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The Growing Global Good Guy Brand Ralph Lauren Soars in Asia
Ralph Lauren Corp revenues for quarter ending Sept. 26, 2026 rose 9% to $2.2 billion, beating Wall Street estimates. Net income rose a staggering 43 percent to $296.6 million, or $4.87 a diluted share. Adjusted EPS hit $4.64, coming in 38 cents ahead of the $4.26 analysts forecast, according to WWD.
The Ralph Lauren performance in Asia is stunning. Checking for China only, Ralph Lauren’s quarter ended with a 35% increase, writes ‘Morning Star’.
AOC believes that in Asia, Ralph Lauren now paces itself in revenue comparable to — perhaps more than — the revenue of LVMH brand Christian Dior.
Rather than just reporting cold numbers, Anne of Carversville is turning a new and fresh lens on brands of similar revenues and scale globally. The success of Ralph Lauren in Asia is a growing threat to Dior in Asia. In fact, AOC sees Dior as caught in a three-way pincer with Chanel bearing down on Dior from the top and Ralph Lauren putting competitive pressure on Dior from the bottom up.
Loli Bahai covers the Special beauty issue of M, Le magazine du Monde [IG], out this weekend. M focuses on her “look that is both raw and classic, a delicate but androgynous face, an appearance as tender as butte.”
The Lyon born and raised daughter of a Spanish father and an Algerian mother, these days Bahai is a companion to singer Rosalía. Her M Magazine beauty story is styled by Alice Goddard and lensed by Tyler Mitchell [IG], with creative direction by Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet-Napoleone./ Hair by Claire Grech; makeup by Yadim
Last Week at Sotheby’s Paris, The Night Belonged to Claude Monet
The spirit of Claude Monet was far more important to Christian Dior than it is to Jonathan Anderson. A week ago in Paris, a little-known, never exhibited Monet painting called ‘Iris’ became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in France.
The nearly six-foot wide canvas the largest of the iris paintings to remain in private hands, which number about 20.
If only there was a way for Christian Dior Couture to ride that wave, the tie-in would have been terrific.
The Pharrell Williams, Mohari Hospitality and Omnam Investment Group Hotel in Paris
A powerhouse triad promises a new grand dame hotel in Paris. The restoration sits on prime Parisian real estate at 202 Rue de Rivioli.
Guests will be across the street from the Tuileries Gardens and close to The Louvre Museum and the Place Vendôme
Co-Creation at Golden Goose Is On the Move | So Is 'Less I, More Us'
Golden Goose differentiates itself in the global marketing universe, leading with action and real product, not only words. As a brand, it has always respected and tapped into a universal creative impulse of humans wanting to make things. ‘Golden Happens’ is a deeply personal message, within this reality and context.
Among creatives, there are varying degrees of an understanding that customers, clients and VICs increasingly act as the ultimate authentic intermediaries who reject the ‘empty words’ of corporate disruption, based on old models of the luxury brands business.
Today’s VICs are often traveling alongside us in their own minds. They want to experience synchronicity first hand, and not by reading fashion magazines or attending designer fashion shows.
The traditional concept of star designers and their — but usually HIS — muses is giving way to a much more creative and often democratic process that is horizontal and not vertical.
In the world of haute couture, VICs desire to know the makers, not only the designers. In the words of Maria Grazia Chiuri:
“Less I, More Us”
Chanel Years Ago Developed New Practices on Repurposing Unsold Products
A trial underway in Hong Kong’s High Court has indirectly drawn attention to how Chanel handles unsold and discontinued inventory on a seasonal basis. Court documents reveal details of Chanel Hong Kong’s once-routine destruction practices.
Yes, it’s staggering to read that the house reportedly destroyed between 10,000 and 20,000 discontinued Chanel products every six months as a matter of standard business operation.
This allegation is not fake news! But it’s old news and should be treated as such.
AOC has covered this topic extensively and is pulling from the archives to give us all a reality check on the facts. Generally-speaking, all the major luxury houses have stopped destroying unsold products.
Legislation went into effect in the European Union on July 19, 2026, that not only puts a legal stop to the destruction of luxury house products but requires all the major houses to file regular documentation on how they have handled the issue of unsold goods every year.
In late May, 2026 LOEWE creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, founders of New York-based Proenza Schouler, shared one of their first major high-profile, non-runway cultural projects since stepping into the helm of the LVMH-owned Spanish luxury house after Jonathan Anderson’s move to the creative director’s position at Dior.
This is the first time in LOEWE’s 180-year history that the brand is serving as an official tailor for a national sports federation. The initial four-year agreement with the Royal Spanish Football Federation secures LOEWE’s spot as the official off-pitch and travel wardrobe partner through 2030.
Chanel Praises Matthieu Blazy for Sparking the Charvet Marriage
Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion and president of Chanel SAS, put the success of Friday’s announcement that Chanel has acquired the heritage shirtmaker Charvet, squarely on the shoulders of Chanel artistic director Matthieu Blazy and the almost immediate rapport that Blazy kindled with siblings Anne-Marie and Jean-Claude Colban, who today run Charvet, bought by their father in the 1960s.
There’s major romance in this Chanel buys Charvet business story, spring-boarded by the intense love affair between Coco Chanel and Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel. As a stand-alone human relationship story between the couple, the facts are cinematic.
Like Anne before him, Matthieu Blazy knew nothing of this love story until he began going throughn the Chanel archives. Armed with the knowledge that Coco Chanel bought shirts for her lover Boy Capel at Charvet — and probably borrowed them regularly — Blazy decided to introduce himself to the famous shirtmaker, then owned by siblings Anne-Marie and Jean-Claude Colban.
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Carmen Kass is a technicolor goddess, styled by Txema Yeste in ‘Tuesday in Paris’ for the May issue of Interview Germany. Klaus Stockhausen chooses femme fatale ensembles for strong dramatic effects, enhanced brilliantly with multi-hued production techniques.
Ming Xi Wears Bold Style Lensed by Claus Wickrath for Numero China November 2011
