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Luxury: Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess
Patrizia Calefato
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Description for Luxury: Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess
Paperback.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857853318
SKU
V9780857853318
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Ref
99-5
About Patrizia Calefato
Patrizia Calefato is Associate Professor at the Università degli studi di Bari, Italy. Lisa Adams is lecturer in English at the University of Bari, Italy.
Reviews for Luxury: Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess
Luxury is so much more than any current It bag with a designer name on it. As a distinguished Italian scholar Patrizia Calefato shows in this seminal book, luxury is about excess in its purest form. Calefato draws on various, and often unexpected, guises of historical and contemporary luxury, in order to establish her unique analysis of the phenomenon of ... Read more