The Financial Times is delighted to announce Kim Jones OBE, one of the most influential designers in contemporary fashion, as the keynote speaker at the Business of Luxury Summit – Asia Edition. The Financial Times, in partnership with Nikkei, will host the Business of Luxury Summit – Asia edition at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on 20-21 October.
Kim Jones OBE is a globally acclaimed designer known for redefining luxury fashion through his fusion of high couture and street culture. After roles at Louis Vuitton, where his Supreme collaboration made waves, he became Artistic Director of Dior Men in 2018 and later added women’s ready-to-wear and couture at Fendi. Over more than a decade at the helm of the world’s leading maisons, Jones staged landmark shows from Paris to the Pyramids of Giza and cemented his reputation as one of fashion’s most innovative and influential voices.
Hosted in Hong Kong for the first time, the Business of Luxury Summit – Asia edition will convene a network of senior executives from key luxury businesses, entrepreneurs, investors and cultural tastemakers to examine the future trends of luxury and how to unlock growth opportunities across the region. The agenda-setting summit will explore regional investment patterns, demographic shifts, digital innovation and the evolving playbook for luxury brands in Asia.
FT and Nikkei moderators for the event will include Jo Ellison, editor of HTSI; Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, FT; Mikio Sugeno, chair of the Nikkei editorial board, and Akito Tanaka, editor in chief, Nikkei Asia. The summit’s speaker lineup of global and regional industry leaders includes:
● Ryoji Shoda, Global Head, Onitsuka Tiger
● Benedetto Vigna, Chief Executive Officer, Ferrari
● Cynthia Oh, Executive Visual Director, The Black Label
● Siddhartha Shukla, Deputy CEO, Lanvin
● Masataka Hosoo, President & CEO, Hosoo
● Putri Tanjung, Chief Experience Officer, CT Corp; Director, Transmedia
● Teo Yang, Founder, Teo Yang Studio
● Georgina Wilson, Co-founder, Sunnies Studios
● Kyubum ‘KB” Lee, Creative Director
● Vijay Vaswani, Co-founder & CEO, Omniscope
● Matthew Growdon, President, APAC & Travel Retail Worldwide, The Estée Lauder Companies
● Toby Smith, Deputy Chairman, Swire Hotels
● Masahiro Horie, President, Tokyu Corporation
● Giuseppe Oliveri, Group COO, Central Group
● Kevin Poon, Co-founder, Clot; founder, WOAW and District
● Toshiko Yamazaki, CEO, GINZA SIX Retail Management
● Kate Richdale, Partner, Head of Global Client Solutions Institutional Sales & Family Capital, Asia Pacific, KKR
Special offer for WLCC Members: 20% discount on event attendance tickets
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About the Financial Times Group
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About Nikkei Inc
Nikkei Inc. is a world-renowned media brand for Asian news, respected for quality journalism and for being a trusted provider of business news and information. Founded as a market news provider in Japan in 1876, Nikkei has grown into one of the world’s largest media corporations, with 37 foreign editorial bureaus and approximately 1,500 journalists worldwide. Nikkei acquired the UK-based Financial Times in 2015. Our combined digital and print circulation totals about 2.5 million, and we are continually deploying new technologies to increase our readership.
