Quiet luxury is out. Loud, in-your-face wealth is booming.

Quiet luxury is out. Loud, in-your-face wealth is booming.

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Being wealthy in America has long come with the expectation to keep it a little bit secret. The nouveau riche may commit the faux pas of conspicuous consumption, but the real money — often code for old money — knows not to commit such sins. If anything, it's their decorum that betrays their status.

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