Santa Claus

New York, NY

Santa is the child of immigrants. As a pop culture icon he's initially attributed to a slave-owning English emigrant preacher and NY real estate wheeler-dealer. Revised for advertising he is one of our most successful exports, found wherever Hallmark holidays are celebrated. He is the secular saint of American compassionate Capitalism, the Catholic patron of pawnbrokers. He represents both gluttony and generosity with his Buddha belly jollity. He lives at the mall.

Stefan