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The Altagamma-Bain Monitor 2026 reveals a global luxury market that is stabilizing in numbers but transforming in every other way.
AI adoption in retail is accelerating at a pace that has no precedent. Across every major study published in the last six months, the returns tell a different story.
Ten years after the Brexit vote, the EU-UK trade data proves that political promises never materialized. With Britain's seventh prime minister incoming and single market re-entry back on the table, the Brexit trade impact is finally at the center of the conversation.
Eurostat’s consumer price map is widely referenced and rarely questioned. It is also missing the one major variable that makes it useful for retail: what consumers earn.
The most senior executives in fashion and luxury voted live at the 2026 RLC Fashion Summit in Milan. Several of their answers run counter to what the industry publicly professes to believe.
China's exports rose 14.1% in April 2026, beating forecasts by a wide margin, as AI-driven global demand absorbed the disruption caused by the war in Iran. The trade surplus widened to $84.82 billion. The numbers demand explanation.
The Q1 2026 fashion earnings season is the most revealing in years. Across luxury, sportswear, fast fashion and heritage retail, the results expose a single defining fault line: brand clarity. Here is what the numbers say, and what they signal for the rest of the decade.
In a market where geographic expansion no longer guarantees growth, luxury brands face a more fundamental challenge: how to remain wanted.
On 4 June 2026, the 2026 RLC Fashion Summit brought together the CEOs, investors and institutional leaders defining the next phase of the fashion and luxury ecosystem, for a full day of closed-door strategic debate at the Four Seasons Hotel Milano.
Three forces — consumer retrenchment, a geopolitical shock in the Middle East, and US trade tariffs — are hitting the global textile industry simultaneously. And the sector has never looked more exposed.
While the broader MSCI Europe index grew 5.7% in Q1 2026, European consumer discretionary earnings fell more than 12% — well below the projected 2.4% decline, making consumer discretionary the worst-performing sector of the season.
Because the conversations shaping fashion and luxury have become more intentional, more strategic, and ultimately more consequential.
Brunello Cucinelli, Prada Group, Selfridges Group, Saks Global among confirmed participants at the Four Seasons Hotel Milano.
The department store sector has been declared dead more times than anyone cares to count. The IGDS World Department Store Summit 2026 begs to differ.
March data from the CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor shows six consecutive months of growth, even as consumer sentiment hits record lows and inflation reaches its highest point in two years.