![]() ![]() ![]() She recounts a recent visit to the Hermès workshop in a Paris suburb to watch the assembly of a Kelly bag, again in silence: one pair of skilled hands, two needles, metres of linen thread, a skin of Crocodylus porosus from Australia, or niloticus from Zimbabwe, or Alligator mississipiensis raised on the firm's Floridan farm, two inspections of the finished object. Dana Thomas remembers how in 1982 she shopped in Christian Dior's old Avenue Montaigne store in Paris for perfume, which the sales clerk "silently wrapped in sheets of matte grey paper without tape or glue and tied up with white ribbon". ![]() Now and again in this hectic, strident account of "how luxury lost its lustre", there are descriptive passages with power. ![]()
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