Let Them Eat Cake

In Let Them Eat Cake: Marketing Luxury to the Masses As Well as the Classes, readers will get the first research-based study of the 15 million truly affluent households that make up the leading edge of the new luxury market. Pamela Danziger notes that the luxury market is changing radically from the conspicuous-consumption consumers of the 1990s. Danziger conducted a two-year research study of luxury consumers with incomes of $75, 000 and above and discovered a totally new type of luxury consumer. Called the "butterflies, " these most affluent of affluent consumers have emerged from their luxurious cocoons and are turning their focus from the home to the outside world.