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The Harvard Sweatshirt: Too Cool for School Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Maria Chammah
Princess Diana had an affection for sweatshirts. One of the most iconic was a cowl-neck Harvard sweatshirt she wore to the gym. This piece was so critical that the Ivy League university recreated i...
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Fiat Fashion: An Exploratory Study on the Construction of a Price Index for Luxury Fashion Sold at Auction Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Katherine Greder, Stephen Parry, Van Dyk Lewis
This study situates fashion history in the context of art market research to explore the assetization of luxury clothing. Art markets and the luxury fashion industry developed in tandem and yet the...
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‘Net Zero’ Luxury: Guy Debord, Burberry and the Spectacle of (Hypo)Crisis Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Ming Lim
This article critically analyses the “Net Zero” narrative and its implications for luxury brands. Framing the narrative through Guy Debord’s Theory of the Spectacle, it is argued that a Debordian r...
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Authentic vs. Hubristic Proud Consumers: Two Forms of Status Orientation Underlying New Luxury Consumption Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 B. Shi, J. M. Shi, Z. D. Zheng, Y. Q. Zhong
Incorporating motivation for two forms of social status—prestige and dominance, this research examines the influence of authentic and hubristic pride on consumers’ preferences and purchases of new ...
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The Visual Luxury Consumer: Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Maison Schiaparelli Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 John Armitage
The luxury consumer is one of the most celebrated concepts in what is known as luxury brand management. However, this study of the associations between the visual, luxury, and the consumer offers n...
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The Evolution of Luxury Consumption and Conceptualization: A Synthetic Review Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Jungkun Park, Hoang Tran Phuoc Mai Le, EunPyo Hong
This study aims to comprehend the main themes of luxury publications from 1998 to March 2021 through a holistic review of luxury industry-related papers. To face a change in the post-pandemic, the ...
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Consuming to Cope: The Luxury of Consuming in the COVID-19 Pandemic Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Yasmin K. Sekhon Dhillon
Set in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic this paper examines the consumption choices of participants during the pandemic, presenting an exploratory study of how consumption was used as a means o...
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Confronting climate crisis through corporate narratives: the fairy tale in LVMH’s 2020 and 2021 social and environmental responsibility reports Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Annamma Joy, Joanne Roberts, Bianca Grohmann, Camilo Peña
Situated in the context of the climate crisis this research examines the LVMH Corporation’s 2020 and 2021 Social and Environmental Responsibility Reports through the lens of the narrative structure...
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Globalized Luxury Fashion is the Crisis: Kanye West, a structure of feeling, and the case of Louis Vuitton Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 John Armitage
Globalization, the process of communication and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide, is a central concept in the study of luxury and fashion, both as innovative activity ...
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Re-Defining Luxury in the Airport’s Transitory Environment during the Post-Covid Era Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Debbie Coney Pinder
The airport provides a unique environment for luxury. The transitory airport space is driven by notions of luxury, leisure, pleasure, and the exotic; they are places of possibility and desire. Sinc...
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The Impact of Musical Fit and Sound Design on Consumers’ Perception of a Luxury Car Ad Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Joanne Pei Sze Yeoh, Min Gin Han, Charles Spence
Abstract A study is reported that was designed to investigate the influence of various kinds of sonic accompaniment on consumers’ perception of a high-end luxury sports car. Using a between-participants experimental design, groups of 40 participants viewed a short car ad. The groups heard either classical music, pop music, sound effects, or listened in silence. The results revealed that participants
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The Acculturation Process of New Products through Known Products. Interpreting Ethical Certification of Diamonds through the Lens of Organic Food Produced in Italy Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Armano Linda
Abstract This study aims to highlight the use of the peculiar interconnection between two different production sectors, specifically the diamond and the food sectors, in order to show the cultural interpretations given to the certification of diamonds presented by consumers. These latter, while buying Canadian diamonds, have little knowledge of the real working conditions of miners in mines in Canada
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Creative Direction Succession in Luxury Fashion: The Illusion of Immortality at Chanel and Alexander McQueen Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Juliana Luna Mora, Jess Berry
Abstract This article examines how luxury fashion houses Chanel and Alexander McQueen have mobilized the “spirit” of their founding designers to become part of the commercial brand’s founding myth and vocabulary. Pierre Bourdieu highlighted how within the field of fashion, the creative vision of the designer which should be irreplaceable is in fact replaceable where their products and business can
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The Idea of Luxury: Revisited Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Christopher J. Berry
Abstract My book The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation was published in 1994 (still in print). While what follows is bound to be self-referential and also presumptuous in that it is premised on there being some interest in these reflections on the book a quarter of a century plus later. The partial defense is that the book has been extensively cited and widely acknowledged as
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Gestalt-Switch of Luxury Products: Exploring Pitfalls of Inconsistent Value Expressions in Conspicuous Consumption Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Mario D. Schultz, Peter Seele
Abstract This study explores the ethicality of displaying luxury items in social interactions, integrating conspicuous consumption theory and functional theories of attitudes. We conceptualize the phenomenon of changing ethical perceptions (gestalt-switch) toward conspicuous consumption, building on data from two quantitative studies (N = 280). Study 1 employs ‘functional theories of attitudes’ (value-expressive
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Luxury, Voluptuousity, Levinas: on Jan Steen and Giovanni Segantini Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 John Armitage
Abstract This article deals with the concepts of luxury and voluptuousity, the abundant and the sensual, and their position in the history of art, for luxury and voluptuosity are rarely mentioned in single works of art by name. The article is an encounter with the history of art, particularly as it is manifested in two paintings that do at least reference luxury, the Golden Age Dutch artist Jan Steen’s
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Introduction Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Thomaï Serdari
Published in Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2022)
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Introduction Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Thomaï Serdari
Published in Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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An Ueber to take your Brand to the next level Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Pablo D. Lopez Zadicoff, J. P. Kuehlwein
Published in Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2022)
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"Some of my Customers […] Take off Their Rolex Prior to a Client Meeting" Luxury Display at Work and the Social (Re)Construction of the Organizational Image Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Mario D. Schultz, Peter Seele
Abstract In this study, we follow-up on the social construction of an organizational image focusing on the role of luxury watches worn at work. In this way, we discuss the crucial role of employees' aesthetic appearance as a projector of organizational values to internal and external audiences. Drawing on the theoretical lenses of gestalt theory and the literature on aesthetics of labour, we examine
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Mediated Enjoyment- Representations of Luxury in the Web Discourse of Lifestyle Magazines Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Samuel André Alves Mateus
Abstract Luxury is a 913BE global industry spanning multiple categories according to the Boston Consulting Group, and it represents a major market worldwide, one that has registered a tremendous growth in the last decade. Brands have developed a significant presence in the digital space and consumers have, indeed, augmented their purchases in the online environment. Even though there are a few studies
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African luxury: aesthetics and politics Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Aida Sykes
(2022). African luxury: aesthetics and politics. Luxury. Ahead of Print.
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A New Luxury: Deconstructing Fashion’s Colonial Episteme Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Majdouline Elhichou
Abstract As fashion acts as a mirror of society, the crisis it is facing today reflects the same dynamics of the human and ecological crisis that is affecting the world as a whole. While questions of sustainability have come to occupy center stage in terms of thinking of ways that the fashion industry can help solve this larger societal crisis, all these discussions tend to remain addressed in a compartmentalized
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Making the Contemporary Art Market More Inclusive Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 David Brody
Abstract While there is extensive scholarship about how the art world devises, secures, and furthers, to use Pierre Bourdieu’s term, “distinction,” in this article I connect the Bourdieuian notion of taste to the luxury act of collecting art in the twenty-first century. I contend that collecting art is a luxury experience that bifurcates class and racial divides. The very act of collecting is a cultural
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Editorial Introduction Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Thomaï Serdari
(2021). Editorial Introduction. Luxury: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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When Eroticism Makes Luxury Fashion Brands Fly: Introducing the Construct of Eroticism, Providing a First Measurement and Rank of Luxury Fashion Brands Using a Newly Developed “Brand Erotic Index” Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Marc Paternot, Oliver Heil
Abstract This article introduces a new construct to the field of luxury research, namely eroticism. This construct is, to a limited degree, based on the extant knowledge as very little research seemingly exists on the construct which, otherwise, has been “around” for centuries. Next, the construct is operationalized, measured, and empirically validated. A newly developed index, the Brand Erotic Index
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Review of Péter Berta, Materializing Difference, Consumer Culture, Politics and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, University of Toronto Press, 2019 Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Adelina Stefan
(2021). Review of Péter Berta, Materializing Difference, Consumer Culture, Politics and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, University of Toronto Press, 2019. Luxury: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 69-71.
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Post-Pandemic Scentsploration with Barbara Herman, Founder of Eris Parfums and Author of Scent and Subversion Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Ryan Day Castle
Abstract A conversation between two perfume industry leaders, Ryan Day Castle and Barbara Herman, highlights the cultural value of scent as a communication vehicle, debates the specificities of the sense of smell and its impact on human emotions, and examines the fragrance industry from a new perspective.
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Cannabis: The Uncertain Path from Agricultural Commodity to Luxury Consumable Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-16 Avery N. Gilbert
Abstract Widespread legalization is turning cannabis into big business. As cultivation, manufacturing, and retail sales expand in size and sophistication, the industry appears to be evolving into a commodity market. This paper reviews the state of cannabis with respect to factors that contribute to the success of other luxury consumables such as wine and perfume. While many of these factors are available
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Editorial Introduction Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
(2021). Editorial Introduction. Luxury: Vol. 8, Special Issue: Luxury’s Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice; Guest Editor: Catherine Kovesi, pp. 1-3.
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Luxury’s Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice: An Introduction to a Special Edition Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
(2021). Luxury’s Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice: An Introduction to a Special Edition. Luxury: Vol. 8, Special Issue: Luxury’s Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice; Guest Editor: Catherine Kovesi, pp. 1-6.
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Gracious Hospitable City Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
(2021). Gracious Hospitable City. Luxury: Vol. 8, Special Issue: Luxury’s Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice; Guest Editor: Catherine Kovesi, pp. 1-2.
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Gigi Bon, the Rhinoceros, Venice, and the Unbearable Heaviness of Being. Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
Abstract This article analyses the oeuvre of the Venetian artist Gigi Bon whose distinctive attitude to her city and the rhinoceros inspired this special issue and the exhibition which preceded it. To enter the Studio d’Arte “Mirabilia” of Gigi Bon is to be introduced to a world of sculptures, prints, and objects of wonder in the tradition of the sixteenth-century Wünderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities
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One of a Kind: Clara the Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-Century Venice and the Tale of a Missing Horn Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
Abstract In 1741, a Dutch sea captain succeeded in transporting a live female Indian rhino calf from north-east India to his home town of Leiden. Named “Clara,” she was only the fifth Indian rhinoceros to be seen on European soil since the fall of the Roman empire and the only rhinoceros on the continent in the mid-eighteenth century. From 1741 to 1758, Douwemout Van der Meer displayed Clara across
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Clara in Qatar: A New Life for a Meissen Porcelain Rhinoceros Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
Abstract The Orientalist Museum in Qatar has a small, but important, Meissen porcelain statue of a rhinoceros. This rhino is none other than Clara, the same rhinoceros which toured Venice in 1751, and enjoyed a career spanning some twenty years touring Europe. She became so famous that she was commemorated in art of a variety of media and is represented in the two famous paintings by Pietro Longhi
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Rhino Horns and Scraps of Unicorn: The Sense of Touch and the Consumption of Rhino Horns in Early Modern Iberia Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
Abstract In early modern Iberia, rhino horns were widely consumed by high-ranking persons. Rhino horns were often confused with the horns of the legendary unicorn, which were said to be able to transform poison into water with their touch. Consumption of rhino horns is often explained either by their ascribed prophylactic properties or by their use as the symbolic representation items for social manifestation
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The Last Sacrifice: The Potential of a Revived Venetian World Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
(2021). The Last Sacrifice: The Potential of a Revived Venetian World. Luxury: Vol. 8, Special Issue: Luxury’s Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice; Guest Editor: Catherine Kovesi, pp. 105-116.
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Re-Inventing Magnificence: Gaining Status from Contribution Not Consumption Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
Abstract Most luxury consumers link rarity to higher status. It may be a luxury car, yacht, haute-couture fashion and accessories, prestige holiday destinations such as Venice, or purchasing “exotic” wildlife products. For some, legal luxury is not enough to fulfil their status need and they take a step into a world of illegal consumption; this is the case for the buyers of rhino horn in Viet Nam.
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The Night the Rhinos Came Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
(2021). The Night the Rhinos Came. Luxury: Vol. 8, Special Issue: Luxury’s Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice; Guest Editor: Catherine Kovesi, pp. 163-164.
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Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Early Modern Italy Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-14
(2021). Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Early Modern Italy. Luxury: Vol. 8, Special Issue: Luxury’s Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice; Guest Editor: Catherine Kovesi, pp. 165-168.
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Editorial Introduction Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Jonathan Faiers
(2019). Editorial Introduction. Luxury: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 201-202.
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Distinction by Indistinction: Luxury, Stealth, Minimalist Fashion Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 YeSeung Lee
Abstract Setting out from the Simmelian premise that fashion is the site of tension between conformity and distinction, this essay enquires into the element of distinction heightened in minimalist luxury fashion. Minimalist luxury reveals the inherently divisive nature of fashion, putting distance between “us”—the nonchalant, productive, and moral—and “them”—the vulgar, useless, and amoral. Its seeming
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The Globalisation of Luxury Fashion: The Case of Gucci Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 John Armitage, Joanne Roberts
Abstract This article offers the reader an encounter with crucial writings on the globalisation of luxury fashion. In so doing, it introduces an original conceptualisation of luxury fashion. The historical meaning of the globalisation of luxury fashion from Roman times up until the present period is examined. The globalisation of Gucci, the Italian luxury fashion brand specialising in leather goods
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“If We Want Things to Stay as They Are, Things Will Have to Change.” Covid, Couture and the 1% Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Jonathan Faiers
Abstract The current pandemic is demanding a radical reconceptualization of fashion. In the context of an unprecedented economic decline, the collapse of physical fashion retailing and a fundamental interrogation of previous clothing consumption patterns, can the same be said of haute couture luxury fashion? Taking the current couture season’s promotional films as a starting point, this article discusses
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Editorial Introduction Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Jonathan Faiers
(2019). Editorial Introduction. Luxury: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 137-138.
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Recycling Luxury: An Introduction Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Marie Tavinor
(2019). Recycling Luxury: An Introduction. Luxury: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 139-143.
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“Broken and Useless”. Notes on Fashion and Textile Recycling and Repurposing in 18th Century Venice Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Isabella Campagnol
Abstract In 18th century Venice, a city renowned for its unparalleled opulence, judicious recycling and repurposing of luxury textiles, was, ironically, the norm. Archival documents routinely list elegant, but “worn out” items, as in the 1773 inventory of Marina Eirardi, where a number of broken and “useless” clothing items are mentioned, and where is carefully described what remains of a precious
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The Virtue of Auction Houses Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Sarah Fergusson
Abstract ‘The Virtue of Auction Houses’ shows auction houses to be important centres of recycling using philosophical theory combined with first-hand experience. The notion of ‘waste’ is explored – luxury items lying unworn and unused. This has moral implications and negates our ability to understand these objects. The auction house gives voice to these pieces once again. But why should we take the
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Liminal Luxury: Establishing the Value of Fancy Dress Costume Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Benjamin Wild
Abstract The study and contextualisation of one early twentieth-century fancy dress costume from The John Bright Collection, London, provides an opportunity to challenge the socialised assumption that fancy dress costume is a short-lived, skill-less and superficial spectacle. Like many examples of this sartorial form, the Good Luck dress examined here shares characteristics with clothing termed, with
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The case study of a “tinkered” tapestry Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Pascal-François Bertrand
Abstract Tapestry is a luxury item before being a work of art. By the very fact of its function, tapestry undergoes transformations since all time. We cut or add borders, we cut large format tapestry into several pieces, and then, we re-sew them, all of this acts to put them to the dimension of surfaces that the tapestry must cover. This presentation would like to dwell on a particular case of a "tinkered"
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Fur and Exotic Animal Materials: A Model for Luxury Non-Animal Embellishment Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Naomi Bailey-Cooper
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Not Knowing as Luxury: Strategic Nonknowledge and the Demand for a “Sportbrake” Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Matthias Gross
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Re-Thinking Luxury in the Museum Fashion Exhibition Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Nigel Lezama
Despite the ever-growing profit margins of the luxury sector, market saturation and the fashion cycle make it difficult for consumers to determine the value of, and for producers to imbue value in,...
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An Exploration of Children’s Understanding of Luxury: A Visual Approach Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Yasmin Sekhon Dhillon, Joanne Roberts
In this article we investigate children’s perception and visual understanding of luxury and luxury brands. We explore what luxury means to children and whether their understanding of luxury is base...
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Jean Dubuffet’s Alchemy: High Pastes for High Tastes Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Rachel E. Perry
Jean Dubuffet made his name and fortune in 1946 with Mirobolus, Macadam et Cie.: Hautes pâtes, a series of thick, high-relief paintings made of tar, asphalt, plaster and white lead, embellished wit...
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Space, Efficiency and Service: Luxury and Femininity in the Establishments of J. Lyons & Co (1895–1935) Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Lyanne Holcombe
This article examines the interrelationship of luxury and femininity in the historical case of J. Lyons & Co. Waitresses working for the company represented the widespread feminization of the West ...
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A Framework That Describes the Challenges of the High Jewelry Market in the US Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Thomaï Serdari,Jennifer Levy
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Social Media and Brand Loyalty: A Research Based on Luxury Consumers Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Sevilay Ulas, Zekiye Beril Akıncı Vural
It can be claimed that the concept of brand loyalty has a deeply rooted history similar to that of civilizations. How changes that are experienced in every area in the world reflect on the brand lo...
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Review of the Making Marvels Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Luxury (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Julia M. Puaschunder
The Making Marvels: Science & Splendor at the Courts of Europe exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York showcased almost 200 luxury highlights. Between 1550 and 1750, royal dynasties i...