the counter-elite won the meme war

but can they win the peace?

california casual affluence

A friend brings me to an inappropriately young Halloween party in Laurel Canyon. Twenty-three year-old former child actors—the boys in suits I see at Tenants and Silver Lake Lounge—are living a casually affluent lifestyle in the Hills: a West Coast version of the Bruce Weber aesthetic deployed in Abercrombie and Fitch’s iconic…