aesthete

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She’s an aesthete run amok, determined to deface anything that doesn’t live up to her impossible standards.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

He added: "Carpenter is above all a brilliant aesthete, her videos and album artwork uniformly inspired."

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

Ludwig II of Bavaria was a zealous aesthete with enough personal wealth to treat part of what is now Germany as an architectural canvas.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

A devastatingly handsome, unimaginably wealthy aesthete, Farrell considers style his armor — “a form of protest, against gross inhumanity or inclement weather.”

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

A product of upper-tier English society, he was also an aesthete and idealist with decidedly romantic sensibilities.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer