Brand Sluts means an obsession with consumerism but adapted and popularized by Marian Salzman in 2005 as a way to define consumers who flit from one brand to the next with no sense of fidelity to any one of them. While the connotation is negative, brand sluts are, in fact, savvy consumers.
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Mark and Nat, a married couple who are living in Kuwait. Mark is a creative director at an ad agency while Nat runs her own design studio called Push+Pull.
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I thought the word was Brand Whore
please no Rampurple. That would then make me a slut AND a whore.
I used to call you a Brand Whore before 2005.
brand whore is not the same as brand slut.
brand whore
Someone who buys and prominently displays name brand products (or products that feature large corporate logos) under the belief that such loyalty to a label or corporation is a chachet and brings prestige to their otherwise lack of taste, regardless of the actual quality or value of the products.
shit… i better go and take the ‘pajero’ badge off the back of my car immediately.
yeah brand whores are 90% of the female kuwaiti population.
The word “Blog Sluts” was missing from the list
HAHAHA @ mooch.
who on earth comes up with these dumb “now” phrases…
My favorite is DINK
DINK = Dual Income, No Kids.
ah… and some people say you don’t learn anything from blogs.
Brand whore
Brand Sluts
DINK
Why don’t you have word of the day, or phrase of the days. R rated sesame street?