Our Old Ideas About Luxury Are All Deceased
And we're here for the revolution—with a new episode drop!
Please consider this incredible work by artist Bernhard Martin, entitled Cooks of Harmony, your visual accompaniment to the episode we just dropped in which we grapple with what luxury means to us (and maybe you?) in 2025—a year that thus far could be characterized as sewer debris wrapped in rotten seaweed. Should we just eat our gemstone rings before our faces melt into oozing collages of sticky rainbow slime?
Probably not. Maybe, instead, we hang in there. Maybe we talk it out. Maybe we remind each other that what we know to be important in this world is still necessary and fundamental to being a loving, decent person and an empathetic citizen. That’s what this episode is all about! It’s a conversation between friends about how we can do better—consume less, buy more mindfully, de-platform the culturally clueless—while keeping our sanity (and our gemstone rings) while the storms swirl around us.
We hope you’ll be able to relate, and that you’ll let us know if you have anything to add. Thanks for being a Rough Cut Newsletter subscriber and pod listener!