The New Fashion Snobs: Anti-Capitalists
It's not about money anymore--it's about "taste." Which costs money.
When you think of the fashion industry, and Fashion People who are “in the know” you probably think of rich people. Or at the very least, young, artsy cosmopolitan people who are upper class enough to be adjacent to wealth even if they don’t actually have lots of money. Anna Wintour is famously not a woman of the people.
But there’s a new brand of fashion snob in town—okay, by “town” I mean “the Internet,” but bear with me—and their trademark is mixing the fashion snobbery of the cattiest editor at Vogue with seemingly-discordant far-left politics and a hatred of “capitalism.”
I’ve been noticing this archetype for a while now, where certain leftists have nominally divorced the concept of taste from money, and therefore feel it’s politically consistent to mock women who are conservative, or just seem vaguely uncultured and normie-coded, for their “tasteless” clothes—often clothes which appear inoffensive to 99% of the population.
