Stiletto Moody shoes are seen as a status symbol in the virtual world of Second Life.
More recently, Silicon Valley's tech elite has taken to buying and flying their own planes as a status symbol.
The new mind-set could mean involvement with philanthropy and other causes that could (at least partially) replace material luxury as a status symbol.
These beloved establishments are frequented by in-the-know locals, serving as a status symbol and as a place where important occasions like birthdays or anniversaries are feted.
It is a leading brand in emerging markets, seen as a status symbol in a few countries, and as we have gotten a taste of in the press, the brand does have a few tricks up its sleeve: innovations in keyboard technology, motion sensor technology, as well as in cloud computing that will meet the growing needs of enterprise customers.
Experts believe the tower was built as a flamboyant status symbol.
Now the phone that gets all the press, that is hailed as revolutionary (although how revolutionary is a hotly debated point, and best kept for another time), and is still seen as a powerful status symbol, is crashing in price.
While some have seen sales hits, industry observers say the rhetoric is unlikely to have a major impact on Apple's iPhone sales in the country as the handset remains a fashionable status symbol.
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As the flower became more popular, it became a highly sought after status symbol for people.
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Although whisky producers claim to detect the first signs of a revival, selling Scotch as the liquor to drink while playing pool or cruising the dance floor poses a risk to the drink's long-term status as an international symbol of success.
And there is one other thing the sobering fact that, as an international status symbol, manned space flight can also sometimes be something of a liability, especially for a normally secretive country such as China.
China's expanding economy, along with the financial woes of the European Union and the U.S., could usher in a new era in which the Forbidden City replaces the White House as the coveted status symbol.
At the same time, China is proving a boon to Coach's sales, as residents that have become more affluent buy the retailer's status-symbol bags.
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