As emerging economies transform the consumer base for high-end goods, luxury is moving out of range of all but the very richest. The fashion industry is rushing to fill the gap, as the notion of aspiration is remodelled to appeal to a diverse range of consumers – and budgets.

Over 90% of luxury purchases still take place in-store, yet HNWI often spend over 48 hours a week online. Can Crest & Co., which brings ‘the best of the best’ in luxury goods online, get super-rich customers and exclusive brands alike to re-evaluate how luxury goods are sold?

Luxury brands have used heritage to differentiate and add value, but too much focus on the past can detract from the present. Hermès' 'Festival des Métiers' celebrates its craftsmanship and the incredible skill behind every item they sell today.

Luxury and digital are no longer anathema. Highly secretive and steeped in tradition, Chanel rewards visitors to its new microsite with unprecedented self-disclosure, proving that ‘heritage’ needn’t mean ‘out of touch’.

As luxury brands adapt to online, maintaining exclusivity is difficult. On UK online outlet Not Just a Label, people trade big names for one-off garments, buying into a subtler form of luxury. But how does it convince people to spend so much on labels they've never heard of?

What is luxury? How does strategy in the luxury sector work? And what can it teach other brands? Marco Bevolo, one of the authors of Premium by Design: how to understand, design and market high end products, provides a vision of the business of prestige, desire and seduction.

In France, specialist beauty retailers have lost significant market share, and people are warier of what they put on their skin. Aroma-Zone says DIY beauty products are the answer. But will French women swap well-loved luxury brands for lotions and potions they have to make by hand?

Luxury brands have enjoyed a meteoric rise amongst the expanding Chinese middle class, but with anti-corruption laws dampening the spirits of conspicuous consumers, shopping habits are shifting dramatically.