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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, and Maria Olives, the AVP of San Miguel Purefoods...
    Posted to Luxury Cult (Weblog) Posted by Radha Chadha on 02-20-2009
  • 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 it, gloats and claims victory – his “moral police...
    Posted to Luxury Cult (Weblog) Posted by Radha Chadha on 02-05-2009
  • 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 suggested that an artist is a brand, or rather...
    Posted to Luxury Cult (Weblog) Posted by Radha Chadha on 12-24-2008
  • 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 into the store, there was a similar buzz of people...
    Posted to Luxury Cult (Weblog) Posted by Radha Chadha on 12-17-2008
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