Dana Thomas is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, published by The Penguin Press in 2007. She began her career writing for the Style section of The Washington Post in Washington, D.C. and from 1995 to 2008, she served as the European cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. Most recently, she was the European editor of Condé Nast Portfolio. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Los Angeles Times and Financial Times in London and serves as the Paris correspondent for Australian Harper's Bazaar. Thomas is a member of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris and the Overseas Press Club. She taught journalism at The American University of Paris from 1996 to 1999. In 1987, she received the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Scholarship and the Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. She lives in Paris.
Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Award-winning journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don?t want us to know. Deluxe is an uncompromising look behind the glossy façade that will enthrall anyone interested in fashion, finance, or culture.
还记得以前看过一篇文章写到,你不要以为自己自己有个LV的包,有个Gucci的眼镜,有多几件大牌的奢侈品就以为自己是有钱人,真正有钱人的世界你根本不懂。的确,仅仅拥有几件叫得出名的大牌而已,对大牌又了解多少呢? 刚工作的头两年工资不高,但是同一批进来的同事...
評分在奢侈品民主化的浪潮下,每个国家都有一大批奢侈品牌的忠实粉丝,但不同国家的粉丝对奢侈品的态度却有所不同。 日本人对商品品质显示出无人企及的挑剔。“他们对细节的专注,对品质的要求,无可匹敌,毫不妥协。”香奈儿日本分公司董事长理查德•克拉斯(Richard Collasse...
評分整本书的结构比较杂乱,每个品牌的历史和故事穿插在各个章节里,而且每个章节的内容很多时候跟章节标题没有什么关系。如果可以按照品牌来划分章节,条理会更清晰一些。 作者对细节的描述非常到位,态度客观,我没看出她有太多的批判性,很多品牌的历史一一叙述。有一个观点是...
評分此书作为一本故事书架构很精巧,总是在承上启下。作者写作风格严肃,大量的旁征博引也都标明了出处。作者只是把一个很多人都心知肚明的事拿到了表面:大多数奢侈品消费者都知道他们买的包是人造革做的,也知道是机器缝的,更能从各品牌门店媚俗奢侈的装修里知道这是暴利行业。...
評分一切奢侈品都是现代文化刻意制造出来的无用之物,就像钻石、宝石一样,当大家都在沙漠里跋涉的时候,一颗十克拉的钻石也换不到一瓶水。事实也是如此——当你走在淮海路上,穿200万美元定制的一套西服和20块一件的T恤都没人多瞧你一眼。手提60万的爱马仕和肩背60块的双肩背更没...
作者把一些隨處可(免費)搜的信息用乏味語言拼湊在一起,寫齣一本沒有分析深度也沒有趣味的書。我從中沒有得到任何之前不知道的信息。
评分Chair 的Prof的推薦,確實是一本優美的書
评分group mentality , “War destroys man, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.”
评分"Luxury is the ease of a T-shirt in a very expensive dress. If you don't have it, you are not a person used to luxury. You are just a rich person who can buy stuff." "Luxury if not how much you can buy. Luxury is the knowledge of how to do it right, how to take the time to understand and choose well. Luxury is buying the right thing."
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