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February 2025

The luxury shopping charade
Updates about crime in and around London department store Selfridges, and the full extent of Chinese gang activity in a Barcelona Louis Vuitton store…
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Conrad Quilty-Harper
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John Simpson
The Devil Wears Prada is for real
The UK fashion industry is rife with harassment, abuse, low pay, and nepotism, according to a new survey
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Alfred Tong
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Conrad Quilty-Harper
A loaded gun in Selfridges
Dark Luxury’s investigation reveals rampant criminality on the London shop floor – including discovery of a loaded gun – with little action taken by…
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John Simpson
The risks of dumping the Margaux
Dark Luxury asks leading expert, Sabrina Sadiq, CEO of Luxury Promise, about the potential impact of discontinuing The Row’s best-selling handbag.
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Conrad Quilty-Harper
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Alfred Tong
Hermès CEO: The Walmart Birkin is ‘detestable’
Hermès CEO Axel Dumas implied he will use legal action to fight the makers of dupes like the $80 Walmart Birkin, nicknamed “the Wirkin.”
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Conrad Quilty-Harper
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Alfred Tong
Kering 2024 results: Has ‘mass market’ luxury finally lost its lustre?
Or does the recovery start now?
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Alfred Tong
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Conrad Quilty-Harper
Looking through LVMH and Louis Vuitton's Glassdoor
We downloaded and read more than 5,000 reviews about what it’s like to work at LVMH and Louis Vuitton on Glassdoor
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Conrad Quilty-Harper
The dupes apocalypse
Did Trump just kill the US's supply of dupes? Plus: How Ferrari turbocharged its profits, and the owner of De Beers looks for a way out
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Conrad Quilty-Harper
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Alfred Tong
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