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Deluxe : how luxury lost its luster / Dana Thomas.
Lippincott Library HD9999.L852 T46 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Dana, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Luxury goods industry.
- Physical Description:
- 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Thomas, the style and cultural reporter for "Newsweek," takes a hard-hitting look at the world of new luxury, and argues that globalization and corporate greed have ensured that old-time manufacturing has bowed to sweatshops and wild profits to produce mediocre merchandise.
- Contents:
- I: An industry is born
- Group mentality
- Going global
- II: Stars get in your eyes
- The sweet smell of success
- It's in the bag
- The needle and the damage done
- III: Going mass
- Faux Amis
- What now?
- New luxury.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594201295
- 1594201293
- OCLC:
- 87395114
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