\pas-TEESH; pahs-\, noun: 1 A work of art that imitates the style of some previous work 2 A musical, literary, or artistic composition consisting of selections from various works 3 A hodgepodge; an incongruous combination of different styles and ingredients
A pastiche is something such as a piece of writing or music in which the style is copied from somewhere else, or which contains a mixture of different styles. Peter Baker's bathroom is a brilliant pastiche of expensive interior design
Combining/hybridizing styles, icons, formula Distinctive signature of postmodernism (according to Jameson) Similarly, media critic Todd Gitlin has noted postmodernism's tendency toward the recombinant