Conspicuous consumption in retrospect

The act of consuming, is an absolute and complex act, is a movement by which a man not only satisfies the material need, but he expresses himself, he fulfills himself, generates a certain meaning, produces and calls upon certain signals. Every option he has for consumption becomes part of his language, it has to do with time, history, culture, it deals with status and community. Displays differentiation or belonging, exclusion or intrusion. I wanted to show the different but then so similar the ...