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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (29 Jul 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0143113704
  • ISBN-13: 978-0143113706
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars informative but badly written, 9 Feb 2009
By KIM (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lustre (Paperback)
This book provided an intriguing and informative read once you got over the innumerable amount of typos, spelling errors and periods of waffle.
Still, worth a read but don't expect anything more than newspaper journalism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Confirms what you always believed but did not want to admit, 24 Jan 2009
This review is from: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lustre (Paperback)
Excellent journalistic writing, each chapter could be a feature in a magazine and stand on its own. Dana Thomas clearly knows what she is talking about and had access to the key people in the industry. After what she has written it is less certain she will have the same access again.

By tracing the origins of luxury goods and demonstrating the few places which still adhere to these ideals, eg Hermes, she exposes the fact that "brand" is no longer the mark of quality artisanship but a crutch to sell high margin goods to insecure, unaware buyers.

Quite breathtaking how cynically knowing the manipulation is from the companies. Good therapy to read the book before a shopping expedition.

Hard to look at Louis Vuitton, red carpet gowns or the perfume industry in the same way again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tour Elite Shows, Remarkable Ateliers, Sweat Shops, and Bogus Goods Stores, 30 Oct 2007
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This review is from: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (Hardcover)
If you like behind-the-scenes books about privilege, luxury, greed, and lust for status, you've come to the right book. Ms. Thomas has a remarkable knowledge of luxury goods which she combines with an insatiable curiosity about everything related to luxuries. She's a keen observer who relates her tours of the highways, byways, and back roads of fashion so vividly you'll think you are part of the scene.

I was delighted to see that Deluxe was a perfect balance of the origins of luxury (as enjoyed by royalty), the methods by which luxury has been and is produced, how the major luxury goods houses got started and evolved, and the trends that dominate today and tomorrow. If there's some part of the book you don't like, you'll soon be into a part that you will like.

I had only one reservation about the book: Ms. Thomas doesn't seem to appreciate the benefits that upscale goods provide for middle class people. She seems to resent that the money made in serving the middle class has led many luxury firms to ignore those with the most elevated taste and money. I don't blame her for resenting that, since she knows that world well. But it does seem to me that having tens of millions enjoy life a bit more is hardly a bad thing.

You'll learn lots about perfume, hand bags, luggage, backpacks, scarves, knits, and dresses. You'll learn even more about those who make fashion succeed. It's a fun ride!
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