Word of the Day: cachet

The word cachet has appeared in 88 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 28 in “Nepo Babies Crowd the Runways” by Elizabeth Paton:

Fashion’s fixation with celebrity scions is not new. Gigi and Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Kaia Gerber — many of the world’s current batch of successful models were born to the rich and famous. (In the case of Ms. Gerber, whose mother is Cindy Crawford, it helps to have a bona fide supermodel to thank for her genes.)

… “There’s a race on now to secure the latest progeny to come of age, and a sense of cachet for the brand that gets to book the latest nepo on the block as a model or friend of the house,” Ms. Greene said.

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