Luxury

Retail Luxury Strategy: Assembling Charisma through Art and Magic

by Delphine Dion

Negozi di Lusso a Parigi. Esperienze sacralizzate, miticche e profane, dans

by Delphine Dion

In Parigi-Milano, la moda e la città

"On Luxury [Jean-Michel Frank],"AA Files no. 58

by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

Review of Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank: The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haute-Monde... more Review of Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank: The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haute-Monde in the Art Deco Period (Rizzoli, 2008)

7 words and a logo: Does a brand shape a destination?

by Alvaro HIDALGO

Branding Tourism destinations Branding Tourism destinations

How Luxury & Tourism transform economic unsettlement into steady growth

by Alvaro HIDALGO

Luxury, Tourism & Economic growth Luxury, Tourism & Economic growth

If Small is Beautiful.....Exclusive beats it.

by Alvaro HIDALGO

Luxury as a factor to set carrying capacity .TALC Luxury as a factor to set carrying capacity .TALC

Why Luxury brands aim non-core sectors?

by Alvaro HIDALGO

Extension of Luxury brands to Tourism facilities Extension of Luxury brands to Tourism facilities

Luxury, Sports and Developments

by Alvaro HIDALGO

Luxury, Sports and Residential Tourism Developments Luxury, Sports and Residential Tourism Developments

Cardenales en miniatura: la imagen del poder a través del clero capitular cordobés / Cardinals in miniature: the image of power through the capitular clergy of Cordoba

by Antonio J. Díaz Rodríguez

Publicado en "Historia y Genealogía", 1 (2011), pp. 11-21.

La casa y la capilla fueron instrumentos idóneos para la transmisión de una imagen de poder y privilegio al resto de... more La casa y la capilla fueron instrumentos idóneos para la transmisión de una imagen de poder y privilegio al resto de la sociedad castellana en época moderna. Los miembros del clero capitular jugaron un papel fundamental en este sentido dentro de las estrategias de ascenso y emulación de sus familias, y eso es lo que este artículo pretende mostrar a través del ejemplo del Cabildo de la Catedral de Córdoba.

Las casas del Deán don Juan de Córdoba: lujo y clientela en torno a un capitular del Renacimiento| Dean don Juan de Córdoba's houses: luxury and clients around a …

by Antonio J. Díaz Rodríguez

Publicado en "Hispania Sacra", 123 (2009), pp. 77-104.

A través de varias fuentes referentes a don Juan Fernández de Córdoba, deán y canónigo de la catedral de Córdoba, abad... more A través de varias fuentes referentes a don Juan Fernández de Córdoba, deán y canónigo de la catedral de Córdoba, abad y señor de Rute, se pretende recrear un ejemplo de vida cotidiana de las élites y de la red de vínculos que conformaban la sociedad cordobesa del siglo XVI.

Through different sources relating to don Juan Fernández de Córdoba, dean and canon of the cathedral of Cordova, abbot and lord of Rute, it tries to recreate an example of elite’s daily life and the mesh of links which formed the cordovan society of the 16th century.

Cette collection de prêt-à-porter est-elle un succès ? Le regard des griffes internationales sur la performance

by Pierre-Luc Emond

MSc dissertation , 2007

Review of: Linda Levy Peck, Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth‐Century England

by Brian Cowan

Review of: Linda Levy Peck, Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth Century England, (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005); Journal of Modern History 79:3 (September 2007): 664-666.

At the heart of Consuming Splendor is an argument for the importance of the seventeenth century in understanding the... more At the heart of Consuming Splendor is an argument for the importance of the seventeenth century in understanding the origins of modern consumer society. Lurking in the shadows of the same work is the spectre of the eighteenth century, a period long lauded by its historians as being the birthplace of consumerism. Linda Levy Peck does not dispute the larger scale and scope of eighteenth-century consumerism, but she does demonstrate with impressive detail how the institutional and the cultural foundations for these developments had already been laid in the preceding century. Not since the publication of Joan Thirsk’s 1975 Ford lectures as Economic Policy and Projects: The Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England (Oxford, 1978) has such a sustained argument for the origins of consumer society in the late Tudor and early Stuart era been made.

Luxury Fashion: The role of innovation as a key contributing factor in the development of luxury fashion goods and sustainable fashion design.

by Angela Finn

Event Title: Fashion and Luxury: Between heritage and innovation. 13th Annual Conference of the International Federation of Fashion Technology Institutes.
Event Location: Paris, France.
Event Dates: 11th - 14th April, 2011
Event Type: Conference

Please Note: I am frequently asked to upload a copy of this paper so that people can read it....please note that I am only permitted to upload one copy of this paper and it is available here http://eprints.qut.edu.au/40985/

The pdf which is uploaded on academia.edu is a copy of the conference programme and not a copy of my full paper.

Luxury is a quality that is difficult to define as the historical concept of luxury appears to be both dynamic and... more Luxury is a quality that is difficult to define as the historical concept of luxury appears to be both dynamic and culturally specific. The everyday definition explains a ‘luxury’ in relation to a necessity: a luxury (product or service) is defined as something that consumers want rather than need. However, the growth of global markets has seen a boom in what are now referred to as ‘luxury brands’. This branding of products as luxury has resulted in a change in the way consumers understand luxury goods and services. In their attempts to characterize a luxury brand, Fionda & Moore in their article “The anatomy of a Luxury Brand” summarize a range of critical conditions that are in addition to product branding “... including product and design attributes of quality, craftsmanship and innovative, creative and unique products” (Fionda & Moore, 2009). For the purposes of discussing fashion design however, quality and craftsmanship are inseparable while creativity and innovation exist under different conditions.
The terms ‘creative’ and ‘innovative’ are often used inter-changeably and are connected with most descriptions of the design process, defining ‘design’ and ‘fashion’ in many cases. Christian Marxt and Fredrik Hacklin identify this condition in their paper “Design, product development, innovation: all the same in the end?”(Marxt & Hacklin, 2005) and suggest that design communities should be aware that the distinction between these terms, whilst once quite definitive, is becoming narrow to a point where they will mean the same thing. In relation to theory building in the discipline this could pose significant problems. Brett Richards (2003) identifies innovation as different from creativity in that innovation aims to transform and implement rather than simply explore and invent. Considering this distinction, in particular relation to luxury branding, may affect the way in which design can contribute to a change in the way luxury fashion goods might be perceived in a polarised fashion market, namely suggesting that ‘luxury’ is what consumers need rather than the ‘pile it high, sell it cheap’ fashion that the current market dynamic would indicate they want.
This paper attempts to explore the role of innovation as a key contributing factor in luxury concepts, in particular the relationship between innovation and creativity, the conditions which enable innovation, the role of craftsmanship in innovation and design innovation in relation to luxury fashion products. An argument is presented that technological innovation can be demonstrated as a common factor in the development of luxury fashion product and that the connection between designer and maker will play an important role in the development of luxury fashion goods for a sustainable fashion industry.