press clippings
Monday, 16 Aug 2010
EU allows the luxury of some control for upmarket designers
Lots of us will have snapped up a bargain in the summer sales. However, those who like to splash the cash on discounted luxury brands may not have been so fortunate. To protect the status of their brands some do not put their goods on sale or have outlet stores.
Manufacturers in the luxury market justify their high price tags not only because of the quality of their products, but also because of the prestige their goods carry thanks to the image they have carefully crafted over decades.
New competition regulations going through Europe were going to remove certain legal restrictions so that anybody would be able to sell such luxury products online, even if they could not sell them in their shops...