Luxury brands are bleeding customers as dupes take over. The ultra-rich are turning to new ways to signal wealth as luxury dupes, weight-loss drugs, and cosmetic procedures become more accessible to ...

Beauty mogul and Rhode founder Hailey Bieber recently posted a a series of editorial photos on her Instagram to tease an upcoming collaboration with Fila. One of the pictures is not like the rest. In ...

Forget a fancy car or multiple foreign holidays a year, having three children is fast becoming the ultimate status symbol. Many of the nation’s most beloved mothers have a triptych brood in tow, from ...

Status symbols often shift over time, depending on the nature of our society and the beliefs of the people operating within it. However, it's possible for different communities, groups, and ...

While status symbols have almost always been characterized in a game of "having what others can't," focused on material goods and consumerism, recent shifts in the collective experience and perception ...

People have always found ways to flaunt their social status and wealth. These days, it could be a high-end vehicle or a high-end purse. It was all about the largest television or the appropriate watch ...

Digital flex matters just as much as physical ones these days. Crypto wallets have completely transformed - they're not just storage solutions anymore but full-on status symbols. The younger ...

Each generation cultivates their own emblems of success. In the past that might have looked like owning a car or holidaying abroad. More recently shows of affluence have entailed owning a new-fangled ...

Travel has overtaken luxury vehicles as the primary symbol of having "made it" among mass affluent Americans, according to the Forbes Research 2025 Mass Affluent Survey. We polled more than 1,000 ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. If someone drives a fancy car, we assume they’re ...