Critical luxury studies : defining a field / John Armitage and Joanne Roberts Knowing luxury : from socio-cultural value to market price? / Joanne Roberts and John Armitage-- Luxury : a dialectic of desire? / Christopher J. Berry-- The luxury duality : from economic fact to cultural capital / Ulrich Lehmann-- 'Life's little luxuries?' the social and spatial construction of luxury / Juliana Mansvelt, Mary Breheny and Iain Hay-- The object and art of luxury consumption / Mike Featherstone-- Experiments in suchness : Hiroshi Sugimoto's silk shiki for Hermès / Thomai Serdari-- Libeskind in Las Vegas : reflections on architecture as a luxury commodity / Adam Sharr-- Sartorial connoisseurship, the T-shirt and the interrogation of luxury / Jonathan Faiers-- Online luxury : geographies of production and consumption and the Louis Vuitton website / Agnes Rocamora.--
'Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distincitve and expanding subject, internationally well-known critical theorists John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a ground-breaking aesthetic, design-led and media-related examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury.'