Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media
John Armitage and Joanne Roberts
Abstract
This book presents an examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury. The book provides a technocultural focus on aesthetic, design-led media practice with key case studies, including Hiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for Hermès, the plain white T-shirt, and Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LMVH). To understand luxury, the book considers the socio-cultural value and market price of luxury; the desire for luxury; the social and spatial construction of luxury; the object and art of luxury consumption; architecture as a luxury commodity; and geographies of pr ... More
This book presents an examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury. The book provides a technocultural focus on aesthetic, design-led media practice with key case studies, including Hiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for Hermès, the plain white T-shirt, and Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LMVH). To understand luxury, the book considers the socio-cultural value and market price of luxury; the desire for luxury; the social and spatial construction of luxury; the object and art of luxury consumption; architecture as a luxury commodity; and geographies of production and consumption, as illustrated by the Louis Vuitton website.
Keywords:
luxury,
Hermès,
Louis Vuitton,
Moët Hennessy,
socio-cultural value,
market price,
desire,
luxury consumption,
architecture,
luxury commodity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474402613 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2017 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402613.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
John Armitage, editor
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Joanne Roberts, editor
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
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