
Haochen Sun (ed.)
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Published online:
22 October 2015
Published in print:
01 October 2015
Online ISBN:
9780199350421
Print ISBN:
9780199335701
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I. Luxury and Branding I. Luxury and Branding
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II. Luxury and Authenticity II. Luxury and Authenticity
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III. Luxury and Social Justice III. Luxury and Social Justice
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IV. Conclusion: A Touch of Luxe? IV. Conclusion: A Touch of Luxe?
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Chapter
2 Luxury and Its Opposites: A Critical Fashion Studies Perspective
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Pages
13–30
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Published:October 2015
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Kaiser, Susan B., Joseph H. Hancock II, and Sara T. Bernstein, 'Luxury and Its Opposites: A Critical Fashion Studies Perspective', in Haochen Sun, Barton Beebe, and Madhavi Sunder (eds), The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property: Critical Reflections (New York , 2015; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Oct. 2015), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199335701.003.0002, accessed 12 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter explores the contradictory pairings of luxury and branding, luxury and authenticity, and luxury and social justice as well as the concept of luxury itself. It addresses efforts by luxury fashion producers to democratize fashion or at least to expand their customer base and so too their profits. Such efforts displace the fashion producers and their products to new and contested locations along the dimensions of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other indicia of subjectivity, locations against which the fashion producers' own claims of exclusivity may at one time have been defined.
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