At Soho House, Rejects Became the New Snobs

Avant Garde

Blackballed by traditional gentlemen’s clubs, London’s “creatives” created their own versions. Now they’re the ones making everyone wait to get in.

Published Aug. 15 2015 12:01AM EDT

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LONDON — Nobody does snobbery like the Brits. They’ve had centuries to nurture it, and it persists through every supposed social revolution. Snobbery just keeps taking on new forms, insidious and adaptable, constantly morphing like a chameleon.

Its latest form, as potent in America as it is in the old country,...

Clive Irving

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At Soho House, Rejects Became the New Snobs

Blackballed by traditional gentlemen’s clubs, London’s “creatives” created their own versions. Now they’re the ones making everyone wait to get in.

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Clive Irving