Bella Toscana: La natura può più dell’arte
N ature is beyond all teaching. Renowned for its art, history, and evocative landscape, Tuscany is a region where the past and present merge in pleasant harmony. Hill-towns gaze across the countryside from on high, many encircled by Etruscan walls and slender cypress...
Mount Rushmore: Presidential Profiles
Mount Rushmore: Presidential Profiles Mount Rushmore, located just north of Custer State Park in South Dakota’s Black Hills National Forest, was named for the New York lawyer Charles E. Rushmore, who traveled to the Black Hills in 1884 to inspect mining claims in the...
Thanksgiving 2017
For centuries we have come together on the third Thursday of November to celebrate autumn with the circle of our closest friends and family. In 1621, two distinct cultures laid the foundation of what has become the land we call “United”. By doing so, we have...
Will Pokémon Go help Retailers to new Heights?
News are filled with projections that Pokémon Go is a blessing for brick-and-mortar stores. But the real value of the underlying augmented reality technology is with their arch rival: Online retailer. Only the pre-digital generations will remember the original...
Department Store: Retailer or Realtor?
When Herman Bergdorf and Edwin Goodman, his apprentice, created the department store Bergdorf Goodman more than a century ago, they founded an enterprise – and a concept – that has become synonymous with luxury shopping. Since then, department stores around the world...
Modern Consumer: New Opportunity for Luxury
For decades, there was a clear formula for success in the luxury goods business: Offer well-made products at premium prices through a limited distribution network and reinvest a substantial part of the profits back into the brand, boosting consumer brand awareness and...
American Fashion Brands Face Strategic Consequences
Not so long ago, American fashion brands were riding the crest. Now, not so much. As recently as March 2012, the price of Coach common stock was at a historic high; outlet stores were opening at a rapid rate; and the company introduced a flash-sales e-commerce site...
Luxury Brands: Changing the Real Estate Landscape
The rise of e-tailing, the havoc caused by the recent Great Recession and the increased homogenization of the American shopping experience have generated an upheaval in the country’s real commercial real estate landscape. The upshot: increasingly, luxury brands are...