Sentence examples for defined luxury from inspiring English sources
The group defined luxury goods as those that cost 20 to 200percentt more than standard items.
In the mid-eighteenth century, Diderot's Encyclopédie defined luxury as "the use that one makes of one's wealth and industry to obtain a pleasant way of life," and went on, "The savage has his hammock that he buys with pelts; the European has his sofa".
Luxury: With its elegant freestanding spa and Thai cooking school, the Oriental Hotel, on the river at 48 Oriental Avenue, (66-2) 659-9000, fax (66-2) 659-0000, www.mandarin-oriental.com, has for decades defined luxury not only in Bangkok, but around Southeast Asia.
Hermès attractively defines luxury as "that which can be repaired".
We all define luxury differently, and what we deem tasteful is subjective.
All the new affluence is redefining how we define luxury; it's a different way of approaching it".
"Tony always said he was about beauty and not luxury, if you're going to define luxury by cost," Ms. Fargo said.
If, of course, you define luxury as Thomas does - as being nominated brands of clothes, accessories, hotels and Roederer Cristal champagne swigged from the magnum by rappers.
She had been quizzing Jeffrey Bilhuber about his book, "Defining Luxury," a $65 doorstop from Rizzoli, and couldn't get the answer she was after.
During the 1920s building boom, Rosario Candela, J. E. R. Carpenter and Emery Roth designed apartment houses that quickly came to define luxury.
PARIS — A postrecession strategy likely to define luxury brand management for the early 21st century has emerged from a week packed with designer changes at European fashion houses.
