What would be your ultimate status symbol? A survey by CardRates asked over 3,000 respondents what reigns supreme in Connecticut as the pinnacle of social prestige. What took the top spot? Owning a ...

In Beverly Hills, the most coveted feature in a celebrity compound is no longer a showpiece pool or a marble-clad foyer, it ...

Did you ever meet someone who seemed to fall for almost any little trick in the book? In the world of status symbols, that seems to be the case all the time. Most of us average people tend to snap up ...

Before influencers and verified badges, social status lived in tiny online flexes. Millennials still laugh about these early ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dumb phones as status symbols, a war on A.I. slop and bets on “The Real Housewives” should make the coming year interesting.

Our culture embodies mutually exclusive beliefs in tribalism and individual exceptionalism. Tribalism used to depend on family; over the past millennium, it increasingly has come to depend on wealth ...

Once a status symbol, now worthless junk A nostalgic look back at the decade of excess, the 1980s, reveals a time when conspicuous consumption reached new heights. Technology promised to revolutionize ...