Today, the image is the centre of attention. But what exactly does this extremely broad term cover: self-image, public image, art, advertising images, image in the press?

With the emergence of the digital age and the Internet, the usual attachment of innovation to research institutions and companies, a model that has prevailed since the beginning of the 20th century, has over recent years, been supplemented by a social and “bottom up” form of innovation.

This issue of Mode de recherche on the subject of luxury follows on from the international conference organized by the IFM in April 2011 (Fashion between Heritage and Innovation), in addition to the recent publication Le luxe. Essais sur la fabrique de l’ostentation.

The term design can respectively denote artificial objects to which uses are assigned, or a sort of artistic production or a stylistic elaboration…

Interview / Jean-Claude Ellena: The scent-proof markets Perfume, Egyptian temples temples of consumption and Art perfume: the fascination with the co-creation perfume and fashion, the story of the paradox presence outside of perfumes perfumes mass How to create the emotional with the smell? Attachment to perfume brands

From Mozart to Pixar: When creativity becomes organizational management of creativity and synthesis of scientific issues Artistic creation in drawdown zone better understand the creative process to make it a place in the organization's edition at the center of tensions between creation Maintenance and management / Frank 'Pairon: secrets of talented designers Maintenance / Olivier Assouly: Conversion of creating economic and taste

Tensions between fashion and modern fashion and modernity in the light of modern art and contemporary fashion to the test of modernity and modern attitude Clothing The modern chiffonier Modernity and Fashion fashion press, probation

Interview: Pascal Morand. Fashion as a business model? The competitiveness of cities specialized in the fashion industry. David Zajtmann What is the specificity of fashion as a business model original? Christel Carlotti, Gildas Minvielle Darwin and fashion. Modeling innovations.Dany Jacobs

Interview: Andre Beirnaert. Customization is as industrial Customization is compatible with the fashion? Consumers and the mass-customization mode and individual DIY: pauperism Personalization: a new age of industrial production

Interview Frederic Monneyron: Fashion as an object of social science Fashion: Anatomy of a word reasonable Thoughts on current fashion

Interview Yann Moulier Boutang: Issues of Intellectual Property Panorama of intellectual property in China The fool's game around the intangible economy

Fair Trade Consumption committed Critique of corporate ethics Sustainable Eco-design Textile fibers Marketing Ethics manufacturing process of textile materials and recycling Corporate Social Responsibility Natural Resources

Interview / Bruno Remaury: The role of culture in the prism trademarks criticism of ostentation applied to the luxury brand's fresh new religious violence or registered brands, budget constraints and immaterialism Women and mode (1908 )

Maintenance / Geneviève Teil: Luxury as an object of the social sciences Luxury heritage and brand equity? The heritage of the luxury industry: Baccarat Bernardaud and at the time of the valuation of the window at the museum: the relationship between the brand and its heritage luxury in the prism of information systems

Research faced with the challenge of contemporary aesthetics, Interview Alain Findeli : The perspectives for research in Design, Special Report : The economy of the Immaterial, The immaterial or capitalism as self-consumerism, The invention of consumer culture, Remarks on Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme, How to embrace the immaterial?