I'm going to start building a list of so-called or self-styled luxury experiences online in order to assess the truthiness of my preliminary finding that user experience design for luxury retail is a euphamism for design that's grossly myopic, flashturbatory and largely un-usable. The first member of this list is 20ltd.com. Others I'll add in short order include:
Who am I missing? How far off the mark am I with this postulate about ux design for luxury retailing = awful?

My name is Dan Klyn, and I'm an information architect.
I work with amazing people at a nonprofit company called Flannel in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I also teach IA in the library science programs at the University of Michigan and at Wayne State University.