Luxury has made a subtle shift in how it communicates with the world. In 2026, the most coveted signs of status are not flashy, costly, or immediately recognizable and that is precisely the goal.

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 ...

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Add DMNews to your Google News feed. There’s a pretty significant gap between what Generation X considers status symbols and what younger generations find important. Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980, ...

Three-quarters of Americans say they plan to trade down, forgoing more extravagant purchases in the future. For decades, the markers of success in America followed a familiar script: bigger homes, ...

What counts as success is changing fast. Older generations often chase symbols that once meant you'd made it—fancy cars, corner offices, designer labels. But Gen Z sees things differently. They're ...

I still remember clutching a Beanie Baby in each hand at the age of five, begging my parents to buy me just one more. While these trends may seem harmless at first glance, they reflect a deeper ...

The root cause behind some of the most absurd and unprecedented popular cultural phenomena of the past year, from Trisha Paytas’ supposed congressional bid to Pantone’s color of the year being ...