Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

List of Tables

pp viii-viii

Series Editors’ Preface

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xiv

1 - Critical Luxury Studies: Defining a Field

pp 1-22

I - CRITICAL LUXURY STUDIES

pp 23-24

2 - Knowing Luxury: From Socio-Cultural Value to Market Price?

pp 25-46

3 - Luxury: A Dialectic of Desire?

pp 47-66

4 - The Luxury Duality: From Economic Fact to Cultural Capital

pp 67-87

5 - ‘Life's Little Luxuries?’ The Social and Spatial Construction of Luxury

pp 88-107

6 - The Object and Art of Luxury Consumption

pp 108-128

II - ART, DESIGN, MEDIA

pp 129-130

7 - Experiments in Suchness: Hiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for Hermès

pp 131-150

8 - Libeskind in Las Vegas: Reflections on Architecture as a Luxury Commodity

pp 151-176

9 - Sartorial Connoisseurship, the T-Shirt and the Interrogation of Luxury

pp 177-198

10 - Online Luxury: Geographies of Production and Consumption and the Louis Vuitton Website

pp 199-220

Index

pp 221-225