Have it your way: The growth of luxury customisation on August 21, 2017In the luxury market, unique customised items are one way of luring the rich. Italian entrepreneur Lapo Elkann explains how his firm is changing everyday items. Mass production came of age in the 20th century, with the promise of cheap products available to almost anyone. But the price of achieving this was uniformity. To keep […]
The firms trying to put the glamour back into flying on July 10, 2017In its infancy, commercial air travel was expensive, and seemed like the ultimate in luxury. Today, that era seems long gone. Delays, strikes, long queues at security checkpoints, packed planes, and incidents like the violent removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight, are just some of the factors that lead many air travellers […]