W. David Marx is a writer on culture, fashion, and music living in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change. A former editor of the Tokyo New York street culture magazine Tokion, his work has appeared in VOX, Popeye, NewYorker.com, and Lapham's Quarterly. He lives in Tokyo.