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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
by Dana Thomas
You'll look at all of those LV bags quite differently once you know that they typically cost about $40 to make.
Someone referred me to this because the Empress Eugenie and the series at Compiegne is a big part of my new novel, and so I've been researching her exhaustively (LV made her trunks). A friend has a trunk from the early 20th Century of theirs and it's amazing. So the decline is incredibly sad.
Anything you might recommend about late 19th Century glitter and clothes would be appreciated, btw. I don't want to leave a stone unturned, as it were...
Michael's review
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas
Michael's review
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a real eye-opener about the Luxury Fashion industry.
You'll look at all of those LV bags quite differently once you know that they typically cost about $40 to make.
Someone referred me to this because the Empress Eugenie and the series at Compiegne is a big part of my new novel, and so I've been researching her exhaustively (LV made her trunks). A friend has a trunk from the early 20th Century of theirs and it's amazing. So the decline is incredibly sad.Anything you might recommend about late 19th Century glitter and clothes would be appreciated, btw. I don't want to leave a stone unturned, as it were...
