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This study will focus on the luxury market and how this market has been affected by the present recession. The economic downturn have had a major impact on today?s business and consumption, practically all industries have been affected. However there exist different opinions about how the luxury market have been influenced, certain experts mean that this segment is recession proof while others believe that this market will experience the worst side-effects. For that reason we find it interesting to analyze the luxury market and develop our own opinion about the impact of the recession. The paper will emphasize the luxury sectors marketing actions and the impact on businesses. We have used a qualitative approach based on eight different interviews. The respondents have been carefully chosen to fulfill our purpose. These interviews will be fully presented in the appendix and will constitute the base of the analysis. Since the paper is written with a qualitative approach, it is difficult to make any generalizations regarding luxury in recession. Nevertheless the analysis and conclusion shown in chapter five and six will both be interesting and instructive.