A portmanteau that linguists might trace to a collision of "casual" and "pizzazz" with a heavy dusting of "antique," Cazzique is the aesthetic answer to burnout. It is the art of looking effortlessly expensive while actively embracing the cluttered, the historical, and the slightly absurd.

Historically, a cazzique was a tribal chieftain or leader among the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America, including the Taíno and Kalinago.