Where do luxury goods go now?

Mark Tungate

Luxury goods of one kind or another have been desired by men and women for a long time. But over the past decade the classic, mostly French, brands have given way to accessible luxury which both expanded but also diluted their names.

Where do luxury goods go now?

Mark Tungate

It's 10am on a sunny Sunday morning and for once the Avenue des Champs-Elysées is quiet. Normally the distant Arc de Triomphe is obscured by a haze of exhaust fumes rising from two crawling lines of traffic, but today the view up the avenue from the Place de la Concorde is diamond clear.

The avenue is not entirely deserted, however. A motorcade of three large black cars makes its stately way to the Louis Vuitton flagship store at the corner of Avenue George V. The cars sigh to a halt outside the...

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