http://www.psfk.com/2007/11/psfk-at-luxury-briefing-2007.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:50:05 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.psfk.com/2007/11/psfk-at-luxury-briefing-2007.html/comment-page-1#comment-9890 Kate Patrick Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:16:55 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2007/11/psfk-at-luxury-briefing-2007.html#comment-9890 Amanda, I'm interested in what you have to say on the LB Conference. As an Associate Editor of LB, I have been involved with it (and with the conferences) for 11 years, and the subject of 'changing definitions of luxury' has been so thoroughly covered and analysed over that period as to have become an obsession amongst us and our columnists! This conference was not designed as a forum for that (although that is not to say we won't return to it in future conferences, and would be glad of your input). Likewise, we didn't want to get into high-end fractional ownership, or 'luxury rentals', or any of the other themes currently dominating thinking in the luxury arena (see the current November issue), as being distractions to the main message: waking up to what the web can do, and should be made to do, for both customers and businesses (and remember we are addressing some businesses that move very slowly indeed and distrust change). Dee Salomon, Senior Vice President of CondeNet, and the genius Tyler Brule, were particularly authoritative and persuasive, I felt. Most, if not all, attendees will have taken away morsels for thought. Having done this, I would like to see the internet incorporated into future conferences as just one element of the causes and effects of changing definitions of luxury. Amanda, I’m interested in what you have to say on the LB Conference. As an Associate Editor of LB, I have been involved with it (and with the conferences) for 11 years, and the subject of ‘changing definitions of luxury’ has been so thoroughly covered and analysed over that period as to have become an obsession amongst us and our columnists! This conference was not designed as a forum for that (although that is not to say we won’t return to it in future conferences, and would be glad of your input). Likewise, we didn’t want to get into high-end fractional ownership, or ‘luxury rentals’, or any of the other themes currently dominating thinking in the luxury arena (see the current November issue), as being distractions to the main message: waking up to what the web can do, and should be made to do, for both customers and businesses (and remember we are addressing some businesses that move very slowly indeed and distrust change). Dee Salomon, Senior Vice President of CondeNet, and the genius Tyler Brule, were particularly authoritative and persuasive, I felt. Most, if not all, attendees will have taken away morsels for thought. Having done this, I would like to see the internet incorporated into future conferences as just one element of the causes and effects of changing definitions of luxury.

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