ICYMI - Quiet Luxury is TikTok’s Latest Nonsensical Fashion Trend
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle is joined again by Nadira Goffe for a sequel to their August 2022 episode “What is A Clean Girl?” The two dive deep into TikTok’s latest favorite fashion trend: quiet luxury, or stealth wealth. The aesthetic’s adherents posits that rich people don’t dress in ostentatious labels, but instead communicate their wealth through brands like Brunello Cucinell, Loro Piana and The Row. Quiet luxurists point to figures like the Roy family from HBO’s Succession and Gwyneth Paltrow at her recent trial as examples of stealth wealth. But the trend, like it’s “old money” predecessor, is built on a fundamental misunderstanding of fashion, classism and racism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.4 | And I'm Nader Gough, and you're listening to I-CYMIMI. |
| 0:17.3 | In case you're missed it. |
| 0:18.4 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:20.2 | And we've got a rare Naderdaura double feature. |
| 0:24.5 | Naderer, welcome back. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey, hey, hey. |
| 0:32.1 | So, I have a question for you and it has nothing to do with the episode we're about to record. |
| 0:39.2 | Okay. |
| 0:40.7 | Shoot. |
| 0:41.8 | So on our last episode about the Tart F1 Bruhaha, you mentioned at the top of the show that you were reading Jonas Brothers fan fiction on YouTube. |
| 0:51.5 | And honestly, this has haunted me since you told me about it. So now I'm |
| 0:57.1 | going to put you on the spot and ask you to please, please, please share some of these YouTube |
| 1:03.4 | Jonas Brothers fan fiction with us. Please. Okay. So if you'll remember from the last episode, |
| 1:08.6 | I said something to the effect of my memory is horrible, which is true. |
| 1:12.3 | So I can't remember the specific ones that I was reading, and I'm unsure if they would still even be up on YouTube. |
| 1:19.9 | So I can't find them. |
| 1:21.5 | But basically, fans would use the video creator One True Media. |
| 1:26.5 | I don't know if you remember. Talk about a Walkdown Memory Lane, One True Media. I don't know if you remember. |
| 1:28.2 | Talk about a Walkdown Memory Lane. |
| 1:29.8 | One True Media was that gruel of making videos. |
| 1:33.2 | So they would use One True Media to make these videos with photos of the Jonas Brothers set to their music. |
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