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Deluxe : how luxury lost its luster
- Title
- Deluxe : how luxury lost its luster / Dana Thomas.
- Author
- Thomas, Dana, 1964-
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- 375 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Dana Thomas explores the whole of today's high-end shopping experience. She has travelled all over the world to interview corporate heads and factory workers, old-money, old-luxury clients and new luxury-obsessed middle-market consumers, and she paints a picture of today's New Luxury. With Deluxe, she delivers a look at the real world behind the glossy magazines and red-carpet couture and asks: How did luxury lose its luster?"--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-362) and index.
- Contents
- 1. An industry is born -- 2. Group mentality -- 3. Going global -- 4. Stars get in your eyes -- 5. The sweet smell of success -- 6. It's in the bag -- 7. The needle and the damage done -- 8. Going mass -- 9. Faux Amis -- 10. What now? -- 11. New luxury.
- ISBN
- 9781594201295
- 1594201293
- LCCN
- 2007006166
- OCLC
- ocm87395114
- 87395114
- SCSB-9615878
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries