Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption is the first truly interdisciplinary, academic journal devoted to luxury, and will satisfy the demand for scholarly, unbiased and penetrating thinking on the subject.
Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption will be the first truly interdisciplinary, academic journal devoted to luxury, and will satisfy the demand for scholarly, unbiased and penetrating thinking on the subject.
The journal will consider luxury in broad socio-cultural contexts, exploring and interrogating both our historical and contemporary understanding of the term.
Within the context of the contemporary global economic recession, our consumption of luxury is being questioned and indeed transformed, with notions of ‘affordable luxury', ‘sustainable luxury' and even ‘luxury for less' suggesting a new discourse. At the same time, the demand for luxury goods and services on a global scale is at an unprecedented level.
Luxury will examine all aspects of the subject: its historical formation and understanding, its contemporary global political and economic function, alongside an exploration of how the concept of luxury remains an impetus for design, popular culture, literature and fine art.
The journal was founded and co-edited by Jonathan Faiers.
Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption journal
Jonathan Faiers is Professor of Fashion Thinking at Winchester School of Art, teaching across a number of arts and design courses on the history of dress and textiles and fashion as material culture. He supervises a number of PhD students working in the fields of fashion and textiles and is engaged in a number of on-going research projects centred on luxury, fur, dress and identity.
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