BROADLY: What drew you to the idea of conspicuous consumption?
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Like workout culture, wellness is a form of conspicuous consumption.
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Their lives are lives of conspicuous philanthropy, not conspicuous consumption.
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Being duped by conspicuous consumption: Fashion is a contrived epidemic.
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As such, people use conspicuous consumption to demonstrate their achievement.
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Both males and females use conspicuous consumption in their profiles.
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If this isn't conspicuous consumption, I don't know what is.
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The status envy induced by conspicuous consumption may play a role.
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Dr. Warner points out that economic downturns affect depictions of conspicuous consumption.
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Orange City residents exhibit a Calvinist work ethic that avoids conspicuous consumption.
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But new money, as Thorstein Veblen theorized, asserts itself through conspicuous consumption.
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To a big extent, eating fresh produce is a conspicuous consumption thing.
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Conspicuous consumption is designed to show others you are rich, smart, or important.
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In turn, that type of "conspicuous consumption" pressures neighbors into spending more themselves.
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It's no longer about getting lost in a fantasy of success or conspicuous consumption.
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The photographer and documentary director Lauren Greenfield casts a critical eye on conspicuous consumption.
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In North America, costly signals, through conspicuous consumption, is a more male-oriented strategy.
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Put away that Rolex, because there's a new conspicuous consumption totem on the block.
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And it illustrates the links between reality TV, conspicuous consumption, and the 2008 financial crisis.
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This era of conspicuous consumption came as Falwell's movement merged with the nascent Reagan Revolution.
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Conspicuous consumption became more acceptable, and businesses became more comfortable making distinctions between their customers.
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Stan's boss, Matt (James Van Der Beek), personifies the age's conspicuous consumption and velociraptor aggression.
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Defining "conspicuous consumption" as "apparel, watches, jewellery, cars and other socially visible goods", she finds that even though the poor must dedicate much of their income to basic necessities, they devote a higher share of their total spending to conspicuous consumption than the rich do.
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Verena Bahlsen has also been criticized for boasting about her wealth and love of conspicuous consumption.
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Kirk Amaral Snow's Conspicuous Consumption is a minimalist cardboard structure that reframes vernacular architecture and infrastructure.
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But films in the latter category seem surreal in the context of the Festival's conspicuous consumption.
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Natural wine suited the anxious conspicuous consumption of our times; it was both virtuous and indulgent.
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It laid out the idea that some goods and services are bought simply for conspicuous consumption.
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In Veblen's mind, conspicuous consumption was spending more money on items than they are really worth.
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Verena Bahlsen was earlier criticised for boasting about her wealth and her love of conspicuous consumption.
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Wax candles were another form of conspicuous consumption, as well as a nod to religious significance.
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I am not sure just where the line of conspicuous consumption is, but this sure crosses it.
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For producers of conspicuous-consumption items, such cost-cutting does not conquer the market but destroys it.
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This is because in North America, costly signals, through conspicuous consumption, is a more male-oriented strategy.
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Furthermore, rhino horn is not just being used for traditional Chinese medicine, but also for conspicuous consumption.
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Both of them looked down on the unabashed conspicuous consumption that came to signify the Reagan era.
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In the early '90s, purchase of contemporary art began to eclipse all other forms of conspicuous consumption.
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The name Trump conjures up a certain level of extravagance: private jets, gilded furniture and highly conspicuous consumption.
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While some liquor importers and a certain kind of conspicuous-consumption bar struggled, it also created an opening.
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It was a form of product placement, and going to the ballet became a form of conspicuous consumption.
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Keeping up with the Joneses used to mean matching the (often environmentally destructive) conspicuous consumption of one's neighbours.
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But social housing undermined the position of landlords, and the bourgeoisie felt targeted by taxes on conspicuous consumption.
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And then there are those who are opting for familial experiences and helping local charities over conspicuous consumption.
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The slowdown in China's economy and a clampdown on conspicuous consumption there has since hit luxury brands hard.
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In the 1970s and '80s, home builders used it extensively in advertisements, perhaps to make conspicuous consumption seem patriotic.
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It establishes the rapport between Dux and Borman while lampooning conspicuous consumption and filling in the lore of the game.
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On her snappy breakout single, "Royals," she rolled her eyes at the hedonism and conspicuous consumption of the Top 40.
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Plus, this gamble involves bringing in the Golden Company, a mercenary subculture that believes in kicking ass and conspicuous consumption.
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LATIN AMERICANS are well known for their love of the fiesta and, when they can afford it, their conspicuous consumption.
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Today, mass production and an abundance of cheap knockoffs have rendered conspicuous consumption unremarkable at best and gauche at worst.
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When Biggie stayed Gucci down to the socks in the nineties, conspicuous consumption was done in-store and in person.
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In the last year, though, the specter was raised, fleetingly, that substance may trump conspicuous consumption in red carpet form.
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"7 Rings," Ariana Grande's recent ode to conspicuous consumption, was inspired by "My Favorite Things," a song from the show.
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Amid these temples of conspicuous consumption are two of Miami's newest museums, right next to each other, and both free.
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Sky-high executive pay is a touchy topic in Japan, where conspicuous consumption is frowned upon and wealth gaps are contentious.
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It was on the set of Entourage that I began to realize our level of conspicuous consumption was out of control.
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International travel is becoming the new conspicuous consumption, with photos of unique destinations beamed out through WeChat and other social media.
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In Brazil, both men and women hope to catch mates based on the conspicuous consumption and luxurious products on their profiles.
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As a respite from the conspicuous consumption associated with suburban developments, the Sea Ranch was intended to be communal and inconspicuous.
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Sales of cognac and other luxury goods fell in China following a government crackdown on corruption and conspicuous consumption in 2014.
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That event became a cultural flash point, spun into an existential crisis on Wall Street about the evils of conspicuous consumption.
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In the late nineties, conspicuous consumption wasn't really a thing for the teenagers in the largely white suburban enclaves of New England.
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A thousand-dollar smartphone is the perfect conspicuous consumption item with which to establish yourself as king or queen of the cafeteria.
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Hip hop is still a genre that revels in braggadocio and conspicuous consumption, and Mr Lamar is no different from his peers.
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A monument to celebrity and conspicuous consumption, the tower was home to the likes of Johnny Carson, Steven Spielberg, and Sophia Loren.
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Sales of luxury goods are rising, after a slowdown in China and less conspicuous consumption put a damper on them last year.
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While conspicuous consumption of foreign luxury brands dominated the narrative for older Chinese, millennials are instead looking abroad for lifestyle and travel.
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Although vodka is traditional for toasting, Champagne and Cognac are also popular now in Russia, representing the new pleasures of conspicuous consumption.
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We are in the age of Trump, and, clearly, some forms of attempted snobbery will always take the form of conspicuous consumption.
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Spurning "conspicuous consumption," a favorite phrase, may seem far-fetched for a country that just elected Donald J. Trump to be president.
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A popular U.S. television series, Showtime's "Billions", also plays on the industry's negative stereotypes, including risky investing, insider trading and conspicuous consumption.
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Macau's gross gaming revenue tumbled by a third, or some $15 billion, in 2015 as high rollers shied away from conspicuous consumption.
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The director also blunts the potentially inflammatory impact of this type of conspicuous consumption by showing moments of camaraderie between man and beast.
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The finding that busyness has become a status symbol turns Thorstein Veblen's idea of conspicuous consumption among the "leisure class" on its head.
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Mr. Fleck and Ms. Boden, specialists in social dramas, are an appropriate choice for an episode that's more about psychology than conspicuous consumption.
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Although the justly-famous thinker had already understood the psychological and economic dynamics of "conspicuous consumption," he also feared and loathed these dynamics.
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Whether it's her as Dominique Deveraux or trans kids today who can't use a bathroom, there's more at stake than just conspicuous consumption.
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All that said, yes, conspicuous consumption is a kind of signaling too — a bad kind, for reasons that go far beyond climate change.
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"Unlike western vacations, which Soviets perceived as vulgar pursuits characterized by conspicuous consumption and idleness, holidays in the USSR were decidedly purposeful," Omidi writes.
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From the top to the bottom of the income spectrum, people use conspicuous consumption and other means of enhancing their image to project status.
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Extreme wealth inequality and uber-conspicuous consumption have far reaching consequences that will manifest — sooner than we think — in the effects of climate change.
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It is because identities and values aren't taken for granted that acts of conspicuous consumption (or, in Morris's case, conspicuous destruction) become so appealing.
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Both groups were known for setting nonsensical lyrics to fun, irreverent music, and this song about conspicuous consumption has her playing to those strengths.
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Inconspicuous consumption is replacing conspicuous consumption — the rich are forgoing material goods to invest in immaterial means as a way to signify status. 2.
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In "The Theory of the Leisure Class", published in 1899, Thorstein Veblen, a Norwegian-American economist, explored the nature of what he termed "conspicuous consumption".
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With statistics like these, it may be easier to understand why there is more of a need to use conspicuous consumption pictures to demonstrate desirability.
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It has long seemed as if it is the theater of the World Cup — the display of wealth, the conspicuous consumption — that appeals to Qatar.
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" (The memoirs themselves sometimes function as lifestyle porn.) Surrounded by conspicuous consumption, Reichl refers to the quadrumvirate of other powerful Condé magazine editors as "AnnaGraydonDavidPaige.
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The billionaires would still have enough left over to indulge their longing for mega-yachts, personal space ships, private tropical islands, and other conspicuous consumption.
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There's also the widely known idea of "conspicuous consumption, " which theorizes that certain luxurious expenditures have no other meaningful purpose than to build social status.
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We're in a perfect political and socioeconomic climate and time in history to take a mocking look at the perils of conspicuous consumption and status obsession.
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Instead, he scammed his way into the Manhattan social scene, wielding the same signifiers of wealth — the Ivy League schools, the model wives, the conspicuous consumption.
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"We feel these shows are mostly staged and place an emphasis on vanity, greed, promiscuity, vulgarity, and over-the-top conspicuous consumption," wrote the petition creator.
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" The reason: "Our attitude toward spending and debt has changed, as well, and the bursting of the housing bubble has deflated our love of conspicuous consumption.
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And despite sitting on the world's strategic reserve of conspicuous consumption, Hakan Uzan, the aforementioned Turkish exile, decided it was best to liquidate and move on.
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Magazines, newspapers, websites and TV stations aimed at an LGBTQ readership feature the same barrage of commercial ads dedicated to conspicuous consumption that mainstream media do.
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The joke is that she's perky and annoying while espousing the virtues of eco-consciousness via conspicuous consumption (metal straws, fancy water bottles, Birkenstock sandals, etc.).
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Beijing can be sensitive to extravagant displays of wealth as Xi's administration cracks down on conspicuous consumption among government officials in a bid to stamp out corruption.
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Paul Manafort's $15,000 ostrich skin jacket and other evidence of the former Trump campaign chairman's conspicuous consumption grabbed the headlines during his tax and bank fraud trial.
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Conspicuous consumption, like that dreadful word "luxury," feels dated: as '80s as Nan Kempner and leveraged buyouts, as '90s as the Miller sisters and tiny Prada backpacks.
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Young homebuyers with different attitudes toward conspicuous consumption are also killing off the McMansion, a sprawling, often architecturally mismatched home boasting several thousand square feet of space.
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Business Insider's Madeline Stone reported on the style's slow demise back in 2017, citing the influence of shifting attitudes toward conspicuous consumption in the post-recession era.
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Unlike the genteel, discreet spending habits often associated with old money — and, more recently, with faux-frugal billionaires — the falling stars meme is all about conspicuous consumption.
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But in the generation since Walton's death, the culture around Walmart's world HQ in Bentonville reflects more conspicuous consumption, and its churches are relatively short on brimstone.
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And maybe we see her as a badass because, in the spectacle of fantasy and conspicuous consumption and imbalance toward the heart or libido, Miranda is the rebel.
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Sure, owning the latest and greatest Apple product was still a cultural signifier, however, what it signified was less cultural cache and more a proclivity toward conspicuous consumption.
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If criticisms of conspicuous consumption were once rooted in anti-materialism or antipathy toward the rich, today they are more likely to carry undercurrents of sexism and racism.
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President Xi Jinping of China has cracked down on signs of conspicuous consumption and also guided the country's ruling Communist Party to a new primacy in everyday life.
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But then, while New Jersey has become increasingly diverse, it's also a place where dollar signs largely determine status and conspicuous consumption is celebrated as an inalienable right.
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This beauty goes beyond aesthetics and is imbued with a world of ideological commentary dealing with colonialism in Africa, the politics of representation, conspicuous consumption, and the environment.
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Since Thorstein Veblen coined the term "conspicuous consumption" more than a century ago, the rich have typically been represented as competing for status by showing off their wealth.
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But what will probably convince people to update their devices – at higher prices – is that they are visually appealing, take better pictures, and afford the chance for conspicuous consumption.
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Or, like so much conspicuous consumption, is the real pleasure in spending that much money on sex simply the thrill of knowing you're loaded enough to afford do so?
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Mr. Azria created BCBG Max Azria in Los Angeles in 21980 as a practical alternative to the expensive, ornate styles that proliferated during the conspicuous consumption of the 217s.
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DENZEL CURRY Bare-chested and sweaty, working the entire stage, Denzel Curry, from Florida, took on gangsta-rap topics: battles for power, conspicuous consumption, drug deals, women, omnipresent death.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - Paul Manafort's $15,000 ostrich skin jacket and other evidence of the former Trump campaign chairman's conspicuous consumption grabbed the headlines during his tax and bank fraud trial.
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He started living a empty, glamorous conspicuous-consumption lifestyle that had him partying on yachts and rubbing elbows with the likes of Richard Branson, Bruce Willis and soccer superstar Ronaldo.
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GENERATION WEALTH In a recent exhibition and a book — both called "Generation Wealth" — the photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield ("The Queen of Versailles") cast a critical eye on conspicuous consumption.
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While she got some attention for her conspicuous consumption–heavy Instagram account, until her speech at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night she was mostly, well, a college kid.
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The Milken Institute's annual conference attracts thousands of the world's most powerful people — from government, finance, medicine, Hollywood and the like — for a frenzy of high-powered networking and conspicuous consumption.
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As long as our American economy remains animated, at its core, by rabid conspicuous consumption and generally destructive trade wars, an accelerating process of class warfare will be our inevitable narrative.
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But even in these days of conspicuous consumption, it was a bit shocking when a brewery in Finland said, "hold my beer" and came out with a liver-flinching 1,000-pack.
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It's hard to imagine today, when department stores are mostly anonymous caverns of corporate strategy, but his store was as much a cult of personality as a place of conspicuous consumption.
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"[W]omen also engage in conspicuous consumption, and preliminary evidence suggests that biological factors (including hormones that relate to the menstrual cycle) are involved," the study said, citing multiple other studies.
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The single donkey and the single horse crossing the stage always seem gratuitous, and you have to wonder how long such conspicuous consumption can survive amid the company's current budgetary constraints.
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And while China continues to dominate overall global luxury spending — accounting for 30 percent — women are becoming an increasing force in that aspect of conspicuous consumption in the world's second-largest economy.
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Are the pigs to be interpreted as a symbol of conspicuous consumption, or perhaps a self-parodying remark about charging $1590 for a necklace with diamonds that spell out "Cheated for Cash"?
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Still being KISS, they hired a film crew to capture all the action for KISS Rocks Vegas, a DVD/Blu-Ray/double CD/hardcover photo book now available for your conspicuous consumption.
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President Xi Jinping's three-year-old campaign against official corruption has discouraged conspicuous consumption in China, hitting discretionary spending on everything from fine wine and jewelry to luxury cars, yachts and casino trips.
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He is witheringly hilarious about his talentless students, but his critiques of New York's culture, from conspicuous consumption to the gay bar, feel too simplistic for a writer of his age and depth.
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The conspicuous consumption on display occurs largely among wealthy women and teenage girls (a young Kim Kardashian makes an appearance), models and strippers, 4- and 5-year-old beauty pageant contestants and prom queens.
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But a corruption crackdown under Xi Jinping, the Communist Party's top leader, put a halt to conspicuous consumption, and the brands must remain wary of a yawning wealth gap that has developed in China.
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"Because not all men can compete with a strong physique, an alternative way to signal status is through conspicuous consumption," the authors of the study, originally published in the Journal of Marketing Research, stated.
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But as much as Lauren Greenfield's latest documentary, Generation Wealth, exposes the heights of excess abroad, the crux of her focus is how mired conspicuous consumption is with the myth of the American Dream.
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Only today, this form of conspicuous consumption is more abundantly apparent, thanks to social media sites like Instagram and Facebook, where pet owners can flaunt their animals alongside extravagant ephemera, such as Lamborghinis and speedboats.
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The book, which was a hit upon its initial release, would eventually be adapted into a movie in 2009 – right in the middle of the recession, when conspicuous consumption didn't sit so well with viewers.
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Casino revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau has boomed over the last 10 months, reversing a more than two-year slide that followed the peak of President Xi Jinping's campaign against corruption and conspicuous consumption.
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We sleep easily after buying these products, reassured that we are doing our part to fight climate change, and yet the color green also reminds us that we must one day leave such conspicuous consumption behind.
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A controversy erupted last summer, for instance, over conspicuous consumption by the daughter-in-law of the Iranian ambassador to Denmark, who had posted pictures of herself decked out in designer clothing and handbags on Instagram.
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Such is life for the luxe elites who crowded into the Upper East Side drill hall for the third spring edition of the Netherland-based fair, which continues to capitalize on its reputation for conspicuous consumption.
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Carrying out those pizza boxes like they are overpriced bottles of liquor destroys the lines between highbrow and lowbrow, turning that splashy, sparkler-enhanced show of conspicuous consumption that plagues every VIP club into a joke.
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He is a poster child of conspicuous consumption; an aggressively wealthy man obsessed with defending the myths of America's past that most Americans are growing more and more aware are only myths with each passing day.
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The prospective deal serves as another reflection of how he has transformed over the last two years, from a nerdy tech executive into a tabloid star mired in sex scandals, international investigations, and now, conspicuous consumption.
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Today, museum curators are promoting the view that conspicuous consumption is bad for the planet, that luxury items exclude those who can't afford them, and that designers need to acknowledge differently shaped and differently abled bodies.
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Much of Ishida's artwork centers on the human toll of Japan's economy in the 90s, when an era of extravagance and conspicuous consumption gave way to the bursting of an economic bubble and an ensuing national recession.
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Because of this tremendous level of conspicuous consumption, the WWE storyworld is constructed not just by writers, but by the crowd, ratings, and often, by the relationships between the wrestlers when they metaphorically take of their masks.
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The music of "Prayer Song" hovers with electric-piano chords and wordless backup voices; the lyrics are a kaleidoscopic, free-associative vision of Los Angeles, touching on lust, violence, gentrification, plastic surgery, masculinity, conspicuous consumption and religion.
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Maezawa, who recently grabbed headlines after his split from actress girlfriend Ayame Goriki, has gathered almost 7 million followers on Twitter with his mix of displays of conspicuous consumption and folksy pronouncements on the meaning of life.
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Anne Helen Petersen captured this shortly after Trump's election: In truth, Trump was a reality star just waiting for the reality age: No other medium portrays his impulse toward conspicuous consumption and conspicuous demonstrations of power as effectively.
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As well as a culture of extravagance and conspicuous consumption among some, others decry Qatar's "welfare syndrome" that has led a generation to believe it can live carelessly and be bailed out by relatives or a paternalistic government.
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After years wining and dining clients as a high-end real-estate wheeler dealer Tablelist founder Julian Jung was well aware of the trials and tribulations involved in giving prospects the good life and conspicuous consumption they wanted.
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The market share of store-brand formulas has risen, but it's still only about 12 percent — pretty minuscule for a market with little commercial advertising, no conspicuous consumption, and what amounts to a legal prohibition on product innovation.
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The artists captured reflections on the anxieties of life in the desert and Modernism, uncovering the colonial impulse of the expansion on native territories and the architectural commodification of its landscapes into sites of conspicuous consumption and pleasure.
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DE) (VW) will launch a top-end sedan in China on Friday that will compete directly with sister brand Audi and is aimed at buyers looking for luxurious yet less-flashy cars amid a nationwide crackdown on conspicuous consumption.
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Meanwhile, label whores both fictional (Carrie Bradshaw) and non- (Paris Hilton, the Kardashians) have turned conspicuous consumption into an aspirational career, while social media and selfies have spawned legions of spotlight-hungry supermodels — at least in their own minds.
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The latter Veblen was a critic of capitalism who coined the term "conspicuous consumption," and his idea foregrounds many of the former Veblen's struggles in the book, though the relationship between the two is never heavy-handed or obvious.
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Click here to view original GIFThe conspicuous consumption of these types of videos is something that is worth considering but in this case, we just have a lot of little things melting that didn't serve much of a purpose anyway.
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He's pitched the service to the principals at venture firms and the associates at investment banks — the men and women who can afford to engage in conspicuous consumption, just not too conspicuously and not too much consumption all the time.
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At the same time, the high-end of the housing market has softened, reflecting the aging of the Baby Boomers, many of whom are now looking to downsize their homes as they get older, and perhaps changing attitudes toward conspicuous consumption.
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There was a long period from the mid-90s to the late 2000s of conspicuous consumption and displays of wealth, but after about 2007, this stopped, and the really obvious evidence of this can be seen in new architecture in London.
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She revels in the wall hangings and armor that decorate it, and in its large kitchen — "if you're wondering why I'm fat, here you go," she proclaims as she glides into the room — but not in a conspicuous-consumption way.
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Ms. Grande's song is an extended reinterpretation of "My Favorite Things" from "The Sound of Music," with Ms. Grande changing the original's lyrics about innocent joys — "raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens" — to an anthem of empowerment through conspicuous consumption.
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She was one of the most vocal supporters of Tyler, the Creator, when he was at his most antisocial, and she made an unexpected appearance on a Rick Ross album, singing the hook to a particularly sleek ode to conspicuous consumption.
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DON'T: Build your personal brand around conspicuous consumption in a cultural moment when the political administration that employs your husband and supposedly represents the interests of the struggling Everyman is actively trying to distance itself from a hostile foreign oligarchy.
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He created a necklace made of pearls and Rolex watches, mocking the era's conspicuous consumption; a dress made of bras, lampooning the underwear-as-outerwear craze started by Madonna; a shirt with the arms tied, so that it became a straitjacket.
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"The Challenge" is stuffed with gilded emblems of that wealth, from golden motorcycles to imperial furnishings, although nothing speaks conspicuous consumption more loudly or appallingly than the image of a man driving a Lamborghini with his pet cheetah riding shotgun.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Conspicuous consumption, mostly liquid, has long been a feature of Singapore's annual APPEC oil gathering, but it is a more sober affair in 2016, as executives in the third year of an industry downturn keep a clear head for deal opportunities.
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"The change in taste has been an almost stereotypical obsession with status symbols and conspicuous consumption," explains Michael Pettis, an economics professor at Peking University and the owner of Maybe Mars, which he says is the largest independent music label in China.
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The conspicuous consumption, the suits, and the oxblood leather Rolls Royce seats are all still there, but they start to look a little different in the context of a bruised ego and a quest for redemption than they did in pure celebration.
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Chinese consumer tastes are maturing, women are more confident about buying for themselves and President Xi Jinping's drive against conspicuous consumption is likely diverting spending from flashy branded bags and accessories to sports and ath-leisure wear and the more discreet lingerie.
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But the sense of entitlement the high school is accommodating by spending public money to construct a parking lot that resembles "a luxury dealership" reflects an encouragement of conspicuous consumption that should be antithetical to the school's mission as an educational institution.
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His public displays of conspicuous consumption - he tweeted last month that his new jet's interior is being fashioned by luxury label Hermes, and he is considering buying a baseball team - stand out in a country where humility is seen as a virtue.
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"The use of the Pooey name and Pooey product in association with a product line of 'magical unicorn poop' is intended to criticize or comment upon the rich and famous, the Louis Vuitton name, the LV marks, and on their conspicuous consumption," the complaint said.
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For some visitors, MINT, a cash-only bar with offerings like fresh green juices, sparkling water, and Insta-worthy salads, is just a café—its accelerationist approach to conspicuous consumption and the branding of healthy lifestyles is nearly impossible to glean by just passing by.
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The company's tours are not exclusively museum-based, but where they are, "themes range from connoisseurship, the currency of art, art theft (alleged or not), and generally the ostentatiously wealthy and conspicuous consumption," wrote Nick Stropko, a marketing associate at Context, in an email.
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Informally described by locals as the "town that tin built," Ipoh grew from a sleepy village in the valley of the Kinta River to a hotbed of cabarets, night life and conspicuous consumption, a city fueled by the fortunes of the Chinese-mining towkays (bosses).
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Professor Dowd, who wrote more than a dozen books and taught for many years at Cornell University, drew on Marxism and Thorstein Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption to deliver what Todd Gitlin, a leftist sociologist himself, described as a "refreshingly undogmatic" view of economic history.
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While the conspicuous consumption of those around us can be fairly evident -- the neighbor's fancy new car, for example -- we often don't know the full picture of our peers' finances, like how much they earn, what they spend on groceries or their debt load.
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The case also comes at a difficult time for gambling revenues in the former Portuguese colony, which have slumped to five-year lows, as China's anti-corruption campaign has deterred conspicuous consumption by high rollers and as economic growth in the world's second-largest economy slows.
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This American Wife wasn't just an excuse for its creators and stars to recite their favorite lines from RHOBH and RHONY — although, yes, it was that — but also a transfixing, thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between gay male identity and the conspicuous consumption of Bravo's reality programming.
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Apple devices can be costly, but products that once felt utilitarian have become baubles of conspicuous consumption, their features only meaningful to a particular type of individual: the busy fitness freak, the gadget-head with a huge disposable income, or the person with an "Instagrammable life", for example.
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Also known as "pop surrealism," the genre has been met with resistance from the fine arts canon, but Shag is one of the few to become both financially and critically successful despite the label placed on his singular means of depicting postwar-era conspicuous consumption, sprawling suburbs, and booze-fueled poolside parties.
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Mark Kremer, the Dutch curator of "Show Your Wound," said he was attracted in particular to the title of the Beuys work, because he wanted to bring the notion of vulnerability and empathy into the context of an art fair, which is often seen merely as a locus of commerce and conspicuous consumption.
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At the end of the 19th century Thorstein Veblen, an American sociologist, decried the "conspicuous leisure" of the robber barons of his age, who set themselves apart through their ability to avoid labour; he went on to bemoan the "conspicuous consumption" of the working classes seeking to imitate the wealthy's access to luxury goods.
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It is the systems and values many of us hold in common — the competitive lure of conspicuous consumption, the insatiable engine of development, the universal corruption that fuels it — all of them obstructing any effort to reckon with environmental catastrophe, which has a confounding tendency to manifest itself long after the original gains have accrued.
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Washington (CNN)After spending eight years on the HBO television hit "Entourage," a show that promoted conspicuous consumption and immediate gratification, actor and ocean conservation advocate Adrian Grenier is now promoting the exact opposite: a "wholistic lifestyle and culture change," where people are committed to protecting the planet and building the future world in which they want to live.
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Behind the site's newly renovated front page, past the established merchants selling "new, fixed-price" goods, the hand-me-down myths of postwar America — middle-class dreams of job security and a decent wage, the virtues of conspicuous consumption and the disposable lifestyle, the equation of net worth with self-worth — are on the block at Buy It Now prices.
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Designed primarily by Nolan Miller and influenced by the strong silhouettes of 1940s movie actresses, the clothes, jewels and copious furs worn by Joan Collins, Linda Evans and their ilk — not for nothing was one character named Sable — signaled both the apex of conspicuous consumption in the 20th century and a new era of women asserting themselves in the workplace and beyond.
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P.O. crowd for whom a $400 dinner does not qualify as conspicuous consumption and for whom the prevailing California-lifestyle fantasy is less about heirloom tomatoes than recognizing inefficiencies in the international medical technology markets, flying first-class around the planet to cut deals at three-Michelin-Star restaurants in Hong Kong or London and then, back home, treating the kids to casual $2,000 Sunday suppers.
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"At a time when many New Yorkers are troubled by the security costs of a structure dedicated to the vanity of one man," Professor Ivan Gaskell, head of the Focus Gallery Project at Bard Graduate Center, said, "It seems worth recalling the 1853 Crystal Palace as a building devoted to conspicuous production rather than conspicuous consumption, though this didn't save it from eventually going up in flames."
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The evening was overwhelming in many ways: In the over-the-top vintage excess of the collection's furs and paillettes, a spectacle of conspicuous consumption so fabulous as to border on the obscene; in the chaotic scramble to find and claim one's seat, identified not by a number or a section but only by a tiny gold nameplate screwed discreetly onto each chair; but most of all, by the silence of the show once it began.
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By borrowing openly from the psychedelic movement, artist collectives such as Ant Farm, Fluxus and Art Workers' Coalition, as well as subcultures like the Merry Pranksters, the Nature Boys and, too, the rising environmentalist movement — some of which had emerged in response to the Vietnam War — these new communes tapped into an iconoclastic strain of society that embraced socialist ideals and Eastern philosophical tenets (including detachment, spontaneity and pacifism), rejecting many of the prevailing middle-class values of the time, including the primacy of the nuclear family and the zeal for conspicuous consumption (upon joining The Farm, for instance, all members took vows of poverty).
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