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French designer Hervé Pierre.© Studio Pachamama

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Hervé Pierre, Melania Trump's French stylist, plays political balancing act

Hervé Pierre has worked with several US first ladies over the course of his career, without ever showing a preference for one political camp or the other. But the French designer has moved closer to the Republican clan since his first collaboration with Melania Trump in 2017. As, arguably, have many luxury brands.

Subscribers only United States 16.01.2025

The other Libyan affair worrying Paris's Golden Triangle

Just as former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is being tried over allegations that he took money from Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 presidential election campaign, another affair involving the Gaddafi regime is complicating property dealings in the Golden Triangle, home of the Parisian luxury goods business.

Subscribers only France 16.01.2025

Champs-Elysées reigns supreme in luxury brands' Christmas lights spending spree

The Champs-Élysées, Avenue Montaigne, Faubourg Saint-Honoré… Glitz.paris has obtained the accounts of each of the committees set up to represent the luxury sector's interests in these three key Parisian thoroughfares and, notably, to organise the Christmas lights there.

Subscribers only France 09.01.2025

French fashion firms look set to impose their concept of environmental labelling

The French government and the country's fashion industry are negotiating on the rules for labelling the environmental impact of clothing. But the brands have already succeeded in imposing their conception of sustainability.

Subscribers only France 09.01.2025

France poised to tax second-hand luxury watches like jewellery

In the midst of a slowdown in the high-end watch market, a court ruling, which is likely to set a precedent, has sounded the alarm bell for retailers of fine pre-owned timepieces: the purchase of models from private individuals is now due to be taxed in the same way as jewellery or precious metals.

Subscribers only France 09.01.2025

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Fairly Made, providers of eco-responsible virtue solutions

The start-up founded by Laure Betsch and Camille Le Gal offers a range of complete solutions to help its customers comply with the growing body of environmental legislation - which it helped draw up.

Subscribers only Entourage 19.12.2024

Camille Le Gal and Laure Betsch, co-founders of the start-up Fairly Made.

Without Chanel support, France's only diamond laboratory disappears

The Diam Concept synthetic diamond company, faced with international competition and prevarication by jewellery houses, has just been wound up. Chanel had backed it for a while but in the end pulled the plug on the struggling firm.

Subscribers only Entourage 19.12.2024

Van Cleef's creative agency Carré Basset lays off staff

Paris-based creative agency Carré Basset is to make a number of redundancies. The agency has collaborated with a string of leading luxury brands over the past 30 years, including Coty, Audemars Piguet, Diptyque, and Van Cleef & Arpels.

Subscribers only Entourage 19.12.2024

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Diet Prada founders switch to rich diet

The Instagram account Diet Prada was launched in 2014 by Tony Liu and Lindsey Schuyler and initially focused on exposing plagiarism in the fashion world. But it has put aside its activism, which some critics deemed selective, and now works with the big firms it once lambasted.

Subscribers only Entourage 12.12.2024

The Diet Prada account was launched in 2014 by Lindsey Schuyler and Tony Liu.

Allies in Saint-Tropez, Stéphane Courbit and Bernard Arnault become luxury rivals in the Luberon

As Glitz.paris first reported, luxury hotel group Les Domaines de Fontenille's opening up of capital will see LVMH become a shareholder. The deal puts the luxury giant in direct competition with Les Airelles' hotel in the Luberon, even as LVMH collaborates with its owner Stéphane Courbit in Saint-Tropez and Venice.

Subscribers only Entourage 12.12.2024

Texas becomes gateway for fake Goyard and Prada merchandise entering America

The southern US state has acquired the dubious distinction of being a hub for counterfeit luxury goods coming into the country, causing increasing headaches for both the customs authorities and second-hand platforms doing business there.

Subscribers only Entourage 12.12.2024

Excelsior Hotel Gallia opens roof terrace war in Milan

The Excelsior Hotel Gallia will be renovating its roof terrace at great expense from January onwards. The aim is to compete with rival establishments in Italy's fashion capital that have recently moved into more prestigious areas.

Free access Entourage 12.12.2024

LVMH project for exclusive Courchevel ski suites snowed under by legal complaints

The French luxury giant's most select hotel project has been delayed for the past four years by a string of complaints filed by a neighbouring establishment in the ski resort.

Subscribers only Entourage 05.12.2024

French budget puts 'living heritage' label at risk

A proposed dramatic cut to government funding to manage the label so dear to the luxury sector has led to an outcry from the companies concerned. But their rescue bid is now threatened by the budget's own uncertainties.

Subscribers only Entourage 05.12.2024

Luxury streetwear platform GOAT penalised for misleading customers

The US Federal Trade Commission recently found the leading American trainer company, which for two years was a major sponsor of the Paris Saint-Germain football club, guilty of misrepresenting its after-sales services.

Subscribers only Entourage 05.12.2024

Paris boutique vacated by Stella McCartney in 2020 finally finds new tenants

More than four years after financial troubles prompted the English designer to abandon her illustrious retail premises along the Palais Royal gardens, two brands owned by Italy's AMF group are set to move in to the arcade, where rents are sky-high and profits far from guaranteed.

Subscribers only Entourage 28.11.2024

Monogram mobilises its networks to restore its image

The luxury second-hand specialist's image has been tarnished by a number of legal and reputational setbacks. Monogram is now calling on its associates and partners to help it get past those woes.

Subscribers only Entourage 28.11.2024

Floriane de Saint Pierre winds up UK subsidiary under investigation by French tax authorities

The headhunter's British firm is in liquidation. In 2021, Floriane de Saint Pierre was accused of using the company to avoid paying taxes in France.

Subscribers only Entourage 28.11.2024

Cosmetics lobby urges French MPs to revive luxury sector working group

French lawmakers have yet to find time to reactivate the parliamentary friendship and working groups dissolved along with the lower-house National Assembly on 9 June.

Subscribers only Entourage 28.11.2024

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Ruben Cohen, influencer of influencers

As the luxury sector navigates a period of crisis, the influence and communications agency Follow is experiencing unprecedented growth. Co-founded by Ruben Cohen, the firm helps luxury brands target Gen Z consumers with the help of influencers - a service that requires total commitment from the agency's employees.

Subscribers only Entourage 21.11.2024

Ruben Cohen, co-founder of influence and PR agency Follow Group.

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Front Row
Hervé Pierre, Melania Trump's French stylist, plays political balancing act

The other Libyan affair worrying Paris's Golden Triangle

Champs-Elysées reigns supreme in luxury brands' Christmas lights spending spree

French fashion firms look set to impose their concept of environmental labelling

France poised to tax second-hand luxury watches like jewellery

Front Row
Fairly Made, providers of eco-responsible virtue solutions

Without Chanel support, France's only diamond laboratory disappears

Van Cleef's creative agency Carré Basset lays off staff

Front Row
Diet Prada founders switch to rich diet

Allies in Saint-Tropez, Stéphane Courbit and Bernard Arnault become luxury rivals in the Luberon

Texas becomes gateway for fake Goyard and Prada merchandise entering America

Excelsior Hotel Gallia opens roof terrace war in Milan

LVMH project for exclusive Courchevel ski suites snowed under by legal complaints

French budget puts 'living heritage' label at risk

Luxury streetwear platform GOAT penalised for misleading customers

Paris boutique vacated by Stella McCartney in 2020 finally finds new tenants

Monogram mobilises its networks to restore its image

Floriane de Saint Pierre winds up UK subsidiary under investigation by French tax authorities

Cosmetics lobby urges French MPs to revive luxury sector working group

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Ruben Cohen, influencer of influencers

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Entourage

Front Row Hervé Pierre, Melania Trump's French stylist, plays political balancing act

The other Libyan affair worrying Paris's Golden Triangle

Champs-Elysées reigns supreme in luxury brands' Christmas lights spending spree

French fashion firms look set to impose their concept of environmental labelling

France poised to tax second-hand luxury watches like jewellery

Front Row Fairly Made, providers of eco-responsible virtue solutions

Without Chanel support, France's only diamond laboratory disappears

Van Cleef's creative agency Carré Basset lays off staff

Front Row Diet Prada founders switch to rich diet

Allies in Saint-Tropez, Stéphane Courbit and Bernard Arnault become luxury rivals in the Luberon

Texas becomes gateway for fake Goyard and Prada merchandise entering America

Excelsior Hotel Gallia opens roof terrace war in Milan

LVMH project for exclusive Courchevel ski suites snowed under by legal complaints

French budget puts 'living heritage' label at risk

Luxury streetwear platform GOAT penalised for misleading customers

Paris boutique vacated by Stella McCartney in 2020 finally finds new tenants

Monogram mobilises its networks to restore its image

Floriane de Saint Pierre winds up UK subsidiary under investigation by French tax authorities

Cosmetics lobby urges French MPs to revive luxury sector working group

Front Row Ruben Cohen, influencer of influencers

About Glitz

Subscription

Glitz on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Front Row
Hervé Pierre, Melania Trump's French stylist, plays political balancing act

Front Row
Fairly Made, providers of eco-responsible virtue solutions

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Diet Prada founders switch to rich diet

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Ruben Cohen, influencer of influencers