Rock chick chic

Hannah Betts says sexy glam is back on top of the charts

QUIET LUXURY — AREN’T you just sick of it? Behold, the stealth-wealth tropes that 11-year-old TikTokers side-eye as #oldmoneyaesthetic, while otherwise being barely literate. It was the beginning of the end of HBO’s Succession wot did it. Behold, we chavs’ final opportunity to train-spot the logo-less, yet far from unreadable Loro Piana baseball caps (£440-£2,400) sported by its patriarch and young pretender, Brunello Cucinelli polo shirts (from £440), and Max Mara everything else. If the garb donned by the cashmere cognoscenti can whisper rather than shout, it’s because we scumbags lean in to scrutinise it. As if to rub our noses in this, Succession went meta on us with Tom Wambsgans’s Burberry bag disquisition: 2023’s take on Miranda Priestly’s blue jumper oration in The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Cousin Greg…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2023

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