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-w...
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.
作者简介
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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...
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.
Deluxe- How Luxury Lost its Luster (what she wrote and what I thought) 作者Dana Thomas, 一名從上世紀80年代開始活躍的fashion writer。是的,writer,而不是現在人人可以挂個名字的editor。不過時光荏苒,現在這個行業再沒有多少人會寫作,也許因爲,更多的人選擇不去...
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曾在公车靠站的时候,看到一个女孩子背着一个簇新的红色漆皮LV,也许是刚刚入手,看的出来女孩子很喜欢,很兴奋,又有些手足无措。看着她那副“含在嘴里怕化了”的神情,让我想到Karl Lagerfeld的一句话:Luxury is the ease of a T-shirt in a very expensive dress. I f you ...
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"The way I define luxury isn't by fabric or fiber or the amount of gold bits hanging from it," Jacobs says, sitting in his Paris office,sucking on his umpteenth cigarette of the day as his bull terrier Alfred gnaws on a soup bone. "That's an old definition. For me, luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people."(3回应)
2015-01-22 09:15:471人喜欢
"The way I define luxury isn't by fabric or fiber or the amount of gold bits hanging from it," Jacobs says, sitting in his Paris office,sucking on his umpteenth cigarette of the day as his bull terrier Alfred gnaws on a soup bone. "That's an old definition. For me, luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people." 引自 Chapter One: An industry is born
Thirty-five major brands control 60 percent of the business, and dozens of smaller companies account for the rest Their primary customers are upper-income women between thirty and fifty years old. In Asia, the customer base veers younger, starting at twenty-five The average markup on a handbag is ten to twelve times production cost. And Vuitton prices are never marked down to "democratize" fash...
2021-01-13 12:09:36
Thirty-five major brands control 60 percent of the business, and dozens of smaller companies account for the rest引自第3页Their primary customers are upper-income women between thirty and fifty years old. In Asia, the customer base veers younger, starting at twenty-five引自第4页The average markup on a handbag is ten to twelve times production cost. And Vuitton prices are never marked down引自第4页
to "democratize" fashion: they hyped their brands mercilessly; the tycoons made their products more available, economically and physically. They introduced fashionable lower-priced accessories that most anyone could afford
most luxury companies have raised their brands prices exponentially, and many justify the move by falsely claiming that their goods are made in Western Europe, where labor is expensive. To further Pump up their numbers. luxury companies have introduced cheaply made, lower-priced accessories--such as logo-covered T-shirts, nylon toiletry cases, and denim handbags- and expanded their range of perfume and cosmetics, all of which bring in substantial profits when sold in great volume引自第10页The Swiss bank UBS'S wealth-management division had an influx of $76 billion in new money in 2005, an increase of 57 per cent in one year. Netjets, the private iet-share company saw a business increase of 1,000 percent from 2001 to 2006. The private security arm Kroll reported that its business from clients with at least $500 million in assets increased by 67 percent in just two years. 引自第11页
"War destroys man, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind."
-Richemont (Suisse): Cartier (in 2005, accounted for 50% of sale, 80% of profit, 60% of which from watches), Chloe, Van Cleef & Arpels, Montblanc, Piaget, Baume & Mercier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC
In the old day, when luxury brands were privately held companies, owners cared about making a profit but the primary obiective in house was to produce the finest products possible. Since the tycoons have taken over, however, that objective has been replaced by a phenomenon I call the cult of luxury. Today luxury brand items are collected like baseball cards, displayed like artwork, brandished like iconography. Arnault and his fellow luxury tycoons have shifted the focus from what the product is to what it represents.引自第41页
perfume
Most luxury brands today do not own, create, manufacture, or distribute their perfumes. Luxury brands such as Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, and Marc Jacobs license their names to conglomerates such as Procter & Gamble-"soap companies, "sniffed Polge-or big cosmetic firms such as Coty, Estee Lauder, and Loreal. (In 2005 Coty bought Unilevers fragrance division, which included Calvin Klein, Vera Wang, and Chloe, for $800 million. )引自第152页Most perfumes are created by a handful of big laboratories: Givaudan Roure in Switzerland, International Flavors &Fragrances in New York: Symrise in Holzminden, Germany; Firmenich in Switzerland: Quest International in Kent, England; Haarmann Reimer in Germany; and Takasago in Japan.引自第153页The laboratory sells the iuice to the licensee at two and a half times the cost. The licensee retails it for two to four times its cost and earns about 30 to 40 percent in profits. The licensee then pays the luxury brand royalties for use of the name. The big money is made in volume, which is why perfumes are pushed on the mass-market level 引自第163页
handbags
They are easier to create and produce than perfumes, and the profit margin is astounding: for most luxury brands the profit is between ten and twelve times the cost to make the item. At Vuitton, it's as much as thirteen times.引自第168页The “It" bag phenomenon is young--less than twenty years old and has been wholly created by the marketing wizards at luxury brand companies.引自第169页Yes, luxury hand ags are made in China. Top brands. Brands that you carry. Brands that deny outright that their bags are made in China make their ags in China, ... Each brand made the manufacturer sign a confidentiality agreement stipulating that he could not reveal the fact that he produced their products in China. Furthermore the manufacturer doesnt let the competition know who else he is producing. When the representatives come to the factory, they are led directly to the section working on their goods, and they talk only to the team in charge of their goods.引自第197页
also true for clothes and other items - large quantity made in China for the low labor cost
The really rich do not attend the couture shows either. " Most the Chanel clients are not here, "Karl Lagerfeld told me after the Chanel couture show in July 2006. "They have other things to do, you know. But the oceans are crossed by private jets for fittings,”
"Who are they I asked
“New fortunes. Huge fortunes. People who are richer than air. Peo ple we don't really know-we know if the money is clean-but people who don't want to be identified. It's not the red carpet. Whenever you lave the dress on the red carpet, those women, they cancel their order immediately. The women who buy couture don't want to be associated with actresses
“Where do they live?”
“China, there are more than a couple”
A few days later. Chanel's head seamstress and one of its vendeuses were flown with the collection to China for the weekend on a private jet引自第333页
“Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people.” (precisely) “It is as important to be well dressed as it is to be educated, have good manners, eat well.” (never too late to learn:) “luxury was no longer simply about creating finest things money could buy. it was about making money, a lot of money.” “Shift the focus from what the product is to what it represent.” (a c...
2020-07-29 18:42:17
“Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people.” (precisely)
“It is as important to be well dressed as it is to be educated, have good manners, eat well.” (never too late to learn:)
“luxury was no longer simply about creating finest things money could buy. it was about making money, a lot of money.”
“Shift the focus from what the product is to what it represent.” (a clear evidence to support my thoughts on attitude towards luxury goods)
“I face reality as it is, and not like what I would like it to be.”
“luxury lies not in richess and ornateness, but in the absence if vulgarity.”
“Perfume will be olfactive: you will be able to smell a place. you will travel with perfume.”
“luxury is not how much you can buy. luxury is the knowledge of how to do it right.”
One: vertical integration Racamier LVMH Two: Bernard Arnault's business strategy (Gucci), Miuccia Prada (best part of the book) Three: Japanese and Hawaii duty free DFS Four: celebrity phenomenon (Giogio Armani, bribery of stylist) Five: perfume (feud between Chanel and Wertheimer) Six: handbags (Hermes Kelly) Seven: nomadic textile industry Eight: outlet, net-a-porter, Chavs & hip-hop Nine...
2017-09-24 01:58:30
One: vertical integration Racamier LVMH
Two: Bernard Arnault's business strategy (Gucci), Miuccia Prada (best part of the book)
Three: Japanese and Hawaii duty free DFS
Four: celebrity phenomenon (Giogio Armani, bribery of stylist)
Five: perfume (feud between Chanel and Wertheimer)
Six: handbags (Hermes Kelly)
Seven: nomadic textile industry
Eight: outlet, net-a-porter, Chavs & hip-hop
Nine: luxury counterfeit & child labor in Guangdong
Ten: expensive and inexpensive live very well together (Karl Lagerfeld H&M), luxury brand hotel
"The way I define luxury isn't by fabric or fiber or the amount of gold bits hanging from it," Jacobs says, sitting in his Paris office,sucking on his umpteenth cigarette of the day as his bull terrier Alfred gnaws on a soup bone. "That's an old definition. For me, luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people."(3回应)
2015-01-22 09:15:471人喜欢
"The way I define luxury isn't by fabric or fiber or the amount of gold bits hanging from it," Jacobs says, sitting in his Paris office,sucking on his umpteenth cigarette of the day as his bull terrier Alfred gnaws on a soup bone. "That's an old definition. For me, luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people." 引自 Chapter One: An industry is born
Thirty-five major brands control 60 percent of the business, and dozens of smaller companies account for the rest Their primary customers are upper-income women between thirty and fifty years old. In Asia, the customer base veers younger, starting at twenty-five The average markup on a handbag is ten to twelve times production cost. And Vuitton prices are never marked down to "democratize" fash...
2021-01-13 12:09:36
Thirty-five major brands control 60 percent of the business, and dozens of smaller companies account for the rest引自第3页Their primary customers are upper-income women between thirty and fifty years old. In Asia, the customer base veers younger, starting at twenty-five引自第4页The average markup on a handbag is ten to twelve times production cost. And Vuitton prices are never marked down引自第4页
to "democratize" fashion: they hyped their brands mercilessly; the tycoons made their products more available, economically and physically. They introduced fashionable lower-priced accessories that most anyone could afford
most luxury companies have raised their brands prices exponentially, and many justify the move by falsely claiming that their goods are made in Western Europe, where labor is expensive. To further Pump up their numbers. luxury companies have introduced cheaply made, lower-priced accessories--such as logo-covered T-shirts, nylon toiletry cases, and denim handbags- and expanded their range of perfume and cosmetics, all of which bring in substantial profits when sold in great volume引自第10页The Swiss bank UBS'S wealth-management division had an influx of $76 billion in new money in 2005, an increase of 57 per cent in one year. Netjets, the private iet-share company saw a business increase of 1,000 percent from 2001 to 2006. The private security arm Kroll reported that its business from clients with at least $500 million in assets increased by 67 percent in just two years. 引自第11页
"War destroys man, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind."
-Richemont (Suisse): Cartier (in 2005, accounted for 50% of sale, 80% of profit, 60% of which from watches), Chloe, Van Cleef & Arpels, Montblanc, Piaget, Baume & Mercier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC
In the old day, when luxury brands were privately held companies, owners cared about making a profit but the primary obiective in house was to produce the finest products possible. Since the tycoons have taken over, however, that objective has been replaced by a phenomenon I call the cult of luxury. Today luxury brand items are collected like baseball cards, displayed like artwork, brandished like iconography. Arnault and his fellow luxury tycoons have shifted the focus from what the product is to what it represents.引自第41页
perfume
Most luxury brands today do not own, create, manufacture, or distribute their perfumes. Luxury brands such as Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, and Marc Jacobs license their names to conglomerates such as Procter & Gamble-"soap companies, "sniffed Polge-or big cosmetic firms such as Coty, Estee Lauder, and Loreal. (In 2005 Coty bought Unilevers fragrance division, which included Calvin Klein, Vera Wang, and Chloe, for $800 million. )引自第152页Most perfumes are created by a handful of big laboratories: Givaudan Roure in Switzerland, International Flavors &Fragrances in New York: Symrise in Holzminden, Germany; Firmenich in Switzerland: Quest International in Kent, England; Haarmann Reimer in Germany; and Takasago in Japan.引自第153页The laboratory sells the iuice to the licensee at two and a half times the cost. The licensee retails it for two to four times its cost and earns about 30 to 40 percent in profits. The licensee then pays the luxury brand royalties for use of the name. The big money is made in volume, which is why perfumes are pushed on the mass-market level 引自第163页
handbags
They are easier to create and produce than perfumes, and the profit margin is astounding: for most luxury brands the profit is between ten and twelve times the cost to make the item. At Vuitton, it's as much as thirteen times.引自第168页The “It" bag phenomenon is young--less than twenty years old and has been wholly created by the marketing wizards at luxury brand companies.引自第169页Yes, luxury hand ags are made in China. Top brands. Brands that you carry. Brands that deny outright that their bags are made in China make their ags in China, ... Each brand made the manufacturer sign a confidentiality agreement stipulating that he could not reveal the fact that he produced their products in China. Furthermore the manufacturer doesnt let the competition know who else he is producing. When the representatives come to the factory, they are led directly to the section working on their goods, and they talk only to the team in charge of their goods.引自第197页
also true for clothes and other items - large quantity made in China for the low labor cost
The really rich do not attend the couture shows either. " Most the Chanel clients are not here, "Karl Lagerfeld told me after the Chanel couture show in July 2006. "They have other things to do, you know. But the oceans are crossed by private jets for fittings,”
"Who are they I asked
“New fortunes. Huge fortunes. People who are richer than air. Peo ple we don't really know-we know if the money is clean-but people who don't want to be identified. It's not the red carpet. Whenever you lave the dress on the red carpet, those women, they cancel their order immediately. The women who buy couture don't want to be associated with actresses
“Where do they live?”
“China, there are more than a couple”
A few days later. Chanel's head seamstress and one of its vendeuses were flown with the collection to China for the weekend on a private jet引自第333页
“Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people.” (precisely) “It is as important to be well dressed as it is to be educated, have good manners, eat well.” (never too late to learn:) “luxury was no longer simply about creating finest things money could buy. it was about making money, a lot of money.” “Shift the focus from what the product is to what it represent.” (a c...
2020-07-29 18:42:17
“Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people.” (precisely)
“It is as important to be well dressed as it is to be educated, have good manners, eat well.” (never too late to learn:)
“luxury was no longer simply about creating finest things money could buy. it was about making money, a lot of money.”
“Shift the focus from what the product is to what it represent.” (a clear evidence to support my thoughts on attitude towards luxury goods)
“I face reality as it is, and not like what I would like it to be.”
“luxury lies not in richess and ornateness, but in the absence if vulgarity.”
“Perfume will be olfactive: you will be able to smell a place. you will travel with perfume.”
“luxury is not how much you can buy. luxury is the knowledge of how to do it right.”
One: vertical integration Racamier LVMH Two: Bernard Arnault's business strategy (Gucci), Miuccia Prada (best part of the book) Three: Japanese and Hawaii duty free DFS Four: celebrity phenomenon (Giogio Armani, bribery of stylist) Five: perfume (feud between Chanel and Wertheimer) Six: handbags (Hermes Kelly) Seven: nomadic textile industry Eight: outlet, net-a-porter, Chavs & hip-hop Nine...
2017-09-24 01:58:30
One: vertical integration Racamier LVMH
Two: Bernard Arnault's business strategy (Gucci), Miuccia Prada (best part of the book)
Three: Japanese and Hawaii duty free DFS
Four: celebrity phenomenon (Giogio Armani, bribery of stylist)
Five: perfume (feud between Chanel and Wertheimer)
Six: handbags (Hermes Kelly)
Seven: nomadic textile industry
Eight: outlet, net-a-porter, Chavs & hip-hop
Nine: luxury counterfeit & child labor in Guangdong
Ten: expensive and inexpensive live very well together (Karl Lagerfeld H&M), luxury brand hotel
Thirty-five major brands control 60 percent of the business, and dozens of smaller companies account for the rest Their primary customers are upper-income women between thirty and fifty years old. In Asia, the customer base veers younger, starting at twenty-five The average markup on a handbag is ten to twelve times production cost. And Vuitton prices are never marked down to "democratize" fash...
2021-01-13 12:09:36
Thirty-five major brands control 60 percent of the business, and dozens of smaller companies account for the rest引自第3页Their primary customers are upper-income women between thirty and fifty years old. In Asia, the customer base veers younger, starting at twenty-five引自第4页The average markup on a handbag is ten to twelve times production cost. And Vuitton prices are never marked down引自第4页
to "democratize" fashion: they hyped their brands mercilessly; the tycoons made their products more available, economically and physically. They introduced fashionable lower-priced accessories that most anyone could afford
most luxury companies have raised their brands prices exponentially, and many justify the move by falsely claiming that their goods are made in Western Europe, where labor is expensive. To further Pump up their numbers. luxury companies have introduced cheaply made, lower-priced accessories--such as logo-covered T-shirts, nylon toiletry cases, and denim handbags- and expanded their range of perfume and cosmetics, all of which bring in substantial profits when sold in great volume引自第10页The Swiss bank UBS'S wealth-management division had an influx of $76 billion in new money in 2005, an increase of 57 per cent in one year. Netjets, the private iet-share company saw a business increase of 1,000 percent from 2001 to 2006. The private security arm Kroll reported that its business from clients with at least $500 million in assets increased by 67 percent in just two years. 引自第11页
"War destroys man, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind."
-Richemont (Suisse): Cartier (in 2005, accounted for 50% of sale, 80% of profit, 60% of which from watches), Chloe, Van Cleef & Arpels, Montblanc, Piaget, Baume & Mercier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC
In the old day, when luxury brands were privately held companies, owners cared about making a profit but the primary obiective in house was to produce the finest products possible. Since the tycoons have taken over, however, that objective has been replaced by a phenomenon I call the cult of luxury. Today luxury brand items are collected like baseball cards, displayed like artwork, brandished like iconography. Arnault and his fellow luxury tycoons have shifted the focus from what the product is to what it represents.引自第41页
perfume
Most luxury brands today do not own, create, manufacture, or distribute their perfumes. Luxury brands such as Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, and Marc Jacobs license their names to conglomerates such as Procter & Gamble-"soap companies, "sniffed Polge-or big cosmetic firms such as Coty, Estee Lauder, and Loreal. (In 2005 Coty bought Unilevers fragrance division, which included Calvin Klein, Vera Wang, and Chloe, for $800 million. )引自第152页Most perfumes are created by a handful of big laboratories: Givaudan Roure in Switzerland, International Flavors &Fragrances in New York: Symrise in Holzminden, Germany; Firmenich in Switzerland: Quest International in Kent, England; Haarmann Reimer in Germany; and Takasago in Japan.引自第153页The laboratory sells the iuice to the licensee at two and a half times the cost. The licensee retails it for two to four times its cost and earns about 30 to 40 percent in profits. The licensee then pays the luxury brand royalties for use of the name. The big money is made in volume, which is why perfumes are pushed on the mass-market level 引自第163页
handbags
They are easier to create and produce than perfumes, and the profit margin is astounding: for most luxury brands the profit is between ten and twelve times the cost to make the item. At Vuitton, it's as much as thirteen times.引自第168页The “It" bag phenomenon is young--less than twenty years old and has been wholly created by the marketing wizards at luxury brand companies.引自第169页Yes, luxury hand ags are made in China. Top brands. Brands that you carry. Brands that deny outright that their bags are made in China make their ags in China, ... Each brand made the manufacturer sign a confidentiality agreement stipulating that he could not reveal the fact that he produced their products in China. Furthermore the manufacturer doesnt let the competition know who else he is producing. When the representatives come to the factory, they are led directly to the section working on their goods, and they talk only to the team in charge of their goods.引自第197页
also true for clothes and other items - large quantity made in China for the low labor cost
The really rich do not attend the couture shows either. " Most the Chanel clients are not here, "Karl Lagerfeld told me after the Chanel couture show in July 2006. "They have other things to do, you know. But the oceans are crossed by private jets for fittings,”
"Who are they I asked
“New fortunes. Huge fortunes. People who are richer than air. Peo ple we don't really know-we know if the money is clean-but people who don't want to be identified. It's not the red carpet. Whenever you lave the dress on the red carpet, those women, they cancel their order immediately. The women who buy couture don't want to be associated with actresses
“Where do they live?”
“China, there are more than a couple”
A few days later. Chanel's head seamstress and one of its vendeuses were flown with the collection to China for the weekend on a private jet引自第333页
“Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people.” (precisely) “It is as important to be well dressed as it is to be educated, have good manners, eat well.” (never too late to learn:) “luxury was no longer simply about creating finest things money could buy. it was about making money, a lot of money.” “Shift the focus from what the product is to what it represent.” (a c...
2020-07-29 18:42:17
“Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people.” (precisely)
“It is as important to be well dressed as it is to be educated, have good manners, eat well.” (never too late to learn:)
“luxury was no longer simply about creating finest things money could buy. it was about making money, a lot of money.”
“Shift the focus from what the product is to what it represent.” (a clear evidence to support my thoughts on attitude towards luxury goods)
“I face reality as it is, and not like what I would like it to be.”
“luxury lies not in richess and ornateness, but in the absence if vulgarity.”
“Perfume will be olfactive: you will be able to smell a place. you will travel with perfume.”
“luxury is not how much you can buy. luxury is the knowledge of how to do it right.”
One: vertical integration Racamier LVMH Two: Bernard Arnault's business strategy (Gucci), Miuccia Prada (best part of the book) Three: Japanese and Hawaii duty free DFS Four: celebrity phenomenon (Giogio Armani, bribery of stylist) Five: perfume (feud between Chanel and Wertheimer) Six: handbags (Hermes Kelly) Seven: nomadic textile industry Eight: outlet, net-a-porter, Chavs & hip-hop Nine...
2017-09-24 01:58:30
One: vertical integration Racamier LVMH
Two: Bernard Arnault's business strategy (Gucci), Miuccia Prada (best part of the book)
Three: Japanese and Hawaii duty free DFS
Four: celebrity phenomenon (Giogio Armani, bribery of stylist)
Five: perfume (feud between Chanel and Wertheimer)
Six: handbags (Hermes Kelly)
Seven: nomadic textile industry
Eight: outlet, net-a-porter, Chavs & hip-hop
Nine: luxury counterfeit & child labor in Guangdong
Ten: expensive and inexpensive live very well together (Karl Lagerfeld H&M), luxury brand hotel
Parasite Singles: unmarried university-educated women, ages twenty-five to thirty-four, who worked in good-paying jobs—as secretaries, teachers, executives—and lived with their parents. ... With few living expenses, Parasite Singles use their ample disposable income to shop. Their favorite items: luxury brand leather goods, preferably covered with logos. Indeed, 23 percent of all luxury brand...
2017-01-28 16:27:36
Parasite Singles: unmarried university-educated women, ages twenty-five to thirty-four, who worked in good-paying jobs—as secretaries, teachers, executives—and lived with their parents. ...
With few living expenses, Parasite Singles use their ample disposable income to shop. Their favorite items: luxury brand leather goods, preferably covered with logos. Indeed, 23 percent of all luxury brand sales in Japan today are leather goods such as wallets and handbags.引自 GOING GLOBAL
https://dou.bz/0C7A6p
Alistar 2017-01-28 16:38:07
但是我认为WSJ这篇文章中有视角问题。为什么未婚会作为一个重要特点拎出来说,对于日本女性,不要说00年,至今婚姻对于事业影响仍然很大,而我认为文章的问题在于,为何断定不婚是主要出于经济考量,就像文中女孩说的:不知道,没碰上对的人。这样一篇文章在平权声势浩大的今天几乎不可想象。
Alistar 2017-01-28 16:41:05
Yamada says the main reason women are delaying marriage is that life at home is too comfortable. #???
0 有用 Elephant 2008-12-16 00:11:51
保持着记者的客观~
0 有用 小捌 2019-02-14 14:22:37
Facts about the fashion industry date fast
1 有用 SELENE 2016-11-29 14:41:47
上个暑假看的这书 最近各媒体分析现在各国家的nationalism趋势和反对globalism 又想来它 基本上就是骂法国奢侈品全球化之后从欧洲到品牌到产品每况愈下 锅全是lvmh老板Bernard Arnault的 巴菲特在美国总统选举完了之后的interview: 经济学家口中的全球化带动效率是资本家自己可以赚取更多的profit而实际上普通人的生活并不会因此而更好 全球化除了让普通人失去工作... 上个暑假看的这书 最近各媒体分析现在各国家的nationalism趋势和反对globalism 又想来它 基本上就是骂法国奢侈品全球化之后从欧洲到品牌到产品每况愈下 锅全是lvmh老板Bernard Arnault的 巴菲特在美国总统选举完了之后的interview: 经济学家口中的全球化带动效率是资本家自己可以赚取更多的profit而实际上普通人的生活并不会因此而更好 全球化除了让普通人失去工作和产业以外 只不过可以在买篮球鞋的时候少给几分钱而已 ——我个人觉得全球化对普通人生活的改进绝对不止这点儿 但是确实可以理解 跟失去自己的工作相比 一双鞋子的一点差价确实不算什么 但是我还是觉得虽然有几个generation的人因此失去工作(阵痛期) 但是从长远看起来肯定是对更多的人有好处的 (展开)
0 有用 augustine 2008-05-27 00:31:55
Thomas: Luxury has lost its luster.
3 有用 小花Kelly 2014-07-05 21:00:55
So luxury is about buying into the dream, what if that dream is only an illusion created by ads and some publicity stunt...
0 有用 糯米团子是好物 2021-08-24 12:54:46
name dropping太过,作者过于pretentious,白人傲慢太明显,一个买不起高定念念不忘奢侈品购物经历是买了一小瓶香水的杂志记者,自己也是中产,本来也并非传统奢侈品行业的目标客户,写这一本书,最终达成了完美的自我嘲讽。07年的书太老了。
0 有用 Purvert 2021-08-18 23:20:30
Informative but poorly organized and somewhat pretentious tone
0 有用 袁xy 2021-03-19 17:39:43
看的英文版。很多一手采访资料,算是功课做得多的吧
0 有用 黄小旭 2021-02-26 02:54:40
读完这书还想买奢侈品的都是真中产。
0 有用 mai 2021-01-15 12:41:37
读完这本书之后,从此我看到奢侈品牌 = 大润发