Patrizia Calefato

Luxury (eBook, ePUB)

Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess
Übersetzer: Adams, Lisa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857853332
• Artikelnr.: 40408770

Autorenporträt

Patrizia Calefato is Professor of Sociology of Culture in the Political Science Department at Bari University Aldo Moro (Italy). She is the author of Fashion as Cultural Translation: Signs, Images, Narratives (2021) and Luxury. Fashion, Lifestyles and Excess (2014).