From Victoria Beckham’s working class childhood to gentrification in the streets of Fitzroy Melbourne… what’s with the obsession with appearing less wealthy than you really are? Let's unpack quiet luxury, 'homeless chic', Naarm-core and what this all means in the context of an oligarchy & increasingly splintered leftist spaces...
timestamps:
00:00 intro
02:42 quiet luxury in different fonts
10:31 Naarmcore, gentrification & ‘broke’ students
15:54 tall poppy syndrome
17:46 romanticisation of poverty
20:27 the oligarchy of it all
25:00 the empathy drought
27:17 final thoughts
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sources:
Yhara Zayd, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLgg8yrlKfg
Ibrahim Kamit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ar95KUIUsA&t=1s
Madisyn Brown, https://youtu.be/zK11FvzCRfA?si=m_uYEyjBy0uZLvLy
Claire Thorpe, Why the super-rich love understated dressing https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230405-how-stealth-luxe-took-over-fashion
Strike Magazine, The Horrific Nature Of Homeless Chic https://www.strikemagazines.com/blog-2-1/the-horrific-nature-of-homeless-chic
Zilla Gordon, Indigenous Australians ask for Melbourne TikTok creators to ditch the Naarmcore hashtag https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-09/naarmcore-tiktok-criticised-by-indigenous-australians-respect/101306144
Clothing the Gaps, What does Narrm mean? https://www.clothingthegaps.com.au/blogs/blogs/what-does-narrm-mean?srsltid=AfmBOopCb9mINlcl2XFp88u7a1EwePs_-MzojhW1p8Yxork8p-BKWkKZ
History of Fitzroy, https://fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au/about/history-of-fitzroy/
Tara Heimberger, Eat the Rich: Satire and Marxism in Ready or Not https://www.english.org/pdf/publications/sigmatd-rectangle-review-2022.pdf#page=225
Zoe Williams, Billionaires like Elon Musk don’t just think they’re better than the rest of us – they hate us https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/billionaires-elon-musk-hate-us-ultra-wealthy-climate-crisis
Lennard J Davis, JD Vance is no pauper − he’s a classic example of ‘poornography,’ in which the rich try to speak on behalf of the poor https://theconversation.com/jd-vance-is-no-pauper-hes-a-classic-example-of-poornography-in-which-the-rich-try-to-speak-on-behalf-of-the-poor-236209
Tom Kemeny, Joel Suss and Dylan S Connor, ‘GEOWEALTH-US: Spatial wealth inequality data for the United States, 1960–2020’ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03059-9
Nadira Goffe, ‘Why Selena Gomez Is Facing Backlash From Liberals and Conservatives Alike’ https://slate.com/culture/2025/01/selena-gomez-crying-video-parker-instagram-deportation-mexican-ice-trump.html
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