Sumptuary laws codified which classes could wear which garments.

A parvenu won’t just drive a Porsche but will also live in a luxury condo and enroll her children in the top private schools.

Teenagers in London’s working-class neighborhoods asked their local tailors to replicate the Savile Row look, while extending the long jackets to dramatic zoot-suit length

Most subcultural and countercultural innovation thus begins as bricolage—the mixing and matching of preexisting styles and objects to imbue them with new meanings.

To create within the framework of someone else’s stereotype makes the creator an epigone, and their work is mere “taste.”

The influence process for radical art is always an uphill struggle: works begin as an esoteric idiolect—symbols and ideas spoken and understood by a single person.