The Price Paradox: Why Luxury Fashion Is Booming During A Cost-Of-Living Crisis

If luxury is not an ideal, a thing to be earned and yearned for, then what is it? With a groundswell of indignation over the costs of luxury and soaring levels of consumption and debt across unexpected demographics, what is spurring us to live beyond our means?

Going Once, Going Twice: Why Estate Sales & Auctions Are Booming

There is a psychological phenomenon that suggests a person’s essence can be bound to their things. As we see an influx of estate sales and memorabilia auctions, with valuations expanding astronomically, perhaps ‘owning’ a piece of someone has become the ultimate luxury—but what are we really buying into?