Zoe Suen

3 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Zoe Suen

The French travel retailer, which counts Bottega Veneta, Gucci and Tiffany among its brand partners, saw annual revenue decline 59.7 percent on a consolidated basis to 1.72 billion euro (around $2 billion) last year as the pandemic halted international travel, the Moodie Davitt Report writes. While the company’s divisions in countries like France and North America reported contractions of over 59 percent respectively, China’s domestic travel rebound boosted revenues by 18.2 percent over the year.

3 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Zoe Suen

That the pandemic has changed the way Chinese buy luxury is indisputable. Shoppers in the world’s largest market for high-end goods went from making around 60 percent of their luxury purchases abroad to making nearly 100 percent of them at home, with online channels receiving a major boost.

2 months ago | scmp.com | Zoe Suen

For thousands of years, gourmands have sought out truffles – considered a food of the gods – for their rich fragrance and woody flavour. Culinary use of the ingredient, which is technically the fruiting body of subterranean fungi, was documented in ancient Roman texts by Pliny the Elder, it was beloved by the Etruscans before that. Centuries later during the Renaissance, Italian noblewoman turned French queen Catherine de’ Medici brought the white truffle to the French court.

2 months ago | ft.com | Sara Semic |Zoe Suen

For the modern minimalist bride Danielle Frankel Few brides-to-be can go about their shopping without encountering – through TikTok,...

2 months ago | wmagazine.com | Zoe Suen

In 2018, Rocío Gallar and Jorge Ros started tinkering with jewelry design at a craft workshop near their home in Valencia, Spain. The couple—who worked in communications and furniture design, respectively—considered it a hobby. “We felt like kids after work, going there in our free time,” says Ros. But their signature style—organic textures and chunky sculptural forms—proved so popular that they turned it into a brand.