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Boom boom culture: fashion’s flashy, sleazy and sudden vibe shift
Trump is back in office, shame is seemingly out and greed is in – with conspicuous consumerism on the catwalks and beyond. Look around and you could be back in 1987 ...
Take Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Saxon in season three of The White Lotus, all golden tan and button-down shirts, and Mikey Madison’s titular, Oscar-winning role in Anora, complete with a Hervé Léger bandage dress and a six-figure sable coat. Tina Brown, the patron saint of celebrity culture, with her “black tie, red nails, whole big swirl” glamour (as recounted in an interview for her memoir The Vanity Fair Diaries), was the queen of New York. The film’s Armani coats, real furs and Cerruti power suits are not faithful to the book (Calvin Klein and Comme des Garçons refused to lend their clothes), but speak to Bateman’s empty yuppie aesthetic and are not far off what popped up on Milan’s catwalks (or what A$AP Rocky – and Rihanna – recently wore to court).
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