Luxury watch manufacturer Richard Mille has just opened a lavish second boutique in Singapore, a key stronghold for the brand. Meanwhile, the group's pricey watches are at the centre of a money-laundering scandal that is rocking the city-state.
Veronica and Ilaria Bulgari - great-granddaughters of the founder of the Bulgari jewellery dynasty - have been at loggerheads for three years over the management of two trusts that belonged to their late mother, and that hold a total of nearly €130m.
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The Kering founder bought the 17th-century Hôtel de Cavoye in Paris from fellow French businessman Bernard Tapie's widow in 2021 and has since been restoring it to its original state. A modern garden, designed by Hermès's favourite landscape architect, is the only outlier in an otherwise conservative project.
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The LVMH-owned Italian brand made its lack of logo a defining feature, but Loro Piana is now facing a sharp rise in fakes on a major resale website.
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After staging a fashion show in the gardens of Versailles in June and hosting a dinner at the palace last week, Simon Porte Jacquemus's brand is poised to become a patron of one of France's most-visited historical monuments.
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After five years of legal proceedings, fashion designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista on 14 September lost his claim at the Paris Court of Appeal to have his employment contract with Lacoste reclassified. Baptista worked for the brand for eight years.
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The founder of French news channel BFM TV is to open a five-star hotel in Courchevel in 2025 that will be part of his luxury hotel chain, Lily of the Valley. Weill already operates a five-star hotel under that brand in La Croix-Valmer, by the Gulf of Saint-Tropez.
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Five-star hotels are in the French National Assembly's crosshairs. A group of MPs wants to raise the maximum tourist tax rate paid by hotel guests.
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