Luxury and the search for meaning

Abstract

Our premise in this book is that luxury brands have an innate leadership capacity. They can build business models that are in tune with the evolving expectations of society and serve as role models for individuals and other companies. Further, by working like artists, beyond the constraints imposed by markets, luxury brands can affirm the very essence of what qualifies them as luxury: the ability to present a point of view that shapes how people think and what they desire. To do so, however, they must shed certain entrenched and outdated assumptions about what people expect of luxury