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The Mythology of Quiet Luxury (with Amanda Mull)

High Brow

High Brow

Society & Culture

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

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!

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Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter
Edited by Sophie Carter
Music by Olivia Martinez
Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, welcome to highbrow. My name is Meena Lay, and I will be a host today.

0:20.0

And every day, because I am the only host of

0:22.6

this podcast, I don't know why I always say that. Um, today we're going to be talking about

0:27.8

the way rich people dress and particularly quiet luxury and stealth wealth because those have been

0:33.8

massive buzzwords in the past couple months. I actually think I'm pretty late to this conversation,

0:39.1

but in my defense, in my defense,

0:42.0

I was talking about it in previous episodes,

0:45.3

just kind of like here and there.

0:47.3

And I don't know, I just realized that there was enough information there

0:53.1

that I could put together an entire episode on it.

0:57.1

And that's kind of what I'm doing today.

1:00.8

This is actually an extended version of a video published on Monday, but extended in the

1:07.2

sense that I invited Amanda Mull to do an interview with me at the end.

1:13.6

And if you don't know Amanda Mull, she is a very talented writer.

1:17.1

I've been following her work for the Atlantic for a couple years.

1:22.3

I actually been working that long.

1:23.7

It feels like it's been years.

1:25.5

Maybe it's been months.

1:26.4

It feels like it's been years. But I's been months. It feels like it's been years.

1:29.3

But I've been following her for a while.

1:36.4

And I brought her on because she wrote this really great article called Stealth Wealth is a fake trend,

1:39.5

which, you know, we'll talk about it.

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