Luxury is in fashion and is now to be found in almost every retail, manufacturing and service sector. New terms like "mass-luxury," "new luxury" and "hyper luxury" attempt to qualify luxury. But if everything is luxury then surely the term itself has no meaning! There is confusion today about what really makes a luxury product, a luxury brand or a luxury company. The Luxury Strategy analyses in depth the essence of luxury, highlights its managerial implications and rationalizes the highly original methods – often very far from the usual marketing strategies – used to transform small family businesses such as Ferrari, BMW, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Armani or Ralph Lauren into worldwide successes. The Luxury Strategy clarifies the difference between "premium," "fashion," and "luxury," and sets out the counter-intuitive rules for successfully marketing luxury goods and services. Luxury experts Jean-Noel Kapferer and Vincent Bastien provide the first rigorous blueprint for effectively managing luxury brands and companies at the highest level, including human resources and financial management. Finally, The Luxury Strategy unveils how in any market, including B to B, a company can learn from luxury strategies to differentiate itself profitably.

Vincent Bastien

奢侈品行業經驗最豐富的資深管理者，在過去的25年裏，他一直在首席執行官/總經理的位置上任職，包括奢侈品行業——在LV擔任總經理6年、賽諾菲集團（Sanofi）美妝部門的總經理3年（管理的品牌包括聖羅蘭、Nina Ricci、Yves Rocher和Sanofi Beauté），及B2B 行業（玻璃製品和印刷業）。同期，他也管理自己的成衣公司。目前在巴黎高等商學院擔任客座教授，教授奢侈品戰略。他是巴黎理工大學、巴黎高等商學院、斯坦福商學院的校友。

Jean-Noel　Kapferer

品牌管理領域的最著名的專傢，其最新暢銷著作《最新戰略品牌管理》（The New Strategic Brand Management）是國際MBA為頂級市場管理者指定的參考書。 Kapferer在巴黎高等商學院（HEC）歐洲奢侈品研究中心任教，著有十多部著作，並發錶過上百篇研究文章，堪稱品牌研究領域的一位有思想的領導者。在谘詢領域，他為許多大品牌提供谘詢服務，擔任董事和顧問，經常在中國、日本、韓國、印度和美國等地為為企業高管培訓。他擁有美國西北大學的博士學位。