If You Pride Yourself On Having Excellent Taste, You'll Want To

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Is good taste a quality?

“Good taste has never been a quality that I have aspired to. As a provocateur, I find it exceedingly difficult to provoke people by assaulting them with good taste. Furthermore, and not to be too Rumsfeldian about it, one cannot simply invoke the notion of ‘good taste’ without qualifying it. ...

What does good taste mean to you?

“If good taste means anything to me at all, it usually means not having to make a huge fuss,” says Mr Jeremy Lee, chef proprietor of London’s Quo Vadis restaurant. This art of simplicity should apply to everything – from your wardrobe to hosting a dinner party. ...

What makes a good taste?

Behind good taste is an understanding of what makes something worthwhile. It’s this that makes the if-you-know-you-know details of brands such as Maison Margiela and The Row so sought after. Such signs of quality mean much more than flashing a logo with no idea of its history. ...

What did Bourdieu say about good taste?

Pierre Bourdieu, a French philosopher known for his book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, was one of many to note that good taste was merely a way of a society’s ruling class to separate themselves from those less powerful. As soon as fashions were adopted by lower classes, they were no longer in good taste. ...

Are You capable of bad taste?

I am capable of bad taste - deliberately. You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste. It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. ...

Is it bad taste to be wise all the time?

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. ...