It was a sunny Thursday evening in New York's Washington Square Park. People gathered there for one reason, and one reason only: a Labubu fashion show. On June 12, Labubu lovers strutted down the ...

Travel has overtaken luxury vehicles as the primary symbol of having "made it" among mass affluent Americans, according to the Forbes Research 2025 Mass Affluent Survey. We polled more than 1,000 ...

The concept of a "status symbol" is deeply embedded in human behavior. We often acquire certain items or strive for particular achievements to signal our standing, success, or desirability. However, ...

Did you ever meet someone who seemed to fall for almost any little trick in the book? In the world of status symbols, that seems to be the case all the time. Most of us average people tend to snap up ...

This summer, toned arms became the new status symbol—and a near-impossible to achieve beauty standard. Between Hollywood’s decades-long obsession with thinness and the recent swings of the ...

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again. Smart people don’t behave the same way that average people do. They see value in things that often end up being called “junk” or “meaningless” to others who ...