How luxury brands are taking to social media: insights from Asia

This report covers a panel session discussing the opportunities and challenges that luxury brands face when using social channels and platforms.

How luxury brands are taking to social media

Low Lai Chow

Christian Barker, Billionaire.com's editor-in-chief and CEO, was recently at the Milan Fashion Week when his photographer turned to him and went, "Should we give Instagram a try?"

It was an experiment that lasted all of 15 minutes, he told an event during Social Media Week Singapore.

With the popular social mobile photo-sharing app fast gaining popularity as a quick way to upload and share pictures, he found the quality of the pictures "absolutely ghastly" compared to these taken by a professional SLR camera.

"From my point of...

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