Calefato, Patrizia
Luxury : fashion, lifestyles and excess - London Bloomsbury Academic 2014 - 127 pages
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, Luxury 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.
9780857853301 9780857853325 9780857853332
Fashion--Social aspects
Luxury--Social aspects
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects
Luxuries--Social aspects
DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Retail
306.3 / CAL
Luxury : fashion, lifestyles and excess - London Bloomsbury Academic 2014 - 127 pages
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, Luxury 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.
9780857853301 9780857853325 9780857853332
Fashion--Social aspects
Luxury--Social aspects
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects
Luxuries--Social aspects
DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Retail
306.3 / CAL