The fashion industry gains new capital, but loses control over its own symbolic order. What looks like sponsorship shifts the question of who still gets to confer cultural status.
Great names do not disappear with their creators. As brands and companies, they endure and often reach their most profitable phase only afterward. Yet it is in this phase that the loss of what once...
The myth is fading. Once a synonym for flamboyance and commercial triumph, Gucci now finds itself in a deeper crisis than any of its major rivals. The era of endless growth is over — and with it the...