Over 90% of luxury purchases still take place in-store, yet HNWI often spend over 48 hours a week online. Can Crest & Co., which brings ‘the best of the best’ in luxury goods online, get super-rich customers and exclusive brands alike to re-evaluate how luxury goods are sold?

What is luxury? How does strategy in the luxury sector work? And what can it teach other brands? Marco Bevolo, one of the authors ofPremium by Design: how to understand, design and market high end products, provides a vision of the business of prestige, desire and seduction.

Will premium brands step up to the luxury level? How will shoppers become more savvy in their spending? In what ways will luxury brands react to ‘digital’ and how do UHNWI really shop? As part of our Expert Outlook 2015 series we speak to three luxury experts about the promise of exclusivity, supreme quality and everything bespoke.

French know-how, heritage, and traditions are the essence of luxury. This expertise is acknowledged globally – nearly 85% of all French luxury goods are exported. But, with the rise of new markets such as China and Russia, is France still the world’s top reference for luxury?