quiet luxury

English

Noun

quiet luxury (countable and uncountable, plural quiet luxuries)

  1. A form of inconspicuous or subdued luxury, often by lesser-known brands.
    • 2023 April 30, Eva Wiseman, “Why do we buy into ‘stealth wealth’ and the class who wear it?”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      Perhaps I would mind this “quiet luxury” less if the clothes were fabulous. But, instead, they’re bloodless, grandly bland, dreary.
    • 2023 October 7, Robert Armstrong, Lauren Indvik, “How to look rich”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 4:
      “Quiet luxury” is a kabuki performance of moneyed ease and indifference.
    • 2025 May 20, Marina Hyde, “Was this a hen do or a humanitarian mission to liberate Paris? Either way, give Lauren Sánchez an award”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      There was also an ostentatiously open-top boat ride down the Seine, where I think the ladies went to view the floating corpse of a trend once known as “quiet luxury”.

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