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Luxury Studies 3.2 is out now!
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Luxury Studies 3.2 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to present Luxury Studies 3.2!

 

Issue 3.2 explores the tension between luxury as an exclusive phenomenon, emerging from artisanal craftsmanship and luxury branded products that originate from conglomerates.

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/luxury-studies

 

Aims & Scope

 

As a term which has made its way into everyday language, the idea of luxury has secured a place in contemporary society. Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal explores the many issues and debates surrounding the idea of luxury as a historical and contemporary phenomenon, both critically and commercially.

 

Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal is published in association with In Pursuit of Luxury (IPOL).

 

Issue 3.2

 

Foreword

MJ ROBINSON

 

Editorial

SHAUN BORSTROCK AND VERONICA MANLOW

 

Article

 

Luxury: Consumption, legislation, regulation: Part II: Regulation

CHRISTOPHER J. BERRY

 

Report

 

Luxury goods: The value for money question

LUCA SOLCA

 

Reflections on the IPOL Podcast: ‘In Conversation with Sam Bompas’

 

Reflecting on the work of Sam Bompas and its connection to luxury

THOMAÏ SERDARI

 

Frederic Monneyron on luxury

FREDERIC MONNEYRON

 

Articles

 

Monographic study: Ron Doud and the luxury boutique of the 1970s

OLIVER BRADBURY

 

‘The Matrix Now’: Liveness and artisanal labour

RICHARD WHITBY

 

Book Review

 

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion, Charlie Porter (2024)

VERONICA MANLOW