team | Jun 30, 2026 | Insights, Luxury Coaching
India’s premiumisation wave is real, well-documented, and generating genuine opportunity across categories. But every premiumisation wave in every market eventually normalises. The brands that survive normalisation are not those that rode the wave best. They are...
by Editorial Team | Jun 23, 2026 | Insights, Luxury Brands
Eight weeks of content have made the case for why luxury founders need mythology discipline, architecture clarity, and the capability to refuse. This piece answers the question that follows naturally: what does building that capability actually look like in practice?...
by Editorial Team | Jun 16, 2026 | Insights, Luxury Brands
Most luxury brands do not fail because of bad products. They fail because the founder never answered three questions that defined the brand’s architecture before the commercial pressure arrived. By the time the pressure comes — and it always comes — the answers...
by Editorial Team | Jun 9, 2026 | Insights, Luxury Brands
Ferrari, Jaguar, and the Mythology Mistake the Luxury Industry Keeps Making The luxury industry is having the wrong conversation about Ferrari. Since the Luce was unveiled in Rome on 25 May, the debate has centred on design — whether Jony Ive’s interpretation of...
by Editorial Team | Jun 2, 2026 | Insights, Luxury Brands
Whichever way you take it, the Audemars Piguet X Swatch collaboration is bringing questions of myth and proximity into focus. For decades, luxury was built on distance. The world’s great maisons mastered not just craftsmanship, but controlled inaccessibility. Waiting...
