The History of luxury

The History of luxury

Luxury is not a new thing… Understanding the luxury world means understanding how it has evolved over 5000 years and been perceived over time. It also involves seeing how history has inspired today’s luxury designs as referring to the past has never featured so heavily in collections.

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  • Anyone wanting to work in the luxury universe

Duration

 A 4-hour workshop

Prerequisites

  • No specific prerequisites are required to take this course

Level

  • Beginner

Objectives

  • Understand the luxury universe
  • Explain how it has evolved over time
 

Training tools

  • An interactive process using a variety of teaching methods
  • A PowerPoint presentation
  • Videos
  • Facilitation techniques to assess skills

Teaching content

  • Introduction
  • Luxury: stimulating creativity and innovation
  • A showcase for heritage, DNA and history
  • Luxury in history from Prehistory to the present day
  • A few figures
  • Different theories on the subject of luxury
  • Clients and their expectations
  • New challenges in 21st century luxury

Follow-up and assessment

  • Skills are assessed throughout the training course

AT THE END OF THE COURSE

You will be able to

  • Define the luxury universe

You will have gained

  • An understanding of luxury and how each time period has added to it

Validation

  • All attendees are awarded an attendance certificate at the end of the course subject to the validation of their skills

Tutor

  • Dominique HARNOIS

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  • The registration form needs to be returned either by email at contact@academieduluxe.com or by post at l’Académie du Luxe 21 avenue Foch 75116 Paris. Once the form has been received, the turnaround time is between 1 or 2 days maximum. We will confirm you if there are still some places left for the training course and we will send you a training contract that will need to be returned, signed and stamped.
  • The payment can be made either by check or by bank transfer 30 to 15 days before the beginning of the training course. The registration will then be definitive.
  • In case of a cancellation of the training by the Académie du Luxe, the payment will be entirely returned by post, with a new date proposal.

Académie du luxe
21, avenue Foch
75116 Paris

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