Exotic perfumes, stoles of angora fur, a strand of delicate pearls, even simple mirrors: these are luxuries people have coveted for centuries … but they don’t come without a price. Writer and editor Katy Kelleher joins host Krys Boyd to pull back the curtain on the luxuries we long for, which she writes about in her Longreads series, “The Ugly History of Beautiful Things.”
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