The figures show the degree to which it has convinced the luxury consumer.

Then there's the diversity of the modern luxury consumer, for whom our summer might be their winter, or who might, in best jetset style, be endlessly switching continents.

I suspect that, as in previous downturns, a visit to the cinema will be one of the few little luxuries consumers will not be prepared to give up.

These represent canny readings of the luxury consumer's current ambidextrousness.

With all their physical needs satisfied, says a press release, luxury consumers are turning from the pursuit of materialism to a yearning for new experiences.