Luxury Network Newsletter

April 2013- Newsletter Issue 1

August 2013 - Newsletter Issue 2

January 2014 - Newsletter Issue 3

June 2014 - Newsletter Issue 4

October 2014 - Newsletter Issue 5

Useful websites

• Warwick Knowledge Centre. Luxury and the manipulation of desire
• Charisma. A website hub for researchers interested in consumer markets.
• Institut Francais de la Mode. Related academic research programme.
• The China Story Project including research on luxury consumption in China based at The Australian National University's Centre on China in the World.

Exhibitions and Conferences

• What is Luxury? will interrogate ideas of luxury today. It will address how luxury is made and understood in a physical, conceptual and cultural capacity. The 'What is Luxury' exhibition will be held at V&A from 25 April – 27 September 2015. Link to website.
• Luxury for Fashion Exhibition currently being held at Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin- 11th April- 6th October 2013. Link to website.
• Conference hosted by University of Melbourne's Faculty of Art History entitled "The Power of Luxury:Art & Culture at the Italian Courts during Machiavelli's lifetime" held 19-20 February 2013. Link to website.
• An international conference was recently held from 21-23 November 2012 at Lyon organised by Natacha Coquery and Alain Bonnet (LARHA) entitled "Le commerce du luxe - Le luxe du commerce. Production, exposition et circulation des objets précieux du Moyen Âge à nos
  jours" Link to website.