Deluxe

A hard hitting behind the scenes look at the luxury fashion industry today There was a time when luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty Luxury wasn t simply a product, it was a lifestyle, one that denoted a history of tradition, superior quality and offered a pampered buying experience Today s luxury marketplace would be virtually unrecognizable to its founders Gone are the family owned businesses dedicated to integrity and quality the industry is now run by multi billion dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising and above all, profits Handcrafted goods are practically extinct, and almost all manufacturing has been outsourced to large factories in such places as China, where your expensive brand name handbag is being assembled right next to one from a mass market label that will cost substantially less Dana Thomas, a journalist who has covered style and the luxury business for The Washington Post, Newsweek and The New York Times Magazine from Paris for the past fifteen years, digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci and Burberry don t want us to know Traveling from the laboratories in Grasse, where the ingredients for Christian Dior and Prada perfumes are produced, to the crowded factories in China, where workers glue together Made in Italy bags by the thousands, Thomas explores the whole of today s high end shopping experience to answer some pressing questions What is the new definition of luxury when advertising for this lifestyle is targeted mainly toward the mass market What are we paying for when quality has given way to quantity Can integrity survive in a corporate culture driven to meet regular growth and profit projections Is luxury still the best that money can buy Free Download [ Deluxe ] author [ Dana Thomas ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr a good read piles of research, interviews with the best of the luxury cast e , investigative journalism, and fashion magazine luxury brand wallowing in.Ten Things I can now argue for against 1 Hermes bags, luggage, and scarves for 2 Chanel No 5 for 3 fake handbags against 4 child labor, human trafficking, the black market against 5 Louis Vuitton against 6 the conglomeration of luxury brands against 7 Japanese cultural values with respect to luxury goods against 8 architect Peter a good read piles of research, interviews with the best of the luxury cast e , investigative journalism, and fashion magazine luxury brand wallowing in.Ten Things I can now arg...Very near the end of the book, Thomas sums up her book through the eyes of a friend I see where you re going with this luxury companies have gone mass and along the way forgotten their original mission, which was to provide the rich with truly exceptional products The friend continues, So here s what I want to know What do the rich do now This is not what I wanted to know What I wanted to know was, why should I care what the rich do now, or ever did Thomas s entire thesis seems to be lux Very near the end of the book, Thomas sums up her book through the eyes of a friend I see where you re going with this luxury companies have gone mass and along the way forgotten their original mission, which was to provide the rich with truly exceptional products The friend continues, So here s what I want to know What do the rich do now This is not what I wanted to know What I wanted to know was, why should I ...I should not have read Deluxe immediately after having read Richistan I m a huge fan of coupling two similar books, it s like peanut butter and jelly, or whiskey and my mouth, but this combination was unintended or at least unconscious and these true tales of Excess and Image left me in a bizarre, contradictory paradox of feeling both rich and poor Rich in Spirit Poor in Reality.If there ever was a pair of prissy ...Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography cclapcenter.com I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP it is not being reprinted here illegally I confess, I know barely anything about the world of high fashion, and so of course especially know nothing about the highest end of it all, the so called luxury brands like Prada, Gucci and ...Well researched and written, but I was hoping forcriticism of the industry itself, especially in regards to cost cutting and the declining quality of these goods I got the sense that as a fashion writer, the auther ...This book I had wanted to read since it came out, and it was great Humorously, not long after I read it, I saw that it was for sale at the Kitson warehouse sale, alongside marked down Habitual jeans and Michael Kors wedge sandals in an unheated, hangar like space where no, I didn t buy anything though I did score at the similar Lisa Kline sale On this same trip, I also saw the awesome Taka...4.5 stars, rounded up because this is a must read for those who believe in the transformative power of shopping and those who don t for people who consider themselves unaffected by advertising and for those who notice the dramatic decrease in the quality of clothing they buy.A quotation I found which didn t make it into the book, but encapsulates the message of at least a large portion of it comes from Jean Louis Dumas, the late chairman of the Herm s group from 1978 until 2006 We don t ha 4.5 stars, rounded up because this is a must read for those who believe in the transformative power of shopping and those who don t for people who consider themselves unaffected by advertising and for those who notice the dramatic decrease in the quality of clothing they buy.A quotation I found which didn t make it into the book, but encapsulates the message of at least a large portion of it comes from Jean Louis Dumas, the late chairman of the Herm s group from 1978 until 2006 We don t have a policy of image, we have a polic...It wasn t that I didn t like this book, but that I didn t really learn anything that I didn t already know.But, on the plus side, the author was very factual about what was going on in the world of luxury I didn t feel that it had a overwhelming biased bent I thought she would point out repeatedly how silly it is to spend 2K on a bag that everyone owns that s covered in a logo hello, it s free advertising, what are we girls A billboard I think not I obviously would have berated the logo It wasn t that I didn t like...I want to beinterested in fashion than I am I want to care I want to think it s interesting I want to oh, hell this book had nothing much for me, so back to the library with it.In the beginning there were clothes They were at your service they performed for you, practical, reliable, appropriate Still, we are thoughtful creatures, driven to art and individuality and so clothes became fashion, and eventually, fashion became couture No longer strictly practical, this new rank of clothes represented somethingthan just a cover They were luxury costly fabric impeccably tailored to be durable, classic, and stylish But what is luxury now Dana Thomas s book Del In the beginning there were clothes They were at your service they performed for you, practical, reliable, appropriate Still, we are thoughtful creatures, driven to art and individuality and so clothes became fashion, and eventually, fashion became couture No longer strictly practical, this new rank of clothes represented somethingthan just a cover They were luxury costly fabric impeccably tailored to be durable, classic, and stylish But what is luxury now Dana Thomas s book Deluxe How Luxury Lost Its Luster is the culmination of several tears of work, collaged journalism, and covert interviews This sometimes brutal chronicle of the luxury fashion industry is both history and commentary and invites a re evaluation of all things haute.Primarily a Eurocentric account, Deluxe moves through the history of luxury brands from their humble beginnings in France and Italy to the global conglomerates they have become From family...

• English
• 14 July 2017
Dana Thomas
• Hardcover
• 384 pages
• 1594201293
• Dana Thomas
• Deluxe