FETISH NIRVANA
If it were your first time in a Chinatown, you would be forgiven for reading the love of plastic gold adornments, ingot-shaped foodstuffs, and fake designer goods as an outmoded ‘kitsch’1 or worse, a crazed fetishist’s worship of wealth. Indeed, if you’ve ever had a Parisienne for a friend as I have had, you’d be inclined to agree that the Chinese enthusiasm for endlessly repeating monograms epitomises gaudy: if money talks and wealth whispers, then the excessively branded Louis Vuitton handbag may constitute screaming.
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