Is tear gassing customers bad for luxury?

Swatch CEO's statement on the Audemars Piguet Royal Pop disaster defies belief, LVMH's farcical anti-tax lobbying efforts and James Bond sells Chinese cars while Aston Martin requests another bailout

In this week’s Dark Luxury news round-up

• Tear gas, fist fights and the Swatch x Audemars Piguet debacle

• How LVMH lobbied against a French tax and lost

• Bernard Arnault sells Marc Jacobs for $850 million

• D…