#LVMH Watch Week

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Zenith Chronomaster Sport Green (with live photos)

In the three years since its introduction, the Chronomaster Sport has made its mark and solidified its position as a leading contender among sporty chronographs. The heir to a long legacy of ZENITH chronographs that began prior to the game-changing El Primero’s launch in 1969, the Chronomaster Sport is the culmination point in the Manufacture’s pursuit of precision, performance and design. Now,…

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Bvlgari Unveils New Series of Watches at LVMH Watch Week 2024

Luxury watchmaker Bvlgari revealed a collection of watches at the recent LVMH Watch Week in Miami. The collection includes Bvlgari Bvlgari, Octo Finissimo Yellow Gold and more. Full story on GMT India - https://www.gmt-india.in/post/bvlgari-novelties-in-gold-steal-the-show-at-the-lvmh-watch-week-2024

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xiao zhan - mentioned by zenith ceo in an interview with LVMH Watch Week 🎤

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Lisa with her self-designed BULGARI X LISA watch at LVMH Watch Week in Miami

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On the occasion of LVMH Watch Week in Singapore, TAG Heuer revives the classic Monza in the form of a bold special edition sporting a 42 mm carbon case! The TAG Heuer Monza Flyback Chronometer features a skeletonized dial that reveals the Heuer 02 in-house automatic chronograph movement with flyback function, featuring an 80-hour power reserve and COSC chronometer certificate. 💰 USD 13,850 . Por ocasião da LVMH Watch Week, em Cingapura, a TAG Heuer revive o clássico Monza na forma de uma ousada edição especial com caixa de 42 mm em carbono! O TAG Heuer Monza Flyback Chronometer traz um mostrador esqueletizado que revela o movimento de cronógrafo automático com função flyback in-house Heuer 02, dotado de 80 horas de reserva de marcha e certificado de cronômetro COSC. 💰 USD 13.850 📷 @tagheuer • • #tagheuer #tagheuermonza #lvmhwatchweek #monza #monzachronograph #lvmhww2023 #sportwatch #finewatchmaking #relogioserelogios https://www.instagram.com/p/CnRnMt7O2kz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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What makes an American fashion brand a heritage brand? Tom Ford may have the answer…

This week, Tom Ford dropped his last collection for his eponymous brand. Dubbed the “Archive Collection”, the promotional spot for it (watch it here) saw models in select Tom Ford designs from the past 13 years preserved in a glass box, with Tom Ford himself directing them where to stand and how to walk from outside the box, on the street. At the end of the video, the models stand still up against the glass windows, as Ford walks down the street of his past. We might even say he's taking it all in: all these archival designs, his favorite designs, what we might even call, perhaps, “iconic” designs, given their places in the fashion cultural zeitgeist (the Jay-Z inspired jersey dress!).

If there was ever a visual metaphor for archiving a brand and designer’s past, and a timely rumination on the timelessness of design, and how fashion heritage is made, this is it. American fashion brands, despite their innovation and connections to American history, might often be seen as too commercial to be heritage brands in a European sense. At times historicization of commerce in the American fashion sector can even smack of pure marketing, and not even remotely as the heritage marketing that is so prevalent across the pond (Exhibit A: the brand Nicole Miller’s efforts around its 40th anniversary). But, despite their links to commerce and an almost perpetual assumption that more artistically-inclined brands should show in Paris (Exhibit B: Thom Browne then) American fashion brands are not only embracing fantasy, craftsmanship and history stateside (Exhibit C: Thom Browne now), but European luxury conglomerates are taking an increased interest in American brands with a heritage, applying their own brand of magic to make Tiffany’s the new Bulgari (Exhibit D: LVMH’s recently reopened “Landmark” Tiffany store- I could go on about connections to historic preservation...). So, what makes an American fashion brand a heritage brand, a brand which sees its history as a key part of its brand identity and makes that history a key part of its value proposition for its customers?

Tom Ford may be providing us with a blueprint. First, Ford is creating distance between himself and the brand. History, after all, is harder to create when there is no opportunity for distance and at least some objective appraisal. While Peter Hawkings, a “longtime colleague and collaborator” of Ford’s, will succeed him as Creative Director (and, one might think, in a style very Tom Ford- esque, Exhibit D: Hawkings’ glasses in the photograph accompanying the announcement), Hawkings is not Ford, and this passing of the torch still leaves an opportunity for appraisal, even as Ford continues in an advisory capacity. Second, while creating distance, Tom Ford the designer is identifying and pointing to the heart of his brand by choosing these re-issues, the Tom Ford icons, as it were. These designs, along with the Tom Ford trademark and signature TF logo, can serve as archival reference points, starting points for Hawkings as he creates Tom Ford 2.0. In the process, these icons can become part of the Tom Ford brand identity DNA and a central part of the brand’s heritage. When combined with the Tom Ford myth, celebrity connections and cultural moments, sex appeal and design aesthetic, distance from the founder and iconic designs might just make Tom Ford the American fashion brand an American heritage brand.

The law is also central to the success of the heritagization of Tom Ford. Who owns the actual archive of Tom Ford’s tangible designs and sketches? Depending on whether ownership remains with Tom Ford the designer or Tom Ford the brand, and, by extension, with its parent company Estée Lauder, distance may be more or less successful, and original icons more or less accessible. Strength of trademark rights in future designs by Hawkings for the Tom Ford brand, especially those that riff on icons, may hinge on access to the archive and the copying of past designs: consumers need to continue to recognize icons on the market as originating from Tom Ford the brand. Newer designs still need access to archival authenticity, especially to garner consumer buy-in and recognition when new designs move the reference points in the archive further from the original designs conceived by Tom Ford the designer.

Presentations of Tom Ford’s iconic designs as part of cultural heritage in museums and retrospectives can also increase the brand’s fame, commercial strength, and broader connections to cultural moments that ground the Tom Ford brand heritage as part of our cultural heritage. There is speculation that Tom Ford might be the next Karl Lagerfeld, with a retrospective at the Costume Institute. How museum exhibitions present the iconic designs of the Tom Ford era might shape the contours of the historicization of the Tom Ford brand and cement the contents of its brand DNA. But how the Tom Ford brand builds on museums’ presentations in its marketing campaigns and in the products placed on the market will be fundamental to the scope of any possible trademark rights in the re-issued and archival designs Tom Ford has chosen for his brand’s future. These individual choices made by Tom Ford 2.0 also need to walk a fine line between the past and present, timeliness and timelessness. And here we return to the Archival Collection promo spot. It’s all well and good to place designs behind glass, but the nature of fashion still requires that aura of heritage and the past to spill over into the present onto human bodies, as it does on Amber Valletta and other models in the video.

And, on this note, we might see more bodies enveloped in reissues from the Archive Collection on the Met Gala Red Carpet on Monday, providing some clues, and more answers, for the heritage trajectory of the Tom Ford brand post Tom Ford….  

References and Further Reading:

https://wwd.com/runway/fall-2023/new-york/tom-ford/review/

Heritage Marketing By Shashi Misiura

https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpac105

https://cardozoaelj.com/fashions-brand-heritage-cultural-heritage-and-the-piracy-paradox/

https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/guest-post-archival-authenticity-or.html

https://knowledge.essec.edu/en/video/heritage-brands-vs-brands-heritage.html

https://news.fitnyc.edu/event/fashion-culture-event-nicole-miller-in-conversation-with-valerie-steele/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/style/tom-ford-final-collection.html

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/luxury/peter-hawkings-named-creative-director-of-tom-ford/

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/luxury/peter-hawkings-named-creative-director-of-tom-ford/

https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/thom-browne-fall-2023-nyfw-review

https://www.tiffany.com/stories/the-landmark-fifth-avenue/

https://wwd.com/accessories-news/jewelry/tiffanys-fifth-ave-store-transformation-flagship-to-landmark-1235620166/

http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2504&context=jil

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It’s hard to believe it’s already been 60 years since the introduction of TAG Heuer’s Carrera, which was launched in 1963. Now, at the LVMH Watch Week, the brand is introducing a special limited edition: the Carrera Chronograph 60th Anniversary. Limited to a mere 600 pieces, the watch reinterprets the Carrera 2447 SN. With its panda dial and vintage logo, it’s certainly one for Heuer purists and fans of the enduringly popular model. Meanwhile, TAG Heuer’s new Monza Flyback Chronometer offers three functions that could be useful to a driver during a race. This includes a chronograph, a tachymeter scale that visualises the average speed over one kilometre with the indicator on the black inner ring, and a heart rate monitor, with an indicator calibrated to 15 beats per minute. —— LVMH Week 2023: TAG Heuer Highlights —— Head to Swisswatches Magazine to discover more. Link in bio. (at München Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnWqRwbIymk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A remodelação do CEO da LVMH pode ser a chave para maiores receitas a longo prazo?

CEOs da LVMH se reúnem para a LVMH Watch Week 2023 Agora você já deve ter ouvido falar de algumas mudanças radicais na Hublot, com Ricardo Guadalupe deixando o cargo de CEO para se tornar Presidente Honorário; Julien Tornare, CEO da TAG Heuer, assume como CEO da Hublot. Antoine Pin, gerente geral da Bvlgari Horlogerie, assume o cargo de CEO da TAG Heuer; nenhum anúncio foi feito sobre a vaga de…

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Nasdaq records worst day since 2022, UK100 lower

UK stocks were weaker on Wednesday, under pressure from disappointing US tech earnings which dragged Wall Street sharply lower.

Quarterly earnings from two ‘Magnificent Seven’ members, Google-owner Alphabet and electric vehicles maker Tesla, released after-hours on Tuesday, failed to impress markets.

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At the close in London, the blue-chip FTSE 100 was down 0.2% at 8,152, while the mid-cap FTSE 250 index shed 0.7% to 20,950, a near two-week low.

Among the blue-chip fallers, luxury goods firm Burberry shed 2.1% after France’s LVMH, the world's biggest luxury group saw its sales slow in the second quarter.

But on the upside, Reckitt Benckiser rose 1.9% as it announced a sweeping reorganisation that will see it dispose of ‘non-core’ brands such as Air Wick, Calgon, Cillit Bang and other non-core products from its home care range. The news came alongside first-half results that showed Reckitt’s net revenue fell 3.7%.

easyJet climbed 3.0% higher after the discount airline reported a 16% rise in third-quarter pretax profit.

Informa gained 3.7% as the blue-chip marketing firm agreed to buy Cannes Lions Festival owner Ascential for £1.2 billion. Ascential leaped 25.8% to top the FTSE 250 risers. And Aston Martin jumped 6.5% to record its best day in nearly two months after the mid-cap luxury carmaker reported better-than-expected half-year results.

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On the economics front, the S&P Global Flash Composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to a 29-month high of 52.7 in July, up from June's six-month low of 52.3, a shade higher than the 52.6 forecast. The service PMI activity index rose to 52.4 from 52.1, however, that was less than expected.

The data should still cheer the Bank of England (BoE) amid the possibility that the UK central bank could make a first interest rate cut soon after consumer price inflation pressures recently fell to their lowest level in more than three years.

The BoE will publish new inflation forecasts after its next policy meeting on August 1, but investors have scaled back bets that it will cut interest rates at the meeting after data last week showed services price inflation and wage growth remain high.

On currency markets, sterling gained versus the euro after the PMI data, up 0.1% at 1.1903, but the pound was flat against the US dollar at $1.2905.

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US inflation data will be watched on Friday to gauge the Federal Reserve's stance on interest rates as the central bank's September policy decision edges closer, with a cut predicted then by some forecasters.

The Bank of Canada on Wednesday trimmed its key interest rate by 25 basis points for the second month in a row, bringing them down to 4.5%, and it said more reductions in borrowing costs were likely if inflation continued to cool in line with forecasts.

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Global Market Update: Key Earnings Reports from Tesla, Alphabet, and Luxury Brands Amid Economic Uncertainties

As the global market navigates through a wave of volatility, traders are keenly awaiting pivotal earnings reports due after the market close from tech giants Tesla (NASDAQ) and Alphabet (NASDAQ), the first of the "Magnificent Seven" stocks to disclose their financial performance. Tesla's profit margins are anticipated to have declined, reflecting ongoing production and pricing challenges, while Alphabet is expected to post its fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth, underscoring its robust advertising business despite broader economic headwinds.

In a notable shift, Google has abandoned its plans to eliminate user-tracking cookies from its Chrome browser, a move that could have far-reaching implications for the digital advertising landscape.

Post-market attention will also be on Texas Instruments (NASDAQ) and Visa (NYSE), while major corporations like Coca-Cola (NYSE), General Electric (NYSE), General Motors (NYSE), and UPS are set to report their earnings before the trading day begins.

In Europe, investors will focus on Thales’ earnings in the Paris morning and Louis Vuitton's financial results later in the day, which are expected to provide insights into Chinese consumer demand. Despite a recent surge in luxury stocks following unexpected rate cuts in China, the sector remains under pressure due to a prolonged downturn in spending within the world's second-largest economy. This is further compounded by recent profit warnings from Burberry and Hugo Boss and a 27% drop in quarterly sales in Greater China reported by Richemont last week, dimming hopes for a stronger performance in the latter half of the year.

Asian markets saw a steadier session, buoyed by a rebound in chipmaker stocks on Wall Street.

On the economic front, key indicators to watch include Europe’s consumer confidence data, U.S. existing home sales figures, and the Richmond Fed manufacturing index.

The earnings reports from industry leaders such as LVMH, Thales, Coca-Cola, General Electric, General Motors, UPS, Tesla, and Google will play a crucial role in shaping market sentiment and guiding investor strategies in the coming days.

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Hublot’s continued dedication to crafting timepieces that transcend the ordinary embodies the brand’s ‘Be First, Unique, and Different philosophy.’ 

Let us delve into the realm of horological excellence and artistic innovation as Hublot unveils a tapestry of masterful timepieces and captivating collaborations.

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Bulgari at LVMH Watch Week 2024 - Beyond Time: Time Is Gold

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Revolutionary Watches Take the Luxury Market by Storm: TAG Heuer, Hublot, and Zenith Lead the Way! #globalsales. #HublotBigBangwatch #hybridwatches #innovativewatches #luxurytimepieces #luxurywatchindustry #luxurywatchmarket #LVMHluxurywatches #revolutionaryoscillator #sapphirecase #TAGHeuerCarrerachronograph #transparentwatchcase #WatchWeekMiami #wealthycollectors #ZenithDefyLabwatch

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Watches| Our Favorite Watches from LVMH Watch Week 2024 Showcase

The display of luxury through design is the ideology of one of the most renowned brands, LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton). This week, Miami is in full takeover for LVMH’s Watch Week 2024 showcase, as the brand invites the leading names in time tellers globally. Independent horologers like Daniel Roth and Gérald Genta join the stratosphere of notable names like Bulgari, Hublot, Tag Heuer and…

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One of @bulgari's main launches at #lvmhwatchweek was Divas' Dream Mosaica, inspired by mosaics from the Caracalla Baths in Rome. The fully set dial features a fan pattern with subtle sapphire gradients in pink or blue. With a 37 mm rose or white gold case, the model is equipped with the BVL 191 automatic manufacture movement. . Um dos principais lançamentos da @bulgari na LVMH Watch Week foi o Divas’ Dream Mosaica, inspirado nos mosaicos das Termas de Caracalla em Roma. O mostrador completamente cravejado traz um padrão em leque com sutis gradientes de safira em rosa ou azul. Com caixa de 37 mm em ouro rosa ou branco, o modelo é equipado com o movimento automático de manufatura BVL 191. 📷 @bulgari • • #bulgari #bulgaridivasdream #divasdreammosaica #jewelrywatch #ladieswatch #hautehorlogerie #finewatchmaking #relogioserelogios https://www.instagram.com/p/CnZxkohuMzy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=