The Mythology of Quiet Luxury (with Amanda Mull)

This is the director's cut episode for Mina's how do rich people actually dress? video, with explorations on hypergamy, cosplaying as poor, and a special interview with Amanda Mull on the mythology of quiet luxury! Keep up with High Brow on Instagram! Subscribe to the Patreon! and keep up with Mina on Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok! SOURCES Changing patterns of conspicuous consumption: Media representations of luxury in second homes by Trudie Walters   African American Dress by Helen Bradley Foster The Structure of Indian Society: Then and Now By A.M. Shah Alimony panic, gold diggers, and the cultural foundations of early twentieth-century marriage reform in the United States by Brian L Donovan How the Great Recession influenced a decade of design How Do Recessions Impact Fashion Trends? Beyond the Hemline Index How 2 recessions changed what we wear Fashion trends in an uncertain economy | Reuters What is Recession Core? - FASHION Magazine Recession Core Just An Opportunity For Celebrities To Cosplay Being Poor If You Pay Attention to One Trend This Season, Make It “Quiet Luxury” Why do we buy into ‘stealth wealth’ and the class who wear it? | Fashion | The Guardian Why the super-rich love understated dressing - BBC Culture There’s Nothing Silent About Quiet Luxury The End of Hypergamy: Global Trends and Implications - PMC Sofia Richie Grainge and the Fantasy of the Young Rich Wife | Glamour The Female TikTokers Rebranding Gold-Digging As ‘Hypergamy’ Justine Lupe on Willa, the Sex Worker Tied Up in ‘Succession’ – Rolling Stone There's No Secret to How Wealthy People Dress The old black | Art | The Guardian I Tried Steve Jobs' Productivity Hack to Reduce My Decision Fatigue Fashion and the Evolving Vision of of Workwear | Grailed Carhartt Is the Uniform of Both the Right and the Left - Racked ‘Funny’ and unreal: How blue-collar workers feel about workwear as fashion Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter Edited by Sophie Carter Music by Olivia Martinez Cover by Lindsay Mintz