{"id":211582,"date":"2026-06-09T01:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abhaygupta.in\/?p=211582"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:44:13","slug":"when-heritage-brands-forget-what-made-them-irreplaceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhaygupta.in\/writing\/when-heritage-brands-forget-what-made-them-irreplaceable\/","title":{"rendered":"When Heritage Brands Forget What Made them Irreplaceable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ferrari, Jaguar, and the Mythology Mistake the Luxury Industry Keeps Making<\/em><\/p>\n

The luxury industry is having the wrong conversation about Ferrari.<\/p>\n

Since the Luce was unveiled in Rome on 25 May, the debate has centred on design \u2014 whether Jony Ive\u2019s interpretation of Ferrari\u2019s soul is faithful or treacherous, whether the five-door silhouette belongs to Maranello or Silicon Valley, whether the former Chairman\u2019s brutal verdict \u2014 that Ferrari risks destroying a legend, and that they should at least remove the prancing horse \u2014 is the voice of custodianship or conservatism.<\/p>\n

These are interesting questions. They are not the important one.<\/p>\n

The important question is structural: how does a brand with $80 billion in mythology arrive at a decision that its own former steward says risks destroying it? And what does the answer reveal about every luxury brand navigating the same pressure \u2014 including the ones being built right now?<\/p>\n

The Pattern the Industry Refuses to Learn<\/h3>\n

Scuderia Ferrari HP<\/a>\u00a0is not the first heritage luxury brand to make this mistake. It will not be the last.<\/p>\n

Eighteen months ago,\u00a0Jaguar<\/a>\u00a0unveiled a rebranding so radical it effectively erased the brand\u2019s identity. Gone was the leaping cat. Gone was six decades of British automotive heritage. In its place arrived a kaleidoscopic visual identity, androgynous models in no relationship to cars, and a tagline \u2014 Copy Nothing \u2014 that paradoxically copied every luxury fashion brand\u2019s aesthetic simultaneously.<\/p>\n

The backlash was not aesthetic. It was structural. Jaguar\u2019s audience did not object to modernisation. They objected to erasure. The brand had not evolved \u2014 it had abandoned.<\/p>\n

The lesson was clear and unambiguous: luxury brands derive their power from continuity of mythology. You can adapt the expression. You cannot abandon the soul.<\/p>\n

Eighteen months later, Ferrari has made a version of the same mistake \u2014 different in its specifics, identical in its underlying logic.<\/p>\n

Both brands, under pressure from shifting markets and demographic anxiety, prioritised category relevance over mythology coherence. Both hired external creative authority to solve what was fundamentally an internal architecture problem. Both generated immediate cultural conversation \u2014 and immediate mythology damage.<\/p>\n

The competitive context makes Ferrari\u2019s decision more indefensible, not less. Lamborghini cancelled its planned EV citing lack of demand for high-end electric supercars. In the wake of the Luce\u2019s reception, Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelman told CNBC that the decision to cancel was the right call. When the CEO of your direct rival uses your launch as public vindication of their opposite strategic choice, the mythology damage extends beyond share price.<\/p>\n

The industry watched Jaguar. It learned nothing.<\/p>\n

The Jony Ive Problem<\/h3>\n

Ferrari\u2019s decision to hand creative authority over the Luce to Jony Ive and Marc Newson, of LoveFrom was architecturally revealing before the first sketch was drawn.<\/p>\n

Ive is the world\u2019s most consequential democratiser of design. His life\u2019s work \u2014 the iMac, the iPhone, the iPod \u2014 made technology beautiful and accessible to billions simultaneously. His design philosophy is oriented toward inclusion, clarity, and the removal of barriers between people and products.<\/p>\n

Ferrari\u2019s mythology is built on the precise opposite: inaccessibility, theatre, the visceral beauty of a machine that exists outside the rules of polite, considered design.<\/p>\n

These are not merely different aesthetics. They are opposing philosophical positions on what design is for.<\/p>\n

The result \u2014 compared to a Honda Accord, an Apple Store minivan, and a luxury toaster \u2014 was not a failure of execution. It was a failure of architectural logic. When you hire the world\u2019s greatest democratiser to design the world\u2019s most exclusive object, the outcome is predictable before the first sketch is drawn.<\/p>\n

Ferrari shares fell 6.27% in Milan trading, wiping approximately \u00a33 billion in market cap. Analyst Anthony Dick at Oddo BHF called it \u201cby far the sharpest reaction we\u2019ve seen for a car design.\u201d Analyst Pierre-Olivier Essig wrote simply: \u201cWe are lost in translation with Ferrari\u2019s new strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are not reactions to a car. They are reactions to a mythology decision.<\/p>\n

The Upmarket Trap Closing In<\/h3>\n

To understand why Ferrari made this decision, you have to understand the pressure every luxury brand is now under.<\/p>\n

As contemporary and premium brands \u2014 empowered by advanced supply chains and accessible manufacturing \u2014 increasingly replicate the visual codes of luxury, the aesthetic distance that once separated true luxury from premium has eroded. Every brand looks expensive now. The visual vocabulary of luxury is no longer defensible on aesthetics alone.<\/p>\n

Ferrari looked at this landscape, at inevitable electrification, at a new generation of wealthy buyers with different loyalties, and made a decision that prioritised relevance over mythology. It hired the most famous product designer in the world to build a car for people who are less concerned with what a Ferrari was than what a Ferrari can be for them.<\/p>\n

That sentence is the problem. The moment a luxury brand designs for people less concerned with what it was, it has begun dismantling the architecture of desire that made it valuable.<\/p>\n

Some will point to the Ford Mustang Mach-E as proof that heritage brands can absorb mythology extension. In 2024, the Mach-E outsold the gas-powered Mustang by 17.6%. By Q2 2025, the gas Mustang had reclaimed its sales lead as Mach-E sales fell 19.1% year-on-year. More fundamentally, Ford is a volume brand. The Mustang is a popular performance car. Ferrari is a mythology brand whose entire valuation rests on symbolic distance and irrational desire. These are categorically different mechanisms. What works for Ford is architecturally dangerous for Ferrari.<\/p>\n

Herm\u00e8s understood this. When the same pressure tightened, Herm\u00e8s deepened scarcity, controlled distribution more rigorously, and leaned harder into institutional myth-making. Revenue growth that consistently outpaces peers who chose differently is not coincidence. It is the commercial proof of mythology discipline.<\/p>\n

Ferrari had that discipline. The Luce suggests it may have lost it.<\/p>\n

What This Means for Founders Building Luxury Brands Today<\/h3>\n

The Ferrari and Jaguar failures carry a lesson that reaches far beyond automotive strategy. It is most immediately actionable for founders at the beginning of their luxury brand journey \u2014 precisely because they are making architecture decisions before they have mythology to lose.<\/p>\n

The strategic question every brand must answer before any significant decision is not whether it will grow the business or reach a new audience. It is whether it protects and deepens the mythology.<\/p>\n

Ferrari had the mythology. It had the scarcity. It had institutional heritage no competitor could replicate. What it lacked, at the moment of the Luce decision, was the architectural discipline to refuse a commercially attractive option that mythology coherence should have made unthinkable.<\/p>\n

That discipline \u2014 knowing what a brand can afford symbolically, not just financially \u2014 is not instinctive. It is not inherited with the badge or the founding story. It must be built deliberately, tested against real decisions, and maintained under commercial pressure.<\/p>\n

The brands building luxury today have one advantage Ferrari did not: the pattern is clearly visible before they have built enough mythology to lose.<\/p>\n

The question is whether they are paying attention.<\/p>\n

Abhay Gupta<\/a>\u00a0is the Indian Luxury Strategist, Founder and Chairman of\u00a0<\/em>Luxury Connect,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Luxury Connect Business School.\u00a0He works with luxury founders globally on brand architecture, mythology building, and strategic positioning<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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