LVMH, Kering and Richemont are simultaneously re-examining brand portfolios, organisational structures and store networks. This isn't routine optimisation. When all three conglomerates move in sync, it signals a fundamental recalibration of what luxury means post-2025. The timing matters: tech companies are borrowing fashion's branding playbook whilst fashion strips itself down to essentials.
Cultural authority is splitting in two directions simultaneously. Tech companies are desperately buying into fashion's cultural codes whilst luxury conglomerates strip down to structural essentials.
Both moves respond to the same threat: AI-generated abundance is eroding the scarcity that creates desire. The winners will be whoever controls cultural meaning, not production capacity.
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