Luxury

Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess

Patrizia Calefato, Lisa Adams

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
10 April 2014

Semiotics & semiology; Material culture; Fashion & society; Travel & holiday

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 students and scholars across a range of fashion studies, cultural studies and sociology, and anyone interested in the power and allure of luxury today.

By: Patrizia Calefato
Translated by: Lisa Adams
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 237g
ISBN: 9780857853318
ISBN 10: 0857853317
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 10 April 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 luxury. -- Djurdja Bartlett, author of FashionEast: the Spectre That Haunted Socialism, and editor of volume 9 of Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Senior Research Fellow, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.