why do we want fashion to be exclusive?

why do we want fashion to be exclusive? Fashion has always been about more than just clothes; it’s a way we communicate our identity, our status, and what we want other people to see in us. But what happens when the things that make us feel special become accessible to everyone? In this video, I’m getting into the psychology and history behind fashion exclusivity, Fashion Week, mimetic dominance, fast fashion, and why the internet has made the trend cycle absolutely insane. Like Vivienne Westwood once said: “Buy less, choose well, make it last.” Also, sorry for the slightly clipped audio in a few parts of this video, I did my best to fix it! Thanks for watching 🤍 SOURCES & FURTHER READING The New York Times — “The Frontier of Algorithmic Fashion”    • ‘The Frontier of Algorithmic Fashion’   Chicago Booth Review — “How Human Psychology Explains Exclusive Brands and Exclusionary Policies” https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/h... Imas, Alex & Kristóf Madarász. (2020). “Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion: Private Goods in Public Context.” https://hceconomics.uchicago.edu/rese... Kuziemko, Buell, Reich & Norton (2014) — “Last-Place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjt035 Castagna, Duarte & Pinto (2022) — “Slow Fashion or Self-Signaling? Sustainability in the Fashion Industry,” Sustainable Production and Consumption https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... History Guild — “A Brief History of Fashion as a Status Symbol” https://historyguild.org/a-brief-hist... Maw, Peter (2021) — “Provincial Merchants in Eighteenth-Century England: The ‘Great Oaks’ of Manchester,” The English Historical Review https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...