Kanye West with designer Marc Jacobs showing off one of the sneakers the musician designed for Louis Vuitton. Photo: Louis Vuitton

Two researchers in the Netherlands have confirmed that we’re a world full of label whores.

In a study where participants were shown pictures of people wearing a shirt with a Lacoste label, a Tommy Hilfiger label, a lower-tiered Slazenger label, or no label at all, the people wearing the Lacoste and Hilfiger labels were perceived as higher status and wealthier than the people in the other photos.

Taking it a step further, participants were shown video of people wearing or not wearing a logo on their clothing during a job interview. The interviewees wearing the logo were seen as better candidates and would’ve gotten nine percent more pay.

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After less than a year, Fleishman-Hillard owned Paul Wilmot Communications closed its Los Angeles office.

“It was always meant to be an experiment…I opened up the Los Angeles office to see if there was business for us out there, and we just didn’t find it,” Wilmot told Fashion Week Daily. PWC clients include Oscar de la Renta, Tommy Hilfiger, the Whitney Museum, and the American Ballet Theater.

Wilmot will retain several LA clients and service them out of the agency’s New York office.