The End of Luxury?

When: Thursday, November 12, 2026, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Where: Lecture Theatre, Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

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Join us for a special Film Fashion Forum on the state of luxury fashion, hosted by the FIVE LEAF Institute.

Thursday 12 November, 6.30pm to 7.30pm followed by a networking reception.

We will be joined by Claire Kent, who will present her recent report, The End of Luxury As We Know It? in roundtable with a panel of experts from across, law, industry, and fashion studies.

The event is free but registration is essential. We hope you can join us!

Speakers:

Claire Kent (Claire Kent Consulting and report author)

Claire Kent is an independent luxury goods and retail consultant, with over twenty years’ experience as an equity analyst before founding Claire Kent Consulting in 2008. Claire was ranked the top European luxury equity analyst for nine consecutive years by Institutional Investor and was also cited as among the top 100 most influential people in fashion by Time Magazine. Today Claire specialises in luxury/retail strategy, analysis, valuation and expert witness work. Claire is a Senior Advisor for Smith Square Partners and has previously held board seats at Prada SA, French Connection, Georg Jensen and Fairfax & Favor. She has led the research for the IPOs of Bulgari, Gucci and Burberry; as well as advised on the IPOs of Prada and Pandora.

Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas (Professor of Marketing and Sustainable Fashion, Ravensbourne University London)

Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas is an award-winning sustainable fashion expert named in The SustainabilityX® Magazine’s Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™. Natascha has collaborated with organisations, including Charity Super.Mkt, Crafts Council, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the British Beauty Council and is a keynote speaker cited by The New York Times, the Independent, Vogue Business, BBC, CBC and NPR. A National Teaching Fellow and one of the world’s first LEGO® Serious Play® facilitators specialising in sustainability, Natascha is Professor of Marketing and Sustainable Fashion at Ravensbourne University London where she co-leads the Regenerative Fashion Lab, researching sustainable fashion, craft and cultural heritage, social enterprise business, responsible management education and the intersection of sustainable practices and well-being. Natascha has held leadership positions at the UK charity The Costume Society, and with the United Nation’s supported initiative Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and is a member of the PRME Global Expert Pedagogy Group. Natascha’s books include ‘Fashion Management: A Strategic Approach’ and the ‘Routledge Companion to Fashion and Business’. She is Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases and co-Principal Editor of the International Journal of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles.

Caecilia Dance (Art and Luxury Law Associate, Wedlake Bell)

Caecilia advises artists, collectors, galleries, auction houses, artists’ estates and other art market participants on a broad range of issues relating to the art and luxury world. She has experience of advising on buying and selling art and luxury assets (including classic cars), artists’ rights, intellectual property (IP), import and export, art finance, anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions, and issues related to the authenticity of artworks. She has a particular interest in the restitution of Nazi-looted art and cultural heritage more generally. While her practice is predominantly non-contentious, Caecilia also advises on art disputes, having gained extensive commercial litigation experience in a previous role.

Johanna Gibson (Queen Mary, University of London)

Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Johanna is the Founder and Director of the FIVE LEAF Institute for Law and Aesthetics and Chair of the Film Fashion Forum (first convened in 2022), which sits within the Institute. Johanna is Director of the Fashion Law programme at CCLS, QMUL and the editor of the Bloomsbury/Hart Fashion Law Library, with Frantzeska Papadopoulou, and editor of the Law and Aesthetics series for Routledge.