Having unintentionally become the emblem of self-sufficiency for Russian luxury goods, the Franco-British-owned Russian watchmaker Raketa is investing heavily in the Middle East to compensate for losses in its European markets.
Dutch gallery owner Salomon Lilian, who specialises in 16th- and 17th-century Dutch painting, has failed to have annulled a search by French tax authorities of a Paris flat he used as his office. Documents seized concerned the gallery's French clients and the terms under which they were sold paintings.
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Beyond his law firm, Geneva lawyer Bertrand Gros - who chaired Rolex's board of directors until the summer - acts as a trustee for the family that controls Firmenich, one of the world's top three fragrance producers.
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Fashion show production agency Villa Eugénie is set to organise a showstopper event in a desert landscape - hot on the heels of its competitor, Bureau Betak, organising Yves Saint Laurent's 2023 men's show in Morocco's Agafay desert.
Following an internal investigation, the jeweller Cartier, a subsidiary of the Richemont group, has quietly dismissed several members of its diamond procurement unit.
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France's lower-house parliamentary study group on luxury will be co-chaired by two lawmakers, one from the conservative Les Républicains party and the other from a centrist bloc.
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