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Luxury Learnings from Japan's Recession

I was invited by the Harvard Business School to speak at their Asia Business Conference 2009 last weekend. I was on the Consumer and Retail panel - along with Ray Hatoyama, the COO of Sanrio which has made Hello Kitty a US$5 billion business globally...

Pubs, malls and “cultural colonization”

Every time I see the video of those poor women being bashed up at the pub in Mangalore, I cringe and duck. It plays over and over again on the Indian news channels, and each time I can feel the blows on my body. And then Mr. Muthalik, the politician behind...

Artists or Luxury Brands?

He almost fell off his chair and spilt his soup. It was an intimate dinner hosted by an auction house in Hong Kong, and I found myself seated next to one of their Asia region senior executives. We got talking…he does art, I do luxury brands, and I casually...

Cash is King

“Are you having a party?” I asked the Louis Vuitton salesman at Delhi’s new Emporio Mall. There were a dozen people standing alongside the cash counter near the entrance, happily chatting, each holding the brand’s signature brown shopping bag. Deeper...