The Italian fashion group, one of the largest family-run luxury goods houses, expects to be valued at as much as €8bn given soaring valuations for luxury goods companies

Here are some of the biggest beauty events and releases coming up over the next few weeks.

For being one of the fastest-paced industries, fashion has sometimes been remarkably slow in jumping on the online bandwagon. One of the brands that took especially long to get selling on the...

Click to Buy That Handbag in Vogue as Magazines Become E-Tailers Bloomberg About $1.57 billion was spent last year on apparel and accessories ads in US magazines -- down from more than $2 billion in...

In the ’80s Inès de la Fressange reigned as the most super of the supermodels. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel throughout the decade (until the two had a falling out in 1989) she was, according to...

It’s easy to discount professional golf as a brand-sponsorship proposition given the leveling off in the number of American golfers, the shaming and slumping of Tiger Woods, and the fact that Buick...

Spot Investigation By Qingdao Newspaper Bandao Finds Discounts Scarce, Markups High Hisense Plaza in Qingdao It’s no secret that the high price of luxury goods in mainland China relative to Hong...

Chinese Contemporary Primary Market Confidence Indicator Rose Whopping 28 Percent Since September 2010 Confidence at an All-Time High (Graph: ArtTactic) ArtTactic’s newest survey of the Chinese...

First Hermes launched a Chinese luxury brand, Shang Xia, now comes word that InterContinental Hotels (IHG) will launch a new Chinese brand hotel in 2012 or 2013 to diversify and capture a larger...

see photosForbes Images Click for full photo gallery: Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation After local authorities halted construction of Bernard Arnault’s new art museum in Paris, the French...

LVMH's Tokyo Stores Are 'Less Full' After Tsunami, Arnault Says Bloomberg LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (MC) Chief Executive Officer Bernard Arnault said the luxury-goods...

One group of people marketers would love to get their ads in front of are the affluent. There is no way to target strictly job titles, incomes, or property values on Facebook unless you think outside...

LVMH CEO: Japan Remains Essential To Business Wall Street Journal PARIS (Dow Jones)--French luxury goods company LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (MC.FR) will continue to invest in Japan, a...

Socially Curated, Interactive Heritage Storytelling - the trend born from luxury brands’ and retailers’ use of social media and digital technology. Chanel is the latest luxury brand to... Online...

Consumers have a chance to model for the Saks POV blog Department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue is using Facebook to hook three upscale women to model in a Marc Jacobs-inspired photo shoot to post...

Live on the runway French fashion house Louis Vuitton has expanded the reach of its fall/winter collection by streaming the fashion show that is optimized for the iPhone and iPad. Consumers can...

French leading luxury online retailer VENTE-PRIVEE.COM has announced the launch of a coupon discounted service named Rosedeal, which sells discounted...

Esquire plans to provide its editorial expertise to Clad.com, a new men’s style and e-commerce site owned by J.C. Penney. Continue reading... Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.

It looks as though Net-a-Porter's new men's wear Web site is going to be a popular guy. Continue reading... Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.

Joining a fast-growing landscape of online art sellers, Artspace.com, a virtual marketplace specializing in limited-edition prints by contemporary artists, launches today. ...