Antarctica to Hobart: Ponant’s ultra-luxury icebreaker is headed Down Under

The world’s first ultra-luxury icebreaker is charting a course for Hobart, bringing billionaires, scientists and an idea born over dinner in Brittany to Australia’s edge.  In 2015, over dinner and a bottle of wine in Brittany, France, a handful of Ponant executives discussed an idea that sounded implausible. They wanted a ship strong enough to […]

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Inside the French household steering a 77-year-old luxury brand

A rare look inside the French family business defying the luxury giants – and the momentum pushing Longchamp into its strongest years yet. Ask Jean Cassegrain if the family has ever considered selling Longchamp and he doesn’t hesitate. “No.” In a luxury market built on consolidation and scale, the 77-year-old French house remains one of […]