faux-hemian 

A person who lives a nominally bohemian lifestyle but has family money to fall back on.

That Virginia Woolf, and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group, are bunch of faux-hemians.

faux-hemian by ealanm October 27, 2007

faux-hemian 

One who imitates the look of bohemians, but is just a poser. A faux-hemian pretends that they just "throw" their messy outfits together, when really it took them four hours at Urban Outfitters.

"Ugh, did you see how hard X is trying to be boho?! She thinks she looks like Mary Kate... but I know she gets up at 5:00 to be ready for school at 7:00. What a faux-hemian!"

faux-hemian by a neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie February 11, 2006

Faux-hemian 

Faux (fake) bohemian. A variation on yuppie, this type of person likes to act like an artsy, poor bohemian on the outskirts of society when they are in fact a middle-class ex-californian obsessed with fitting in. Seen most often in Portland, OR and other similar yuppie-ville towns.

Colin: That guy with the local coffee, expensive vintage clothing and typewriter is so popular in Hawthorne! I wonder why he never smiles?

Carolyn: Last year he was a producer in L.A. He is such a faux-hemian. If he smiled, it would blow his cover as a Stumptown coffee employee.

Faux-hemian by EastPortlandGal October 28, 2008

fauxhemian 

A trend in which folks pretend to live out the lives of poor individualists, while maintaining their financial security, and often using it to carry out this fantasy.

Speaker 1: Did you see Celebrity X wearing that bohemian shirt?!
Speaker 2: She probably paid $200 for it, that's sooo fauxhemian

fauxhemian by autovatic October 1, 2005

fauxhemian 

A conformist passing herself off as a nonconformist by going to great lengths to conform to an allegedly nonconforming alternative conformity rather than conforming to the mainstream conformity that she thinks is stiflingly conformist.

Marked by a notable lack of originality and creativity, an absence of genuine artistic talent, and carefully maintained escape routes so that she can give up the game when it stops being convenient.

It costs her a lot of money to look so down-and-out." "Yeah, fauxhemianism is an expensive lifestyle.

fauxhemian by DancingKali April 10, 2011

fauxhemian 

Conforming to a safe, middle class lifestyle but with the superficial pretense of an alternative or Bohemian lifestyle.

People who live in Stoke Newington or read The Guardian may like to believe they maintain the values of their radical student days but the shallowness of their fauxhemian conceit would quickly be revealed if they were expected to sacrifice some aspect of their comfortable lives.

fauxhemian by Johnny S. April 1, 2003

fauxhemian 

Someone who tries to project the image of a bohemian, but is a poser.

Dude, lets go to Starbucks and check out the fauxhemians.

fauxhemian by A R Wilson July 12, 2008