With Millennials, however, "luxury" is encountering new hurdles.
There are Paul Smith stores in Terminals 2 and 3. Plus, shoppers can encounter luxury label Mulberry, venerable knitwear brand Pringle of Scotland and Regent Street regular Mappin & Webb for jewelry.
The Half Moon campus is so large that guests enjoy the luxury of hardly encountering too many others.
It loved the New Beetle but said its electrical problems were among the worst, and it liked the Volvo S80 (the luxury Volvo) but encountered transmission problems.
A Louis Vuitton shop window is the first close encounter with luxury for many people, and the brand often pioneers new markets.
Men's accessories are always tricky territory in Milan, where you are liable to encounter either luxury briefcases or weekender-size duffels.
MY first encounter with luxury fashion came at age 15, when my dapper father took me past the fragrance counters of Saks Fifth Avenue, up the mirrored escalators to whichever floor was then housing the gilded designer salons (instead of the jammed racks of so-called "better dresses," with all that ominously implies).
Yet, despite touches of a sort usually encountered at luxury restaurants, nothing on the menu costs more than $10.
This five-star picnic was to prove a fairly good indication of the level of shameless über-luxury that we encountered three hours after polishing off the fizz.
I've been thinking about the luxury industry because of an encounter I had a month or two ago at an international mining conference in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia.
It is a two-act 85-minute work set at the turn of the 20th century, about a Pittsburgh high school student who runs away to New York and is done in by his encounters with both luxury and the drive of a mechanistic age.
