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The Mystery of the $2,000 Ikea Shopping Bag
Polyvore 3.0 is all about luxury as membership, taste signaling and belonging to taste communities.
Ana Andjelic • Luxury x Culture
In order to protect exclusivity, stores had to commit to even larger buys, ordering more clothes than they could possibly sell. Then, when they couldn’t move the stuff, they’d return it. Thanks to the rise of fast fashion and the luxury market’s simultaneous attempt to keep up with its impossible pace, it all started to feel disposable. So detrimen... See more
Irina Aleksander • Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed
takes an incredible amount of labor to enable conspicuous leisure, and this labor upholds a gendered economy of value in which women’s bodies are assessed against men’s money. Bottle trains of champagne may seem irrational to a modern economist, but to an economic sociologist they are a type of ritual performance at the heart of hierarchical system
... See moreAshley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
The Distance Model of Status and Brands: Columbia Professor Silvia Bellezza came and spoke to us at Exposure.. It's the idea that old status signifiers used to go upmarket (more money, more access, more time) but when all of that has become democratized, our new model of status is about gaining distance from the mainstream. It so eloquently explain
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