Luxury: Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess

by Patrizia Calefato

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857853317
• ISBN13: 9780857853318
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"