How Luxury Lost Its Luster | Book Club with Megan McSherry (Rewind)

ECO CHIC

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Natural Sciences, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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213: We're rewinding to our first ever book club: a conversation with Megan McSherry on the iconic, juicy, insider look of the luxury fashion industry as told through Dana Thomas' Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. We discuss the “democratization” of luxury fashion, consumer psychology, celebrity product placement, “it” bags, perfumes… everything that you’ve ever wondered about the behind-the-scenes of the luxury fashion industry, this book got into. We also share some of our favorite iconic luxury fashion moments, retrospective disdain for trends, and the value of artisanship. Spoiler alert: we discuss why we don’t believe an Hermes Birkin Bag should fall into the same vague “luxury” category as a Louis Vuitton. More for you: Ep 181: The Evolution of the It Bag: Stuff for Status Thanks to our sponsor! EarthBreeze.com/ECOCHIC for 40% off Meet me online - @ecochicpodcast on Instagram + @lauraediez on Tiktok. Email me at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.4	Hey, y'all. Welcome back to Eco-Sheek. My name is Laura Diaz. It is so great to have you
1:06.7	here today. Today's episode is a rewind conversation. So today's conversation originally aired on
1:13.9	Eco-Sheek February of 2021, and it was our very first book club episode. We are reading a really
1:21.4	iconic book on this episode called Deluxe by Dana Thomas. How Luxury Lost Its Luster. We are reading with my great friend
1:31.5	Megan McSherry. She is a sustainability content creator. She has a background in sustainable
1:37.5	supply chains and in fashion. So she was kind of the perfect person to read this book with.
1:43.6	Deluxe is a really fascinating read that
1:46.8	is a behind the scenes research-based look at the luxury fashion industry as it stands today.
1:53.9	And this is a book that I am constantly recommending. So I knew if I was ever to re-release a
1:58.5	book club episode, this would be the one.
2:08.5	Dana Thomas is a journalist who covers style and the business of luxury for a whole bunch of publications, The Washington Post, Newsweek, the New York Times.
2:12.0	And she has lived in Paris for the past 15 years, where she really digs deep into the dark
2:17.1	side of the luxury
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