{"id":1995551,"date":"2009-10-11T20:01:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T18:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2009\/10\/11\/who-is-bobo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:21:19","slug":"who-is-bobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2009\/10\/11\/who-is-bobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Bobo?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French Bobos design their lifestyles in a mix that includes the rarest luxuries, middle-class classics, senior citizen string-collecting strategies and student-style cheap &#8216;n&#8217; chic.<\/p>\n<p>Bobo sightings began in the French press late last summer, but almost all the reports failed to acknowledge that the term doesn&#8217;t have its origins in France. It comes from a book by David Brooks called &#8220;Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There,&#8221; published this year in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks&#8217;s definition of the group as <strong>&#8220;highly educated folk who have one foot in the bohemian world of creativity and another foot in the bourgeois realm of ambition and worldly success&#8221;<\/strong>.<br \/>\nHe points out Bobos&#8217; shortcomings &#8211; &#8220;self-absorbed and narcissistic&#8221; &#8211; while praising their ability to live a pleasurable and constructive life without suffering from guilt, nor closing themselves off to outside influence.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/antoine-et-lili-paris-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"antoine-et-lili-paris\" title=\"antoine-et-lili-paris\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/antoine-et-lili-paris-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/antoine-et-lili-paris.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Bobos design their lifestyles in a mix that includes the rarest luxuries, middle-class classics, senior citizen string-collecting strategies and student-style cheap &#8216;n&#8217; chic. Bobo sightings began in the French&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52709],"tags":[53501,53502,30192],"class_list":["post-1995551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thefashion","tag-bobo","tag-lifestyle","tag-paris-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}