Taste is inescapable; it involves “the most everyday choices of everyday life, e.g., in cooking, clothing, or decoration,” the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu wrote in his 1984 book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. These choices can be symbolic of a range of things beyond just our aesthetic preferences, such as economic

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When we rely on “taste mimicking” in whatever form it takes, we might find that we ultimately aren’t satisfied with how our taste, or rather how the way we are approaching taste, is influencing our personal style. Because we are chasing a feeling or quality that we think the aesthetic, the item, will give us. If we sit too long in being informed by... See more