Succession Fashion Is Full of Hidden Meaning

The Roy Household and their elite inside circle make use of a strict coverage of stealth wealth gatekeeping. Interlopers develop into instantaneous targets for not adhering to the invisible set of sartorial guidelines the Waystar Royco crew follows.

Enter the Corridor of Fame takedown Tom Wamsgans lobbed on the tragically middle-class date Greg Hirsch delivered to Logan Roy’s party in episode 1 of season 4. The younger lady’s crime? Bringing a tote-sized, logo-explicit Burberry bag.

“[…] she’s introduced a ludicrously capacious bag,” Wamsgans says. “What’s even in there, huh? Flat sneakers for the subway? Her lunch pail? I imply, Greg, it is monstrous. It is gargantuan. You could possibly take it tenting. You could possibly slide it throughout the ground after a financial institution job.” He is offended simply by being in her presence.

Costume designer defined the sartorial alternative in an interview with The Ringer. “We wished her to appear like she did not slot in, no matter was going to make her stand out within the crowd. And on this crowd, something that was too current, too apparent was going to get her kicked out of this home.”

Selecting a bag with Burberry’s conspicous plaid print was intentional. “We knew that [the bag] needed to outline what somebody who’s, for instance, center class, may aspire to assist inform their story that they’re transferring on up. She carries this bag as a result of she thinks it makes her look necessary and it backfires. We knew it needed to have some kind of emblem, and we did not need the brand to be so rarefied that she would not be capable of purchase it. So our aim was to drop it right down to her requirements of what she thinks is probably the most superb and refined — but it surely is not.”

It’s value noting that the bag in query retails for over $2,800. It’s an costly bag from an iconic, legacy luxurious model that almost all of us would take into account a privilege to personal, however not the Roys and people of their .0001% orbit. To them, it is worthy of sneers and disgrace. The bag itself is not a metaphor for gauche style, however somewhat it serves as a reminder of the cruelty and callousness of the Roy household and their associates.