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...“We are ‘nouveau riche’,” says Fergal O’Brien, director of lobbying and influence at business confederation Ibec....
...Is it just that people who’ve gotten rich really quickly want Rolexes in particular, like these kind of nouveau riche crypto guys fixating on one object?...
...To the pastel palette associated with the Bridgertons and the nouveau riche acid brights of the Featheringtons, the Sharmas bring a mix of colours suggestive of their heritage, and their desire to assimilate...
...My own feeling is that this will not be a V or even a U-shaped recovery, but a downwardly trending W that has a high risk of turning into a L....
...[He] came to culture too late and had vulgar, nouveau riche, insecure notions of what culture is.”...
...Although desert modernism went out of fashion in the 1980s and 1990s – “when the nouveau riche came to Palm Springs and started to build in a faux Spanish, German, French or whatever style,” says Menrad...
...The most significant was a slowdown of demand in Asia, whose swelling ranks of nouveau riche consumers have been voracious buyers of high-end watches in recent years....
...‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990’, V&A Museum, London, September 24-January 15, www.vam.ac.uk Exhibition supported by Friends of the V&A with further support from Barclays Wealth...
...“We wish everyone could lead a simple life like us monks and not chase after famous brands and luxury lifestyles in the way the awful nouveau riche in our country do.”...
...These “grantees” included the All England Lawn Tennis Club that runs Wimbledon, the nouveau-riche Tesco supermarket chain and the South Atlantic islands of Tristan da Cunha....
...The US company, which has sold just 20 helicopters in China since entering the market in 1984, including several to Mr Zhang, expects demand from the country’s nouveau riche to lift annual sales to 10 to...
...The immediate target of their wrath is the gene patents held by Myriad Corporation over the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that have been implicated in breast cancer....
...That was the late 1980s and early 1990s, when art lovers griped as Van Gough paintings were spirited away by nouveau riche Japanese; and Americans choked at Hollywood studios passing into Japanese hands....
...But rapid economic change and the emergence of an elite nouveau riche has led to growing discomfort over income disparities....
...Snobbish hatred of the nouveau riche nabobs returning home with their Indian loot was mixed with a desire for revenge among those of London’s elite who had lost out in the company’s share-price collapse...
...The corporation, the family and the government seem to have picked a low point in the market to buy back shares from the public....
...He was born in 1954, the year, as he points out, of the famous Brown v Board of Education case which paved the way for US desegregation....
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