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CONTENTS
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
beautifulwith
its
elaborate
lifea
luxurious
life.
Thirty-five
with
the
support
of
fashion
replaced
individual
stores,
which
stay
open
until
And
luxurys
barons
PART ONE
CHAPTER ONE
AN INDUSTRY IS BORN
thousand
employees
and
2006.
encouraged
and
supported
the
canvas
he
developed
called
monogram line.
and
European
antiques,
staircase.
Magnifique!
Dior
himself
was
exactly
to
your measurements.
in
Nicea
piddly 70 million FF
CHAPTER TWO
GROUP MENTALITY
he
stands
six
feet
fourand
that
LVMH
had
launched
the
companies, many
below
luxury
companies
back
then,
Clines
you.
Givenchy
learned
of
the
blooded
when
reorganizing
the
fulfilled
their
mandatethey
Arnault
didnt
care;
interrupting
you.
He
travels
operating
profits,
according
to
started
experimenting
with
new
haute
bourgeois
society,
with
it,
she
bristled
and
answered
in
Italy
at
the
time.
Miuccia
CHAPTER THREE
GOING GLOBAL
market.
The
parallel
market
Vuitton
headquarters
in
France
1978,
Joyce
Okano,
regional
vice
underprivileged
youth
programs,
as
handbags,
wallets,
jewelry,
convenience
shops
that
sell
avenue
Montaigne
store.
fashioned
wood-and-glass
sales
shopping
address
in
Japan. It
framed
mirrors,
displaying
PART TWO
CHAPTER FOUR
glance.
Choi,
the
companys
instructed
Choi
in
her
acute
4.6
power
was
formidable.
When
and
ordered
pumps
for
their
them.
1950s,
there
were
handful
of
called
the
Galleria
that
VIP
asked.
Confidential,
Escadasand
arrivals.
They
send
unsolicited
mortgage
payments,
exotic
time
with
its
official
position
CHAPTER FIVE
moved
to
southern
Italy
and
Fahrenheit)
until
their
sacs
of
Chanel
turned
coat,
the
in
the
company.
Wertheimer
Este
Lauder
Companies,
was uneven.
hangar,
with
towering,
mad-
government
regulations
on
CHAPTER SIX
handbag
changes
every
few
monogram stamped
in
rainbow
staged
happening
called
light,
bright
colors
you
see
beeswax
to
make
it
strong,
distributed
potato
soup
to
the
of
amulets
and
icons.
African
more
efficiently.
Louis
Vuitton
2001,
add
another seam to
keep
it
CHAPTER SEVEN
1954,
cylindrical
contraption
called
two
rooms
of
the
Kremlin;
it
finest. If a
client only
wants
room
upstairs
to
be
finished.
eight
key
garment-producing
Delta
of
Guangdong,
the
China.
As
with
accessories
secretary
of state
for Northern
Belgium-based
International
In response to rising
Shaw-Lan
Wang
bought
the
PART THREE
CHAPTER EIGHT
GOING MASS
Caesars
Palace,
home
of 150
41
In
Beverly
Hills
the
was
already
doing
terrific
up the trunk.
power
to
enchant
seemed
As
outlet
shopping
relations
representative,
and
How,
she
wondered,
send
them
out,
Massenet
squares,
bracelets,
and
on
the
clothes,
jewelry,
and
Beyonc
Knowles,
decking
But
in
July 1997,
CHAPTER NINE
FAUX AMIS
We
headed
toward
lucrative
fashion
knockoffs
are
success
that
the
owners
Drive.
Some
knockoff
handbags
are
Vuitton.
few
declared
that
the
statenot
around
Guangzhou.
Counterfeit
containersfive
with
bogus
SHORTLY
AFTER
LUNCH
in
We hoofed it up the
The
cops
told
the
home.
What? I asked.
counterfeiting
has
become
the
CHAPTER TEN
WHAT NOW?
can
do
whole
Black
Label
space
as
well.
flagships,
in
Beijing
and
in
In
Shanghai,
Lee
is
Luxury
brands
have
burnish
their
credentials
as
Russians
spent
their
wealth
in
haute-priced
haute
cuisine
introduced
lower-priced
jewelry,
Giorgio
Armani
CHAPTER ELEVEN
NEW LUXURY
handful
of
major
embroidery
house
Lesage,
in
several
upscale
department
reptiles,
found
it
to
be
for
in-house
nose
Jean-Michel
the
countrys
188
million possess
If
youre
regular
On
the
second
floor
hundred.
her guests.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Laudomia
Pucci,
Kris
Buckner,
day of my career.
NOTES
Embroidery
for
French
Levine,
Libert,
109.
We passed: Ibid.
September
19,
2000;
24.
48.
History
of
the
Senses
11, 2001, p. 5.
We
are
frightened:
brown
leather
tag:
China
Inc.
(New
York:
F i r m s , Womens
Wear
C e n te r, Womens Wear
Thief:
Independent
Business
Forever
(New
Trafficking in Counterfeit
S mu g g l i n g , New
York
Womens
Wear
Daily,
2006, p. 17.
Feitelberg, On to India,
1.
Whittaker,
Luxury
&
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2001.
Hollywood
Legends
as
Rawsthorn,
Alice. Yves
INDEX
Allure perfume
soft suit
Beckham, Victoria
Birnbaum, David
in Hawaii
handbags
and Wertheimer
luxury brands,
and Net-a-Porter
and Mourides
De Palma, Brian
Arnault make-
Duchin, Peter
Eau parfume au th
Fang, Kenneth
First perfume
of
designer hotels
Gucci
Guerlain, Jean-Paul
Herms
Hawaii
museum
Hitchcock, Alfred
manufacturing
duty-free
Jil Sander
accessories
individual companies
Loper, Don
in Hawaii
Loy, Myrna
measures
perfume
Fendi buy-out
Madame Grs
department stores
Miu Miu
Newton, Helmut
profitability of
Parfums de Rosine
new perfume
Polge, Jacques
Prada, Martino
Recognition Media
perfume use
Ryder, Winona
Schiek, Lisa
Shields, Brooke
Smith, Kent
role of
Textile production
Travolta, John
Veblen, Thorstein
Vipiana, Richard
Outlets
Zara
Empics/Abaca.