Since the last decade of the 20th century, the market of luxury goods has witnessed a steady growth globally. The brands’ owners are giving greater attention to the phenomenon of luxury consumption. This thesis presents an insight into the determinants of the consumers’ behavior and their purchasing targets and needs towards luxury fashion brands and products, such as Christian Dior, Chanel, Hermes, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Versace, among others, and their relative importance. There are several studies that have tested the consumers’ purchasing behavior, while only few studies surveyed and ...

Many studies have been conducted on social media’s role and especially the role of Instagram in increasing sales and in yielding positive results for luxury brands, but none of these studies was conducted on Lebanese women. Using the framing theory and the perception theory, this paper explores how important is the presence of luxury brands on Instagram for Lebanese females aged between 15 and 35. A survey was distributed to a sample of 335 females aged between 15 and 35 using different variables to measure how these females perceive data and different content from luxury brands on Instagram. An ...