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Genuio Took the Logo Tax Off Italian Shoes - Then Korean Feet Rewrote the Product
A former Italy-based fashion employee spent six months hearing no from factories, then raised roughly KRW 2.08 billion on two sneaker campaigns. The useful trick was not merely cutting out middlemen - it was letting Korean customers correct an Italian product.
The White T-Shirt That Wants to Put Dubai in Italian Wardrobes
Carter & White started with Giza cotton and a problem the Gulf knows intimately: how to make refinement feel comfortable in punishing heat. Its route from underwear to yacht linens and Riviera boutiques reveals a distinctly Dubai way of building a luxury house.
L’AGENCE Built a $100 Million Online Closet One Pair of Jeans at a Time
The Los Angeles label turned premium denim into a wardrobe system - then used wholesale reach, celebrity stylists and a fast-growing online store to move from one Melrose boutique to a global retail footprint.
When Brazil's Two Premium Fashion Rivals Decided to Share a Closet
Icomm Group merged OQVestir and Shop2gether into one company - then kept them competing on the same runway. Here is how Brazil's leading premium fashion e-commerce operator runs two storefronts, one warehouse, and a marketplace for the brands nobody else stocks.
Balenciaga
Balenciaga built a global business by making silhouette feel like news. Now, under Pierpaolo Piccioli, the house is testing whether couture craft can carry the same cultural charge as provocation.
LUISAVIAROMA
A Florentine shop born in 1929 became an early luxury e-commerce operator, then opened a 1,000-square-meter New York flagship. LUISAVIAROMA's real product is not simply fashion - it is the edit, wrapped in service, spectacle and global logistics.
David Gallon
David Gallon is a marketing executive who leads brand and integrated marketing for Tory Burch, the New York luxury fashion house. He joined the company in 2016 and rose through digital, social, and brand roles to Chief Marketing Officer, North America. His path runs from local TV newsrooms to teen retail at Aeropostale and into luxury fashion, giving him a storyteller's instinct for how a brand shows up across social, e-commerce, and physical stores.
Gian Luca Bersezio
Gian Luca Bersezio is the Chief Marketing Officer of Max Mara Fashion Group, the Italian luxury house behind Max Mara and Max&Co. A marketing and brand-communication leader with more than 15 years across global fashion and lifestyle brands, he built his reputation as director of global brand and communication at Timberland - where he led campaigns like the 50th-anniversary 'This Is Not A Boot' and high-profile collaborations - before moving into the Max Mara group. He is known for blending creative instinct with commercial strategy across brand positioning, campaigns, retail and omnichannel growth.
Jonathan Bottomley
Jonathan Bottomley is EVP and Global Chief Marketing Officer of Calvin Klein and, since May 2026, EVP of Group Consumer & Brand Strategy at parent company PVH Corp. Oxford-educated in modern languages, he spent roughly two decades in advertising - most notably eleven years at BBH London, where he rose to joint chief strategy officer and worked on Axe/Lynx, Google, Audi and Samsung - before crossing to the client side as Ralph Lauren's first-ever CMO in 2017 and later CMO of Boll & Branch. Since joining Calvin Klein in June 2022 he has rebuilt the brand's marketing around what he calls an 'entertainment mentality': casting talent with 'cultural velocity' rather than raw follower counts, and pairing archival brand DNA with modern CRM and first-party data. The results have been loud - the January 2024 Jeremy Allen White underwear campaign generated an estimated $74 million in media impact value and roughly 30% year-over-year growth in underwear sales the week it launched, followed by Bad Bunny in 2025 and Dakota Johnson in 2026.
Joon Silverstein
Joon Silverstein is the Chief Marketing Officer of Coach, the New York leather goods house inside Tapestry Inc., and the founder of Coachtopia, the circular sub-brand she launched in 2023 to build luxury products out of what the industry usually throws away. She trained first as a cultural anthropologist - a BA from Columbia, fieldwork as a Fulbright Fellow - then added an MBA from Harvard Business School and a stint at The Boston Consulting Group before leading change at Louis Vuitton and Victoria's Secret. She joined Coach in 2014 as SVP of Global Customer Experience and worked her way through digital, ecommerce, creative, sustainability and North America marketing before being elevated to CMO in January 2025. Her signature move is treating consumers as collaborators rather than targets: Coach's spring 2026 'Explore Your Story' campaign was co-created with Gen Z communities from the US to China, and the brand posted 25% revenue growth in fiscal Q2 2026 on the back of its strongest new-customer acquisition on record. She gave a TED Talk at TEDNext 2024 arguing that waste is a human invention, not a law of nature.
ANINE BING
ANINE BING is a Los Angeles-based global fashion house founded in 2012 by Danish designer Anine Bing and her husband Nicolai Bing. Built out of a Silver Lake garage and scaled through a highly engaged social-media audience, the brand pairs Scandinavian minimalism with American energy to make timeless wardrobe essentials - leather jackets, denim, knitwear, jewelry and accessories - sold direct-to-consumer online and through a growing network of global retail stores. Backed by Index Ventures, Greycroft and Felix Capital, ANINE BING has grown into a nine-figure business operating dozens of stores worldwide.
Catalyst
Catalyst is a Jakarta-based holding company that builds and operates luxury lifestyle e-commerce platforms in Indonesia. It is the company behind Jamtangan.com, the country's leading online-and-offline watch retailer launched in 2014, and voila.id, an Indonesian luxury multibrand fashion destination. Catalyst pairs these consumer brands with an in-house Growth & Tech team that engineers the storefronts, apps, logistics and marketing systems behind them, blending online retail with a growing network of physical flagship and offline stores.
Century 21 Stores
Century 21 Stores is a New York City off-price fashion retailer, founded in 1961, known for selling designer and luxury apparel, footwear, handbags and accessories at deep discounts. After filing for bankruptcy and closing all 13 locations in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Gindi family reacquired the brand and reopened its Financial District flagship at 22 Cortlandt Street in May 2023. Rebranded 'Century 21 NYC,' the retailer pairs its trademark 'treasure hunt' in-store experience with a growing e-commerce presence, live shopping and a TikTok Shop.
Christian Dior Couture
Christian Dior Couture is the Paris-based haute couture and luxury fashion maison founded in 1946 by Christian Dior. Owned by luxury group LVMH and led by Chairman and CEO Delphine Arnault, the house designs and retails haute couture, ready-to-wear, leather goods, footwear, jewelry, watches, fragrance and beauty through a global network of boutiques and e-commerce. Famous for the 1947 'New Look' that redefined post-war femininity, Dior remains one of the most recognized names in global luxury, blending French savoir-faire with contemporary creative direction now led by Jonathan Anderson.
Eleventy USA, LLC.
Eleventy USA is the North American arm of Eleventy, a Milan-based Italian luxury label founded in 2007 by Marco Baldassari and Paolo Zuntini. Built on a philosophy of 'Smart Luxury' - understated, logo-free clothing that blends traditional Italian tailoring with modern comfort - the brand sells men's and women's ready-to-wear, sportswear, shoes, leather goods, eyewear and accessories. Since establishing its New York headquarters in 2016, Eleventy USA has grown its stateside footprint to eight flagships and become a leading example of the 'quiet luxury' movement in America.
Lafayette 148 New York
Lafayette 148 New York is a privately held, vertically integrated luxury womenswear house founded in SoHo in 1996. Named for its original address at 148 Lafayette Street, the brand designs, produces, sells and fulfills clothing, footwear and accessories under one roof - from its Brooklyn Navy Yard headquarters to its owned atelier in Shantou, China. Known for intelligent, understated tailoring, luxurious fabrics and inclusive sizing across petite, missy and plus ranges, it serves professional and style-conscious women through its own boutiques, e-commerce site, AtelierDirect styling service and select luxury retailers.
Max Mara Fashion Group
Max Mara Fashion Group is a privately held, family-owned Italian luxury house founded in 1951 in Reggio Emilia by Achille Maramotti. Credited with helping create Italian pret-a-porter, the group turned industrial precision toward high-quality women's ready-to-wear, becoming best known for its camel coats and outerwear. Today it operates a portfolio of brands - including Max Mara, Sportmax, Weekend Max Mara, Marella, Pennyblack, iBlues, MAX&Co. and Marina Rinaldi - across roughly 100 countries with about 6,000 employees and around 2,300 stores, while remaining wholly controlled by the Maramotti family.
Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta is a New York luxury fashion house founded in 1965 by the Dominican-American couturier of the same name. Known for feminine, occasion-driven evening wear and bridal gowns rooted in European couture craftsmanship, the brand designs ready-to-wear, accessories, handbags, jewelry, fragrances and home goods. It has dressed first ladies, celebrities and society clients for six decades and today operates as a private, family-run business led by CEO Alex Bolen, selling through boutiques, department stores and its own e-commerce.
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren Corporation is an American luxury lifestyle company founded in 1967 by designer Ralph Lauren, who started by selling neckties under the Polo name. Today it is a global house of brands spanning apparel, footwear and accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality, selling an aspirational vision of timeless American style across roughly 24,000 employees and more than $8 billion in annual revenue. Known for its polo-player emblem and cinematic marketing, the company operates a direct-to-consumer, omnichannel model of retail stores, wholesale partnerships, digital commerce, and licensing that reaches customers in over 100 countries.
Tory Burch
Tory Burch is a New York-based luxury lifestyle brand founded in 2004 by designer Tory Burch. Blending preppy American sportswear with bohemian and eclectic details, it sells ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes, accessories, jewelry, fragrance, beauty, home decor and the Tory Sport activewear line through roughly 400 stores worldwide, wholesale partners and multi-language e-commerce. The privately held, family-run company generated an estimated $1.8 billion in retail sales in 2024. From the start the brand was built to fund a mission: the Tory Burch Foundation, launched in 2009, advances women's entrepreneurship through access to capital, education and a fellowship program.
Shaye Vercollone
Shaye Vercollone is a New York-based brand marketing leader who became Chief Marketing Officer of TWP, the womenswear label founded by Trish Wescoat Pound. She built a career at the sharp end of luxury fashion marketing, holding senior brand, communications, and social strategy roles at Helmut Lang and Theory before a run as an independent brand marketing consultant. Her work sits at the intersection of storytelling, social, and the quiet, menswear-inspired tailoring that defines TWP.
Marco Cattoretti
Marco Cattoretti is the Vice President of Global Sales at Naeem Khan, the New York luxury fashion house known for red-carpet gowns, embellished eveningwear and bridal couture. An Italian-trained lawyer turned fashion sales leader, he has spent his career building the commercial side of luxury brands, having previously served as President of Tuleh, Global VP of Sales at J Mendel and VP of Sales and Marketing at Romona Keveza. At Naeem Khan he helped launch, merchandise and distribute the bridal collection and is a regular presence at the brand's runway shows and trunk shows.
Liam McKessar
Liam McKessar is a fashion and lifestyle brand marketer who serves as Chief Marketing Officer at ANINE BING, the Los Angeles-based, Scandinavian-inspired label. An Australian who studied economics at the University of Sydney before crossing into fashion media, he has built brand and communications strategy for Vogue, Diane von Furstenberg, LoveShackFancy and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. He is known for blending editorial instinct with a commercial, omnichannel mindset - the kind of marketer who cares as much about how a customer is greeted in a fitting room as about the campaign that got them through the door.
Thomas De Stio
Thomas De Stio is the Chief Marketing Officer of Summit Golf Brands, the New York-based maker of premium golf apparel behind B. Draddy, Zero Restriction, Fairway & Greene, and EP New York. He arrived in August 2024 after more than a decade steering digital and ecommerce for luxury houses including Tom Ford, Loro Piana, Gucci, Tod's Group, and LoveShackFancy. His remit is to translate the codes of high fashion into the world of golf, running ecommerce and marketing strategy across the group's brand portfolio and reporting to president Jack Lessing.
Another Tomorrow
Another Tomorrow is a New York-based luxury fashion company building timeless womenswear with a sustainability-first model. Founded by former Morgan Stanley managing director Vanessa Barboni Hallik, it pairs farm-level material traceability with a digital ID on every garment, enabling provenance tracking, anti-counterfeiting, and authenticated resale. It was the first luxury fashion brand to earn B Corp certification and frames its work around human, animal, and environmental welfare.
Vanessa Barboni Hallik
Vanessa Barboni Hallik spent fifteen years trading foreign exchange and emerging markets at Morgan Stanley, rose to Managing Director, then walked away to build Another Tomorrow, a B Corp certified luxury label that treats clothing as an asset. Every garment carries a digital ID tracing it from farm to closet and back into an authenticated resale program. She launched the brand six weeks before COVID-19 shut down the world and kept building.
Karla Gallardo
Karla Gallardo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cuyana, a San Francisco-based sustainable fashion brand built on the philosophy of 'fewer, better things.' Born in Ecuador and educated at Brown University and Stanford GSB, she co-founded Cuyana in 2011 with Shilpa Shah to create timeless, high-quality women's essentials through ethical, transparent supply chains. Under her leadership, Cuyana has grown to 160+ employees, raised $44.8M in funding (including a $30M Series C), and built a loyal customer base that includes Meghan Markle and Jessica Alba. The company achieves a remarkable 90% full-price sell-through rate — rare in fashion — and has been recognized for pioneering sustainable luxury retail in the U.S.
Shilpa Shah
Shilpa Shah is the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of Cuyana, the San Francisco-based sustainable luxury fashion brand built around two words: fewer, better. A UC Berkeley-trained UX designer who spent a decade building interfaces for Disney, AT&T, and Sun Microsystems before pivoting to business school at 32 — pregnant during her first semester — Shah co-founded Cuyana in 2011 with Karla Gallardo. The company has grown into a cult-favorite direct-to-consumer brand with 7 retail locations, 150+ employees, celebrity fans including Jessica Alba and Ayesha Curry, and $30 million in Series C funding from H.I.G. Capital. At Cuyana, Shah is the architect of the customer experience, championing quality over quantity in an industry obsessed with the opposite.