Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter studies why luxury brands partner with artists through an historical overview of such alliances and a case study of Louis Vuitton, which has collaborated with an unusually varied range of artists. Fewer media have been offered a more effective fit with the world of luxury-brand marketing than synergistic partnerships with artists. The artists gain increased exposure and, should they wish, a market-blessed legitimacy; the brand benefits from a perception of <italic>épater la bourgeois</italic> legitimacy—and thus authenticity—through its alliances with street-wise avatars of youth, rebellion, and cutting-edge modernism. Additionally, the chapter discusses the appropriation of luxury-brand artisanship, styles, and logos by street fashion designers and artists; participating in partnerships with the brands themselves; and spurring the rise of diversity within the industry. Further, it explores the concept of artification and the rise of luxury-brand museums. In closing, the chapter addresses potential future directions for partnerships between luxury brands and artists, taking into account the evolving role of luxury fashion in today’s new brand of artist, the multihyphenated megacelebrity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.068 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".