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Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
- “Just look at the return of indie sleaze,” she says. “This gauche aesthetic is a symptom of our cultural transition from taste to tastelessness. Where pre-pandemic style was defined by the careful curation of cool, young people are now pushing back against refinement by reclaiming the carelessness that comes with being chaotic, tacky and anarchic.”
from ‘What’s the point?’ syndrome, and why we all feel so disconnected right now by marie-claire chappet
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So there’s a weird thing going on where there’s abundance, and yet, at the same time, we’ve become really conservative about our own styles, because people fundamentally don’t want to adopt things that feel inauthentic to them, or will be judged inauthentic.
And because culture is so ephemeral, there’s just more stuff that people are worried that —
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