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thinking about our increasingly immaterial technocultural conditions, with a unique focus on the context of art, design and media.
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unique focus on the context of art, design and media.
View article: Globalized Luxury Fashion is the Crisis: Kanye West, a structure of feeling, and the case of Louis Vuitton
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Globalization, the process of communication and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide, is a central concept in the study of luxury and fashion, both as innovative activity and guide to the future. This article offe…
View article: The pursuit of luxury as an act of transgression: Bataille, sovereignty, desire
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Through concepts such as the act of transgression, the idea of the pursuit of luxury can be radically transformed by reconsidering the work of the French philosopher Georges Bataille on sovereignty and desire within contemporary culture. T…
View article: Rethinking haute couture: Julien Fournié in the virtual worlds of the metaverse
Rethinking haute couture: Julien Fournié in the virtual worlds of the metaverse Open
This article deals with the concept and practice of haute couture, of the designing and making of high-quality fashion clothes, and haute couture's contemporary engagement with the virtual worlds of the ‘metaverse’, a shared virtual enviro…
View article: Luxury, Voluptuousity, Levinas: on Jan Steen and Giovanni Segantini
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This article deals with the concepts of luxury and voluptuousity, the abundant and the sensual, and their position in the history of art, for luxury and voluptuosity are rarely mentioned in single works of art by name. The article is an en…
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context of art, design and media.
View article: The Globalisation of Luxury Fashion: The Case of Gucci
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This article offers the reader an encounter with crucial writings on the globalisation of luxury fashion. In so doing, it introduces an original conceptualisation of luxury fashion. The historical meaning of the globalisation of luxury fas…
View article: Remembering Paul Virilio
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Paul Virilio, who passed away in 2018, was a significant figure in the study of cultural politics, as both pioneer and guide. This article prepares first-time readers for an encounter with Virilio’s critical thinking and essential writings…
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Cultural Politics editorial board member, who died on January 9, 2017, at the age of ninetyone, was one of the most important cultural and political theorists writing in English over the past fifty years.He had an astonishing span of analy…
View article: Luxury Fashion and Creativity: Change or Continuity?
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This chapter considers the role of creativity in the productionProduction and delivery of luxury fashion goods and services. The concept of creativityCreativity is closely aligned to the idea of luxury goods as rare and highly crafted, oft…
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Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2010)
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List of Tables1.1 Top 20 luxury goods companies 8 2.1 Best luxury global brands among Interbrand's top 100 global brands of 2014 34 2.2 Knowing luxury: from socio-cultural to market-based understandings
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The aim of this article is to introduce and examine the concept of the “spirit of luxury.” Accordingly, we commence by delineating the philosophical idea of luxury, emphasizing its discursive meaning, and contemplating its earliest histori…
View article: Luxury and Creativity: Exploration, Exploitation, or Preservation?
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IntroductionThe global market for luxury goods and services is expanding rapidly. Its value exceeded €850 billion in 2014, having grown at a rate of 7 percent on the previous year (D'Arpizio et al., 2014). This luxury market growth is acco…
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IntroductionThe global market for luxury goods and services is expanding rapidly. Its value exceeded €850 billion in 2014, having grown at a rate of 7 percent on the previous year (D'Arpizio et al., 2014). This luxury market growth is acco…
View article: The voluptuous self
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This essay, which focuses on the art of Tracey Emin, was written for Brand Art Sensation: A Mass Debate, a solo exhibition and public forum parodying celebrity art and luxury branding by Giulia Zaniol: 9th – 13th June 2015. The show, which…