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This Week: Luxury’s Salone Love Affair

The downturn in demand for luxury fashion hasn’t stopped major brands from making a splash at Milan’s Salone del Mobile design fair.
A downturn in demand for luxury fashion hasn’t stopped brands from making a splash at the latest Salone del Mobile design fair, which opens in Milan this week.
Saint Laurent is exhibiting previously unrealised pieces of furniture by the late Charlotte Perriand at the latest Salone del Mobile design fair, which opens in Milan this week. (Saint Laurent)
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A downturn in demand for luxury fashion hasn’t stopped brands from making a splash at the latest Salone del Mobile design fair, which opens in Milan this week. If anything, the slowdown has sharpened the industry’s focus on the strata of top clients — critical to luxury’s business this year — who come to town for the spring event.

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Vikram Alexei Kansara
Vikram Alexei Kansara

Vikram Alexei Kansara is Editorial Director at The Business of Fashion. He is based in London and oversees BoF’s luxury, fashion week, art, sustainability, global markets and opinion verticals.

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