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The Business of Luxury

Insights, analysis and the business behind the world’s most desirable luxury brands—plus frameworks and AI prompts to build brands that command desire, trust and premium pricing. Every dispatch reveals one Luxury Move worth stealing 🍸

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How to sign High-End Clients... without a rebrand

Stop taking on misaligned clients "just this once." Learn how luxury brands use selective criteria and an unsexy "no" to attract better clients and strengthen positioning. Assouline Case Study inside.

How Luxury Brands Raise Their Prices Without Losing Customers

Why pricing feels personal, what luxury brands understand about pricing confidence, and the simple mechanism that makes higher prices feel inevitable. Plus, a cautionary tale from Chanel.

Traditional Marketing Sells Products. Luxury Brands Sell Desire. And Desire is Engineered.

The secret psychology behind the world's most desirable brands, decoded for personal brands. Read by 23,300 exceptional experts building Unignorable Luxury Brands.

What LVMH can teach you about building an Unignorable Luxury Brand

LVMH manages 18,000 intellectual property rights. Most founders are giving theirs away for free. Here’s how to find the most valuable assets in your business.

The founder lore secret Veuve Clicquot has been using for 200 years

Everyone's got a timeline and an about page. Nobody's got a founder myth. Yet...

Your Personal Brand needs a Creative Director (... and that's You)

The brands winning right now aren't being marketed. They're being directed. Tom Ford knew it in 1994. Most personal brands still haven't caught up.

Why Luxury Brands Are the Future of Personal Branding

Most personal brand advice was designed for commodity businesses. Here's what happens when you apply luxury psychology instead.

What Luxury Brands Understand About Social Media That Experts Are Still Figuring Out

The psychology behind why the algo treadmill wasn't built for what you're trying to build.

Your Buyers left Social Media. The Luxury Brands already knew where they were going.

If your marketing is built on social media and your buyers have migrated to depth – where do you build your business now?

What Luxury Travel Data tells us about how Buyers choose you

The wealthiest buyers didn't stop spending. They stopped being visible. The data shows exactly where they are now.

Logging off is the new luxury logo

The data just confirmed what you've been feeling about social media for years. WGSN called it. The HNWI data confirmed it. Here's what it means for your business...

The Obvious Choice isn't built with Traditional Marketing. It's engineered with Luxury Brand Psychology

Most personal brands aren’t lacking skill – they’re lacking status. Here’s what actually makes clients see you as the Obvious Choice.

What Loro Piana understands about Brand Signal that will change how you think about visibility

How a century of silence built the loudest luxury signal in the room. And how you can steal the strategy...

The Identity Economy is here. And most brands are still selling offers & services.

What Demna's Gucci debut reveals about desire... and the positioning mistake costing your brand its best clients

[PREMIUM AUDIO ESSAY] The Identity Platform: Engineering status infrastructure for your personal brand

Four steps to stop describing what you do and start holding the identity your clients have on their vision board.

If I started my Luxury Personal Brand again from scratch today...

I’d build a luxury personal brand rooted in standards, self-trust, and zero second guessing. This is your tactical blueprint for positioning yourself as the authority.

The future of luxury belongs to Very Important Clients

The luxury market has split in two. High-end clients haven’t disappeared – they're just filtering harder. Here's the trust architecture they're looking for (and how to build it).

Why the most influential experts never have opinions. They have something more powerful...

The difference between an "OMG, I'm hooked" rupture and a hot take (and why one creates luxury positioning while the other stops sales in their tracks)

It's 2026, Luxury has shifted from Products to Experiences... you should too. The Ned Case Study

Luxury used to be about what you owned. Now it's about how well you lived. So stop selling "deliverables" like it's 2018. Your clients don't want more stuff... they want to feel something.

When Everything Is a Dupe, Become the Standard

How luxury brands handle being copied at scale... and what it teaches you about becoming irreplaceable instead of interchangeable.