Next 10thDecember I will be speaking at the virtual symposium “In Pursuit of Luxury: What Next?”, organized by the University of Hertfordshire −School of Creative Arts in collaboration with Intellect Publishing. I will reflect on the research Prof. Simon O’Leary and I published on the “Journal of Design Business...

What fascinates me about luxury is its protean nature: luxury is a universal concept, and yet it changes according to each context of experience. Luxury can identify socially validated objects, like a yacht or an Hermès Kelly bag, as well as a personal, mundane moment like our morning coffee....