The Luxury Strategy

Discover the secrets to successful luxury brand management with this bestselling guide written by two of the world's leading experts on luxury branding, Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien, providing a unique blueprint for luxury brands and companies. Having established itself as the definitive work on the essence of a luxury brand strategy, this book defines the differences between premium and luxury brands and products, analyzing the nature of true luxury brands and turning established marketing 'rules' upside-down. Written by two world experts on luxury branding, The Luxury Strategy provides the first rigorous blueprint for the effective management of luxury brands and companies at the highest level, making it the perfect guide for senior executives in the luxury and branding markets as well as students studying luxury marketing and luxury brand management. This updated and revised third edition of The Luxury Strategy explores the diversity of meanings of 'luxury' across different markets. It rationalizes those business models that have achieved profitability and unveils the original methods that were used to transform small family businesses such as Ferrari, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Armani, Gucci and Ralph Lauren into profitable global brands. Now updated with coverage of the luxification of society, the impact of artificial intelligence on the sector as well as other technologies such as the metaverse, the idea of exemplar luxury, and the relevance of luxury brands outside of the luxury market, this book has truly cemented its position as the authority on luxury strategy.