In this thought piece, originally published by Luxury Society and reproduced here by Europa Star, Piers Schmidt proposes the paradoxical motion that ‘luxury’ has become democratised by digital, which is the product of three main reasons that can be summarised as the three ‘A’s: Accessibility, Availability and Accountability.

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