{"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\" data-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 lazyload\" data-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\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/250;\" \/><\/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. 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