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  • This works in a strange reversal of past practice, a kind of fashionista oroborous: designer clothes are fashionable because their expense implies wealth and status in the wearer, but their pricing is linked to random fashionability.

    A Rare Beauty « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • This works in a strange reversal of past practice, a kind of fashionista oroborous: designer clothes are fashionable because their expense implies wealth and status in the wearer, but their pricing is linked to random fashionability.

    2008 June 09 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

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