
Deluxe
How Luxury Lost Its Luster
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Narrated by:
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Dana Thomas
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By:
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Dana Thomas
Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits.
Award-winning journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don’t want us to know. Deluxe is an uncompromising look behind the glossy façade that will enthrall anyone interested in fashion, finance, or culture.
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Terrible narration, good info
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Where the book struggles is the narration...anytime an author narrates their own book this is a red flag, and for good reason. Outside of autobiography's I almost wish Audible would ban authors from doing this. It would be akin to an author of a novel who has no acting experience demanding that they play the lead role in a movie adaption of their book instead of an A-list celebrity. Simply put, as an author you can't outperform a professional voice actor. Let them do what they're good at (voice acting), and you do what you're good at (writing the book). As for specifics, there are long gaps inbetween sentences that detract from the listening experience and break the immersion. If you try to increase the playback speed, she is hard to understand because it's not her rate of speech that is slow.
High and low quality in the fashion industry
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Interesting material, terrible narration
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Great information
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I enjoyed how the author organized the book and was sorry to see it come to an end. The only criticism I have is the author should have reconsidered being the narrator. Too many times she stopped in the middle of a sentence as though she was unsure what she was reading. Did she not prepare to read her own book? It just made the audiobook version come off as a bit amatuerish.
Insightful, enjoyable, tragic in some ways
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my favorite book
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What’s the thesis here?
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Wow!!
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Super interesting
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Thomas has a very pleasant, low voice and (to my untutored ear) does very well with the abundance of non-English names and words. There is an occasional…hesitation? in the reading, a pause here and there that’s just the teeniest bit too long, but it’s not really frequent and didn’t impact my enjoyment of the book.
All in all I highly recommend!
Fascinating look at the history of luxury brands
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