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The Customizers Charlie Stockwell and George Bamford

According to Pope Francis, “the age of authority has ended and the age of persuasion has begun”. And if the father of the Holy Roman Catholic church understands that today you need to reach individuals and win over each and every heart and mind, then you need to understand this, too. Because the luxury world is undergoing a transformation in which the most astute consumers have disavowed mass luxury and turned their back on the homogenous Peter Marinodesigned edifices of egotism that have

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