Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Thomas, Dana

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A hard-hitting behind-the-scenes look at how luxury fashion went global, revealing manufacturing...
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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Thomas, Dana

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

$30.92

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

$30.92
Author: Dana Thomas
Format: Paperback
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A hard-hitting behind-the-scenes look at how luxury fashion went global, revealing manufacturing secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don't want you to know

"Fascinating . . . The story of luxury goods today is really about globalization, capitalization, class, and culture."--Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

"What Fast Food Nation did for food service, this book does for fashion."--Los Angeles Times

Luxury was once available only to the rarefied, aristocratic world of old money. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations like LVMH, Kering, and Gucci, that focus on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry with this uncompromising look behind the glossy facade, to ask: How did luxury lose its luster?

From the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

Author: Dana Thomas
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780143113706
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/24/2008 pg. 24

About the Author
Dana Thomas is the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Gods and Kings and the New York Times bestseller Deluxe. She began her career writing for the Style section of The Washington Post, and she has served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Style section and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Architectural Digest. In 2016, the French Minister of Culture named Thomas a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. She lives in Paris.

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