Conversations with operators, investors and executives across luxury goods.
Joe Parr spent forty years maintaining landscapes the world only sees in finished form, culminating as Senior Director of Horticulture at Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters. Now based in Tampa and no longer with the club, he took a call to talk about craft, career,...
Continuing the interview series, this conversation stays close to home, in every sense. Francisco Garcia is the Managing Director of The Maybourne Riviera, the clifftop hotel perched on Cap Martin between Monaco and the Italian border, and a place my wife and I keep finding...
Continuing the interview series, this conversation moves out of finance and into a corner of the luxury world I have always loved: rare books. Pom Harrington is the owner of Peter Harrington, the London rare book dealer his father started from a single shelf in a Chelsea...
Turney Duff's path to Wall Street was anything but traditional. He arrived in New York City in 1994 with a journalism degree from Ohio University, an LL Bean wardrobe, and a U-Haul painted with a giant Maine lobster. After striking out with magazines and PR firms, a phone call...
A former sales executive from one of the largest Ferrari dealerships in the United States discusses how Ferrari's allocation system actually works, why brand-new Ferraris are sitting unsold on dealer floors for the first time, the accelerating depreciation of hybrid models like...
I had a great conversation with a watch industry professional with 7+ years of experience spanning media, editorial, and the commercial side of the secondary market. The conversation covered LVMH’s watch division leadership changes, TAG Heuer’s impossible brand positioning...
Hublot: Inside the BrandA former Brand CEO of Hublot North America & Caribbean who left LVMH in July 2025 breaks down pricing strategy, cruise ship retail, the resale problem, and why the next chapter hinges on cracking the American consumer. This primary research interview...
I sat down with a former Brunello Cucinelli retail executive with over 20 years of luxury industry experience across Prada, Celine, Tiffany, and Cucinelli to understand how the quiet luxury business actually operates from the inside. This is the type of primary research that...
We recently sat down with a luxury industry consultant with direct experience in China's watch market, someone who worked at Rolex and advises on Chinese macro and geopolitical issues across the consumer and luxury sectors. The picture they paint is sobering for anyone modeling...
A former LVMH executive tells us what went wrong inside Tag Heuer, and why Bernard Arnault may be ready to let it go. There's a rumor circulating in Swiss watchmaking circles that LVMH wants to sell Tag Heuer. We sat down with a former senior LVMH watch executive, someone who...