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 app...

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1. Verfasser: Calefato, Patrizia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Italian
Veröffentlicht: London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung: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 e ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 116 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857853325
0857853325
9781306729819
1306729815

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