The Luxury and Retail Club (“LuxRet”) is taking member engagement to an innovative new level. On Monday, December 3, its members met at Sézane’s L’Appartement New York in Soho for the inaugural “Magazine Club” event, talking industry between sipping champagne and shopping the store’s new collection.
The Magazine Club idea was pitched by one of LuxRet’s new AVPs, Jamie Barrar, a Langone student and Account Executive at Google. Similar to a book club, the series is “slightly structured [and centers around] intimate conversation like a book club,” said Kate Burke, a Langone student and Senior Analyst at Tiffany & Co, who was the moderator of the evening.…