Research project Luxury Fashion and Media Communication: Between the Material and Immaterial
Media includes here print media, social media and advertising. The empirical material consists of image and film advertisements, interviews, social media and public and private archives. By bringing together scholars from the field of Fashion Studies, Cultural Studies, Communication, Marketing and History, this edited collection offers an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the value and meaning of the luxury object as it is formed and represented in media. We consider at the outset the luxury object as having both material and immaterial aspects, and the volume rests on these two prerequisites. The volume argues thus that communication produces luxury as an identity maker, a bodily experience and an immaterial encounter. Not least, the different communication strategies are the very source of competitive advantage on the market. Luxury Fashion and Media Communication aims at proving it.
To be published by Bloomsbury in 2023.