Power Trip

A Brief History of the Power Suit

From the French court to JFK to Patrick Bateman in ‘American Psycho’

cintra wilson
GEN
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11 min readOct 11, 2018

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Illustration: Noah MacMillan

Thus fashion on one hand signifies union with those in the same class, the uniformity characterized by it, and, uno actu, the exclusion of all other groups.

—Georg Simmel, 1904

Accreted power…

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cintra wilson
GEN
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