DELUXE How Luxury Lost Its Luster By Dana Thomas Penguin. 375 pp. $27.95 Now that Vera Wang designs dresses for Kohl's, and mall merchant J. Crew peddles $600 cashmere blazers, what is "luxury" fashion? In "Deluxe," Dana Thomas, Newsweek's Paris-based fashion and culture reporter, seeks to provid... -
The Rabble Wears Prada
DELUXE How Luxury Lost Its Luster By Dana Thomas Penguin. 375 pp. $27.95 Now that Vera Wang designs dresses for Kohl's, and mall merchant J. Crew peddles $600 cashmere blazers, what is "luxury" fashion? In "Deluxe," Dana Thomas, Newsweek's Paris-based fashion and culture reporter, seeks to provid...-
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