All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry

The middle class is highly stratified.

Only those who join it just want to buy the most expensive mega-famous brands that they can afford. To make it clear that I'm not wearing a nouveau from the bazaar, but a Prada. Everything is perfect, everything is designed, not a speck of dust, not a single superfluous thing. The most important thing is to be the first to get something that is just starting to be fashionable.

Then comes the phase of obsession with everything organic, handmade and vintage.

And not for the first generation, based on being integrated into the world of culture and art, the horizons of an educated person. Do you remember this from Proust? Gauguin loved this combination. I bought this in Scotland.

That's really interesting, very interesting. It turns out that the bearers of the tastes of the hereditary aristocracy today are only the royal family and there may still be a couple of families at most. He was dressed like this in a striped suit. And that's how all the aristocrats would dress if they had money. But the aristocracy hasn't had money for 100 years and they don't buy anything at all, including clothes. They're wearing out Dad's and Grandma's. All income goes only to the maintenance of the estate, that is, so that the roof does not fall on your head at all.

Interesting.

In my opinion, it turned out that the most important distinguishing feature of the tastes of the working class is hypertrophiation. For women: I can't afford diamonds, but if a big hairstyle is in fashion, then I'll have the biggest one, even if it's once a week when I go out. Are heels in fashion?-I'll buy myself such high ones that it's impossible to even stand on (I'll stand barefoot and put them on for photos))). The men have different things, I can't afford a Ferrari, but the audio speakers in my car will be the most powerful, so that the windows in the houses rattle.

And the second depends on age: young people want to have the most beautiful things on themselves (so that everyone can see), and the elderly want some interior things that they have liked since childhood.

And the third thing, as it seemed to me, he noted, the lack of separation, people spend more time with their community, living in one spirit. Even though it only happens on weekends. Football unites us the most.

I wonder how much he sold this triptych of his then?
PS It turned out that he has a whole series. The smallest one-and-a-half-meter tapestries are 7,500 pounds each.

I forgot to write about the tastes themselves. It turns out that aristocrats cannot have their own preferences in clothes, as well as follow fashion. You need to dress as classically as possible, appropriate for the occasion and the hosts.