The big story across the premium retail market for the past few years has been differentiation. Though much of the commentary has been about a luxury recession, many sectoral verticals (e.g., hospitality, jewellery, beauty) remained strong after the post-pandemic...
In our latest Fashion Strategy Weekly and FSW Markets essay, we review the role that narrative strategy should play in helping premium brands build resilience and reinforce global brand differentiation amid volatile market conditions -> https://lnkd.in/egK_gAvH...
The last few weeks have been a busy time assembling scenarios and revised forecasts for clients and partners. Everyone is naturally keen to understand how intermediate and final demand, input costs, and the macroeconomic environment generally may evolve and impact the...
The only certainty so far this year is persistent uncertainty. This is always true to a degree, but our clients report feeling the weight of the unknown more in their short-term and medium-term planning over the past three months than in the past few years since the...
Asset prices have recovered a fair amount of the ground they ceded after the launch of broad-based tariffs by the U.S. on April 2. However, a wave of optimism (justified or not) has swept through markets over the past couple of weeks on hopes that we are past peak...
