What is good taste, and how do you cultivate it?

Awkward Etiquette With Kiki Astor

In this enlightening episode, your Auntie Kiki steps out of her romance novelist slippers and leans into her identity as an etiquette coach and amateur social anthropologist. With a rich background in old money society, interior decorating, fashion, and history, Kiki Astor explores the essence of good taste and how to cultivate it in today’s world.

Listeners will gain insights into:

-What good taste is, and what it isn't, and the difference between your own personal tastes and the overarching idea of "good taste".

- The historical and cultural context of old money aesthetics and their influence on modern taste, and good taste.

-Whether "good taste" is only for the rich.

-Whether "good taste" is a synonym for "old fashioned," Eurocentric," or "antique." Can good taste be modern?

-Whether the "Old money Aesthetic" automatically means good taste.

-How to cultivate good taste.

-Practical tips for embodying good taste on a budget.

Tune in for a philosophical and practical discussion that will inspire you further in the art of living well!