THE HOLDING ENTITY
STRATEGIC
LUXURY GROUP
Dubai · GCC
THE CREATIVE PRACTICE
CREATIVE
EXECUTIVE SEARCH
الأصل · an SLG brand
The Gulf is the
THE HOLDING ENTITY
Specialists in international luxury leadership.
future of luxury.
THE CREATIVE PRACTICE
Built for the rarest talent it will need.
THE HOLDING ENTITY
Trade in intelligence, not services.
One entity, four disciplines. Boards, principals and ExCo across the commercial spine of luxury.
THE CREATIVE PRACTICE
The same standard, a different market.
The maisons, studios and institutions where a creative decision sets what a thing means before anyone operates it.
THE APPROACH · THE DIFFERENTIATOR
Provenance is the origin of a decision.
In luxury, provenance establishes the origin and authenticity of an object. Applied to leadership, it establishes the origin and integrity of executive decision-making. Product provenance protects brand value; decision provenance protects enterprise value.
WHAT IT IS
The structured capture of leadership judgement over time — the evidence of how decisions were made, under what conditions, and with what long-term consequence.
A candidate is read against the projects they actually shaped: an anchor mandate plus two or three others that formed their career. Each is referenced with the people who were in the room, so the record is corroborated rather than narrated.
A candidate likely to meet an undefined need — or the one who has already executed the mandate you are describing?
THE PROCESS
Calibration. The business case is established with the client, and the points of the model that will produce a verifiable candidate are identified.
Analysis. The market is mapped against that case — actively, where the client names a project, or passively, where the brief is defined by brand, market or discipline.
Timeline. The elements, people and decisions of the named projects are established with the candidate, in sequence.
Corroboration. Research extends to the teams and individuals involved — dynamics, roles, timing — and identifies parallel projects across adjacent industries.
WHAT IT CHANGES
The anchor point becomes the business objective rather than the candidate. The decision is evidenced by people who were there. And the reading returns a map of how the work was actually done — including whether the team already exists inside the organisation.
WHERE IT SITS IN THE SEARCH
A BRAND OF STRATEGIC LUXURY GROUP
Creation is the origin.
A brand can be run well for a decade and mean nothing new at the end of it. Operations protect what a brand is. Creative leadership decides what it becomes — which is why the appointment cannot be assessed on a record of employment.
الأصل · THE ORIGIN · CREATIVE EXECUTIVE SEARCH
ONE PRACTICE · FOUR OFFERINGS
One practice, four offerings.
The Brief defines the problem; Search composes the leadership; Studio builds beneath it; the Read holds the field.
The Brief
The problem, before any names
Search
Creative leadership, retained
Studio
The team beneath the director
The Read
The creative field, mapped
FIVE AREAS · THE ROLES THIS PRACTICE IS BUILT FOR
Mandates, by area.
Wherever a creative decision sets what a thing means before anyone operates it — and the leadership that has to hold it once it does.
Fashion and luxury
Creative Director · Artistic Director · Chief Brand Officer · Design Director · Chief Retail Officer · Chief Atelier
Interiors and architecture
Design Principal · Studio Director · Head of Interiors · Design Director
Art and culture
Artistic Director · Chief Curator · Head of Programming · Exhibition and Design Lead · Costume Director · General Manager · Managing Director
Real estate
Design Director · Head of Placemaking · Head of Partnerships · Architecture, all levels
Food and beverage
Concept Director · Creative Director · Culinary Director · Executive Chef · General Manager · Partnerships Director
PORTFOLIO-LED ASSESSMENT
The work is the evidence.
The assessment reads the body of work with the person who made it, criterion by criterion, with the evidence set beside each judgement. A record of employment cannot show any of it.
Authorship
Made, or inherited
Evidence: the first collection after arrival, and the last one before leaving.
Range
Does it hold under constraint
Evidence: the commercial lines and the entry price points, not the show pieces.
The Studio
Who they convened
Evidence: who they hired, and where those people are now. The alumni, traced.
Contradiction
Aesthetic against the P&L
Evidence: the season they conceded, and what they protected instead.
The work, not the CV.
The same threshold SLG applies.
SAME ENTITY
What differs.
MARKET
Global corporations, private equity, investment portfolio businesses, family offices, boards
THE EVIDENCE
Record, lineage, judgement under ambiguity
SAME STANDARD
What holds.
MARKET
Maisons, studios, institutions, developers, groups
THE EVIDENCE
The body of work — authorship, range, studio, contradiction
FUTURE CONSUMER · LUXURY
Catherine Broome.
Executive Director at Strategic Luxury Group. Senior executive search and strategic advisory across the global fashion and luxury sectors — partnering with founders, family owners, CEOs, boards, sovereign wealth funds and private equity on confidential leadership appointments and organisational design.
Formative years in Milan and London, working closely with European luxury craftsmanship, designer-led maisons and family-owned heritage brands. Combined with exposure across the GCC, Europe and Asia — cultural fluency and discretion in complex cross-border environments.
Confidential senior leadership appointments and organisational design. C-suite and executive mandates across creative, product, technical, supply chain, commercial, digital, merchandising, finance, operations, ESG and people functions.
Embedded European luxury exposure combined with deep GCC market experience and full value-chain understanding — bridging heritage craftsmanship with modern innovation, particularly within experiential retail and HNWI ecosystems.
Engagements are taken directly. Entered by private referral.
catherine@strategic-luxury.com