Chopard, the sculptor of the Palme d’Or, or Golden Palm, trophy for the festival winners, plans to announce a groundbreaking partnership with the Alliance for Responsible Mining, ARM, an organization that works to repair environments damaged by gold mining and helps small-scale miners sell their metal through a fair-trade certification program. Through the partnership, Chopard will get its gold from small mines in Colombia and...

Welcome to the 3rd Sustainable Luxury Forum! June 18-19, 2013 - Geneva The Sustainable Luxury Forum is back for its 3rd edition, drawing change makers, Luxury brand executives and leaders to explore, debate and address social and environmental issues affecting the Luxury industry. Under the theme « How to balance business opportunities with social change and impact ?  » the meeting will provide an unrivalled...

An LVMH-owned website dedicated to luxury cruises where consumers can learn about, research and plan everything to do with holidaying at sea will launch this summer. IT’s about CUSTOMIZED INTEGRATED MEDIA. Onboard Media has set up onboard.com in order to fill what the company says is a void in the cruise market. It promises to feature in-depth cruise destination content presented in an engaging manner over a variety of media...

Since 2009 Livia Firth and Lucy Siegle have mixed hyper glamour and ecologically intelligent design through their showstopping Green Carpet Challenge. Follow their journey here as they bring sustainable style to the A-list and the biggest red carpet events on the planet. « This is a breakthrough moment for sustainable style, » says Livia. « Once again, our collaboration with Gucci spotlights this fashion...

In an effort to curb growing frustration with government corruption and the growing rich poor gap, the Chinese government has recently banned advertisements for luxury products on television and radio. Nothing totally new as this weak signal appeared back in our post in 2011 and 2012. (type china in search above) What will now happen ? Does watch brand investment in Formula 1 still make sense ? Is « timekeeping »...

Greenpeace Italy asked luxury fashion brands if they were respecting the planet ? … The vocal NGO sent these top brands a survey to find out if their luxury products are tainted with forest destruction and hazardous chemicals. The ranking does not look great at all for some high end brands, not because of their current activities, but because they seemingly « snobbed » the NGO. Probably not wise to ignore your...