Category: WLCC Voices

By James W Phillips, Founder & CEO, JWP Media Group In a world overflowing with luxury products, perhaps the most valuable thing a brand can offer is no longer the object itself — but access to the people, passion and craftsmanship behind it. There was a time when acquiring something luxurious felt genuinely significant. A […]

Bengaluru creates more wealth than any city in South India. Its luxury retail is spread across thirty-five kilometres, and the money has moved somewhere else entirely. By Abhay Gupta – The Indian Luxury Strategist; Founder & Chairman, Luxury Connect & Luxury Connect Business School (LCBS). Every market that becomes a luxury destination does so in […]

By Ira Vouk, Hospitality Technology & AI Strategist “Agentic booking” has become one of those phrases everyone uses and few define. It sounds futuristic, powerful, inevitable. But when you listen closely, people mean very different things. If we don’t clarify the term, we risk building the wrong infrastructure for the wrong model. From what I’m seeing […]

By Sherrie Wilkolaski, Editor-in-Chief, Content Strategist, Publishing Architect™ Somewhere between a vacation-rental founder in Texas, a textile designer working out of a Cambodian rainforest, a resort executive in Antigua, and a furniture designer building beds in Sweden, a pattern started to surface, one I did not go looking for. Interviewing hoteliers, founders, designers, and conservationists for […]

By Clotilde Germain, Founder, Luxury Table Society When we think of French tableware, certain names immediately come to mind. Their reputation is international, their heritage sometimes spans centuries, and their creations grace some of the world’s most beautiful tables. But knowing a House does not always mean knowing how to read it. What truly distinguishes one […]

By Abhay Gupta – The Indian Luxury Strategist; Founder & Chairman, Luxury Connect & Luxury Connect Business School (LCBS). A house is not a collection. As the world debates whether Sabyasachi has produced India’s first global luxury maison, the more useful exercise is to measure the structure beneath the runway — and to ask what […]

Across real estate, hospitality, fragrance, architecture, fashion, media, wellness, and design, the conversations in Issue 6 of Luxury People Magazine point to a common conclusion: luxury is being measured less by excess and more by the value it creates. What makes something luxurious today? The answer once appeared relatively straightforward. Rarity, craftsmanship, heritage, exclusivity, exceptional […]

By Sherrie Wilkolaski, Editor-in-Chief, Content Strategist, Publishing Architect™ Across the interviews I conduct with leaders from different corners of the luxury industry, I often close with the same question: How do you define luxury? I ask it of hoteliers, architects, conservationists, and founders building entirely new categories of travel. I never coach the answer, and I […]

Op-Ed by Dr. Sheetal Jain, Founder & CEO of Luxe Analytics India is often presented to global luxury brands as a single, rapidly growing market. But that view misses one of the country’s biggest realities: India is a “mini Bharat” of distinct cultures, aspirations, lifestyles and consumption behaviours. From North to South and East to West, consumers […]

Rachel Walsh has built her career across luxury, fashion, and sports lifestyle, and now leads Marketing & Communications for Moët Hennessy UK & Ireland. She speaks to Luxury People Magazine about earning attention, finding an authentic place in culture, and why the smallest brand details can leave the greatest impression. Luxury People Magazine: Rachel, you’ve […]

The Luxury People Podcast (LPP), presented by the World Luxury Chamber of Commerce (WLCC), has become a respected platform for conversations with executives, innovators, and business leaders from across the global luxury industry. Hosted by António Paraíso, an internationally recognised luxury strategist, author, and branding expert, each episode goes beyond a traditional interview to explore […]

Op-Ed by Dr. Sheetal Jain, Founder & CEO of Luxe Analytics For years, the playbook for luxury brands entering or expanding in India has been remarkably consistent: focus on the Big Six cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai, and Hyderabad. These metropolitan markets have long been seen as the country’s primary engines of wealth, international exposure, […]

WLCC TOP Luxury Speaker of the World 2025 and 2026, Abhay Gupta, releases a new white paper examining the strategic divide that artificial intelligence is creating across the global luxury industry, and what it means for brands, leaders, and educators navigating the AI era. The luxury industry has reached an inflection point. After decades of […]