Should high-end brands be accessible? Will stores become exhibition spaces? What makes a cool collaboration? As part of the 2018 Expert Outlook, we speak to three experts about why luxury consumers want to get their hands dirty and how they expect brands to express their values.

As well as featuring fantastical gadgets and dastardly villains, 2017 movie sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle celebrates secret agent style. And it’s letting fans replicate the spy look with an official capsule collection launched in collaboration with luxury menswear retailer Mr Porter.

A collaboration between Louis Vuitton and streetwear brand Supreme might seem like business as usual nowadays, but parent brand LVMH has launched a more high-brow partnership – teaming up with Oxford University to publish a collection of works by French philosopher Voltaire.

Once staunchly anti-social, with working-class roots, tattoos are experiencing a renaissance. A new collaboration between Swiss watchmaker Hublot and tattooist Maxime Buchi is the latest in counter-culture luxe, demonstrating that distinctions between high and low culture have all but disappeared.