About a year ago,  I posted an article entitled, Fashion 2.0: What the Future Holds, laying out some thoughts (and questions) on the future of luxury and fashion online.  Since then, Fashion 2.0 has been one of  the most discussed topics on The Business of Fashion, and the ensuing debate has been thought-provoking, largely due [...]

Kellogg, the prestigious school of management at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago, has announced plans for a business course on fashion — or at least, how fashion can play a role in industries as varied as fast-moving consumer goods to consumer electronics and home computers. ESSEC, the French business school, has an entire MBA program [...]

Bolstered by a string of well-received collections in recent seasons, positive feedback from the sales floor, and her newly profitable status, Stella McCartney is setting her sights on Asia. 
In 2007, the brand signed an exclusive distribution deal with the Lane
Crawford Joyce Group to open 10 freestanding stores in China, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Thailand, [...]

Just digest these figures for a moment:

Coach’s online business now has revenues of over $100m per year — the same as what Gucci’s new flagship on 5th Avenue is expected to sell.  Neiman Marcus has broken the $500m in sales barrier online.
In the last year alone, wealthy consumers’ use of social networks such [...]