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Square Management advocates the transition to sustainable luxury business models

The French consulting firm examines the drivers, obstacles, and opportunities of a demanding but unavoidable paradigm shift for luxury brands, which involves placing sustainability at the heart of their business models.

 

Integrating sustainability at the very heart of their business model, rather than as a peripheral issue.

 

This is the “paradigm shift” encouraged by the report “Sustainable Luxury Business Models,” recently published by the consulting firm Square Management.

 

“Today, as societal expectations evolve, natural resources become scarcer, and regulations tighten, luxury players are particularly faced with the need to know how to create value without compromising the future,” the authors emphasize. This question implies, in particular, that luxury brands must transform their business models in order to have a positive impact on their customers, but also on their entire ecosystem, communities, and future generations.

 

Paradigm shift

 

But the necessary “paradigm shift” cannot be summed up as “better communication or cosmetic adjustments”; “it requires a fundamental rethinking of how value is created, captured, and shared.”

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Sophie Michentef
Sophie Michentef has worked for more than 30 years in the professional press. For fifteen years, she managed the French and international editorial staff of the Journal du Textile. She now puts her press, textile, fashion, and luxury expertise at the service of newspapers, professional organizations, and companies.

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