The news of the death of the tie is premature

In the movie Back to the Future,  was famously depicted as his 2015 self wearing not one, but two ties.

A bad prediction.

But so was a 2008 Wall Street Journal article that declared the death of the tie.

Though tie sales have slowed from their high, ties are still a statement of power and fashion.

Television still depicts power people around a conference table wearing suits and ties. But in Showtime’s Billions, bad boy billionaire hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod (played by Damian Lewis) never wears a suit or a tie, or even anything fancier than a t-shirt. On the other hand, the shaved-head, non-binary character Taylor Amber Mason (played by Asia Kate Dillon), who leads the hedge fund, always wears a tie.