How 'cheugy' is your style? Here are five ways to find out
If cheugy sounds hard to define, that’s because it is. It has been likened to ‘basic’, the insult made famous by Kate Moss when she hurled it at a female Easyjet pilot in 2015 and which refers to people whose tastes are a little too obvious, generic or mainstream, and while it’s not as insulting, it’s clearly not a compliment either. “To me, cheugy is a lazy attitude,” says Isaac Hindin-Miller, a New York-based DJ and fashion influencer who has over 61,000 followers on TikTok. “It’s living your life paint-by-numbers-style, as dictated by Instagram. It’s drinking Starbucks ...