Luxury - Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess

Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day. This groundbreaking text examines luxury and its relationship with desire, status, consumption and economic value, exploring why luxury remains prominent even in the context of a global recession.Using approaches from cultural studies, semiotic research and aesthetics, presents a wide range of case studies including urban space and new technologies, travel, interior design, cars, fashion ads and jewellery to explore what luxury represents, and why, in the contemporary world. The book will be essential reading for students and scholars across a range of fashion studies, cultural studies and sociology, and anyone interested in the power and allure of luxury today.>

Product details

• Authors: Patrizia Calefato, Calefato Patrizia
• Assisted by: Lisa Adams (Translation), Adams Lisa (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9780857853318
• ISBN: 978-0-85785-331-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Travel; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, Travel & holiday, Fashion & society, Material Culture, Travel and holiday, Semiotics / semiology, Cultural studies: dress and society