Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption is the first truly interdisciplinary, academic journal devoted to luxury, and satisfies the demand for scholarly, unbiased and penetrating thinking on the subject. The journal considers 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 examines 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 publishes peer-reviewed papers from leading academics and commentators from a variety of disciplines providing an account of luxury that includes the historical, international, political and economic, alongside those directly concerned with the contemporary luxury industry. Each issue will demonstrate the breadth and interpretation of the term that its contemporary status demands and the contestation of luxury in the form of socio-political critique will generate challenging academic debate, establishing the journal as the leading forum for those interested in the field.
Editors
Thomaï Serdari, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, USA
Editorial Advisory Board
Glenn Adamson, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
John Armitage, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
Christopher Berry, University of Glasgow, UK
Ryan Bishop, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
Andrew Bolton, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Mary Westerman Bulgarella, Independent Researcher, Italy
Gillion Carrara, School of Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Annette Condello, Curtin University, Australia
Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Volker Eichelmann, Kingston University, UK
Jonathan Faiers, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
Mike Featherstone, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Critic and Fashion Director, New York Times, USA
Christine Guth, Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
Iain Hay, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Pat Kirkham, Bard Graduate Centre, New York, USA
Peter McNeil, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Gerald Mazzalovo, Aravis SA, Zurich, Switzerland
Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, University of Bologna, Italy
Shin'ya Nagasawa, Luxury Branding Institute, Waseda University, Japan
Peter Oakley, Royal College of Art, UK
Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
Shannon Bell Price, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
Jo Prosser, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick, UK
Joanne Roberts, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
Ian Taplin, Wake Forest University, USA
Paula von Wachenfeldt, Stockholm University, Sweden
Iain R. Webb, Central Saint Martins/Royal College of Art, UK
Elizabeth Wilson, London College of Fashion, London, UK
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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