Rich People Didn’t Used to Look Like This

Ms. Odell is the author of the Back Row newsletter and “Anna: The Biography.”

If you spend enough time around the very rich these days, it’s clear. People didn’t used to look like this because people naturally can’t look like this.

Models in a Paris Fashion Week show for the luxury brand Matières Fécales last month caricatured the 1 percent by wearing prosthetics that resembled post-op faces, including grotesque under-eye bulges, skin pulled up from their temples and lips that appeared unnaturally inflated and stitched at the edges. South Park depicted Kristi Noem with a face so Botoxed it melts off and scurries away. From the Met Gala to the........

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