Japanese skincare brand SK-II enters India beauty market. It will retail via an omni-channel retail strategy to tap into the country’s fast-growing affluent consumer base. SK-2 will sell exclusively through Nykaa, which is India’s single largest omni-channel player, and Galeries Lafayette department store.

Sabyasachi, India’s most powerful luxury brand is breaking barriers once thought impossible by an Indian label. It’s scaling  internationally, while outranking established names like Tom Ford & Prada in key global industry rankings. Luxury Volt decodes how Sabyasachi’s organic media strategy is fuelling its extraordinary ascent.

Sabyasachi is one of India’s most valuable luxury brands. Founded in 1999 by designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee – the maximalist, aspirational Indian brand has grown its portfolio from wedding couture to high-jewellery and accessories. Sabyasachi is now expanding his global footprint with a New York flagship store and a succession of viral international red-carpet moments. Here…

At key global red carpet events, Alia Bhatt has out-ranked icons like Zendaya and Kendall Jenner, while generating multi-million dollar EMV for brands like Gucci & L’Oréal. Discover how the Indian actress strategically built her influence from a teenage movie star to an ROI magnet from south Asia.

Discover how India’s young UHNI founders are building massive wealth, while shaping some of the most valuable businesses of the 21st century. A new generation of founders is reshaping the Indian economy by solving everyday consumer problems and turning them into high-value enterprises.

Change is sweeping through India’s beauty market. Luxury skincare is booming. Demand is expanding beyond metros to tier-2 & tier-3 cities. Steering this shift is the new ‘skin-intelligent’ Indian consumer – actively researching ingredients and trusting proven results over brand claims.

An increasing number of international luxury brands are signing Indian celebrities as global ambassadors as they recognise the rising spending power of India’s growing affluent classes and the massive global Indian diaspora. Legacy houses like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Bentley, Bvlgari and Cartier have appointed stars such as Alia Bhatt, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, to…

India is cutting import duties on many luxury goods; cars, watches, cosmetics & wines through new trade deals with the EU, UK, UAE, Switzerland and Australia. Lower taxes will boost demand of foreign luxury goods in India, encouraging more global brands to enter and expand in the market.