Schedule: The Luxury Conversation 2026

Day One — Ravensbourne (10 September)

09:30–10:00 — Registration & welcome coffee
10:00–11:00 — Welcome & In Conversation with… (Curator: Prof. Shaun Borstrock) — Dr Brett Staniland & Sam Bompas
11:15–12:15 — Panel: The Transparency Paradox (Curator: Dr Dusica Lehmann) — Olivier Gaud, Nathalie Morrison, Daniela Dufour
12:25–13:05 — Academic Paper Presentations 1 & 2 — Authority, Power and the Architecture of Value
- Dr Fabian Faurholt Csaba (Copenhagen Business School) — Revaluing Luxury: Value, Authority and the Global Luxury System
- Monica Macias Bindang (London College of Fashion, UAL) — Who Defines Luxury? Authority, Universality, and the Politics of Change
13:05–13:50 — Lunch
13:50–14:50 — Panel: Communicating Luxury Today (Curator: Julian Vogel) — Patrick McDowell, Jaye Thomson, Jessica Burrell
14:50–15:30 — Academic Paper Presentations 3 & 4
- Prof. Yasmin K Sekhon Dhillon (University of Southampton) — From Inheritance to Interrogation: Children, Generational Change, and the Decolonisation of Luxury
- Dr Alice Guzzetti, Dr Valeria Belvedere & Glyn Atwal (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore / Burgundy School of Business) — Orchestrating Luxury Innovation: A Network Analysis of Technology Adoption and Supply Chain Dynamics in Fashion-Tech Accelerators
15:45–16:45 — Recap Session (Prof. Shaun Borstrock)

10:00–11:00 — Panel: Who Makes Luxury? (Curator: Dr Kelly Meng) — Timur Kamalov, Charos Kamalova, Yiran Duan, Bidisha Sinha
11:15–11:55 — Academic Paper Presentations 5 & 6 — Bodies, Publics and the Craft of Luxury Experience
- Dr Debbie Coney (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) — The Optimised Body: Embodied Luxury and the Pursuit of Peak Performance
- Dr Oonagh O’Hagan (Central Saint Martins, UAL) — Incentive Aesthetics and Fashion Methadone: Luxury Without the Toxicity
11:55–12:55 — Panel: Longevity (Curator: Prof. Shaun Borstrock) — Gemma Metheringham, Maria Grachvogel, Noah Bier
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00–14:40 — Academic Paper Presentations 7 & 8
- Mamta Reid & Dr Estelle Dinh (Glion Institute of Higher Education) — The Limits of Prestige: Symbolic Capital, Belonging, and Bicultural Generation Z Workers in Tokyo’s Luxury Restaurants
- Dr Charles A. Lawry (Emlyon business school) — Luxury and Art Publics: Artification or Hype?
14:55–15:55 — Panel: Resonance and the Future of the Human in Luxury (Curator: Dr Fabio Duma) — Fabian Messer, Jane Wu
16:10–16:45 — Closing Panel — Prof Shaun Borstrock, Dr Kelly Meng, Julian Vogel, Dr Dusica Lehmann, Dr Fabio Duma