Since the late 1980s, the company has implemented a comprehensive strategy of verticalization, creating a global luxury brand which now ranges from fabric to clothing to accessories, is focused on retailing,
pioneering early entry in emerging luxury markets, BRIC and Asia in particular, and was the first luxury brand to open a monobrand store in China in 1991.
We wrote
earlier about Luyanda Mpahlwa and his Sandbag Houses by MMA Architects; it was one of the
entries in a competition teaming South African architects with international designers to
pioneer new affordable housing systems.