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djork said:
Sounds like some kind of cult ritual
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Sounds like some kind of cult ritual
stilettogirl84 said:
sad but very true... if we really wanted to do something about this, we would be helping poor people out there instead of discussing if "someones croc birkin is fab or hideous!"
i am of course not saying we cant do both... but it doesnt seem fair to complain about issues like inequalities of wealth when FSpoters like us keep discussing and defending labels and companies that sadly take advantage of people in third world countries, kill animals and do other nauthgy things of all sorts.
we know about it and we either love it or leave it.
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stilettogirl84 said:
i understand "the inequalities of wealth in the world" as you say... but excuse me
if I felt surprise but sth so ridiculous like destroying clothes because they were not sold and just to maintain an image of wealthiness and exclusivity that nowadays (with so much information that we have and constantly updating) nobody cant believe... this kind of ironical, kind of paradoxical behaviour makes me really angry!it´s not just about giving to charity the 2900$ left from the dress... if you have the money good for u, you can afford the prada dress...
i do believe that some people in the fashion bussines have some concience... there are more and more new brands that are taking some responsabilities just not to do those naughty things (that borjacapello said).
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Jewelers melt down jewelry rather than put it on sale, though that's not quite as destructive as the stones and metals can be reused.
If I owned a design house and could afford it, I would defiantely destroy past stock. Especially houses like Chanel, Dior, Hermes, Vuitton. Haha, I just thought, with these sh*tty collections Vuitton is putting out, there are gonna be some serious bonfires this fall.
If I owned a design house and could afford it, I would defiantely destroy past stock. Especially houses like Chanel, Dior, Hermes, Vuitton. Haha, I just thought, with these sh*tty collections Vuitton is putting out, there are gonna be some serious bonfires this fall.
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JunyaSchick said:i understand "the inequalities of wealth in the world" as you say... but excuse me
it´s not just about giving to charity the 2900$ left from the dress... if you have the money good for u, you can afford the prada dress...
Well if they don't destry the items, what would they do with them? Put them on sale or donate them to the goodwill?
If I paid three grand for a dress, I'd be pissed that someone else can get the same thing for 200 on clearance. or for twenty at the goodwill. If I could get it cheaper later, why would I buy it now for the price of a used car?
^^ got to agree with stilettogirl
Junya, imho sure some people in the fashion industry have a concience, but definetly not many of the houses that do burn the unsold clothes would be in that group. If they ever did care... it always sounded comercial
Junya, imho sure some people in the fashion industry have a concience, but definetly not many of the houses that do burn the unsold clothes would be in that group. If they ever did care... it always sounded comercial
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^yeah, i would sell it in sales... sounds much better... because sales are at the end of the season... and there´s a lot of people that dont wear the piece of clothing once the season ended... so the problem about being pissed off it then is sold for 200$ or 20$ its not a problem... u can think is out of fashion... in fashion everything has a short life.
I don't believe they really burn anything. i'm convinced it's just an indirect marketing ruse to make people believe in the exclusivity of what are really (well made??) mass produced products.
u could possibly compare this with... the supposedly incredibly long wait list for an hermes birkin... (did anybody really wait 3 years, 5 years?)
and going on sale doesn't mean that your 3000$ dress is now being sold for 200$... more like 2800$... 2000$... in that sense the extra money that you paid is for the 'luxury' of having the item to wear IN SEASON, not in the next season...
this is slightly off topic, but, i have to say!... once i was at a gucci sale at their store in surfer's paradise in australia (in 2001?), and there was a ring which was reduced from $440 to $60.
$60. - thats in Australian Dollars too...
it was an ugly piece of metal and not even worth that!
somehow it really cheapened my image of the brand...(esp. that they would create something so ugly and sell it for such an exorbitant original price)...
u could possibly compare this with... the supposedly incredibly long wait list for an hermes birkin... (did anybody really wait 3 years, 5 years?)
and going on sale doesn't mean that your 3000$ dress is now being sold for 200$... more like 2800$... 2000$... in that sense the extra money that you paid is for the 'luxury' of having the item to wear IN SEASON, not in the next season...
this is slightly off topic, but, i have to say!... once i was at a gucci sale at their store in surfer's paradise in australia (in 2001?), and there was a ring which was reduced from $440 to $60.
$60. - thats in Australian Dollars too...
it was an ugly piece of metal and not even worth that!
somehow it really cheapened my image of the brand...(esp. that they would create something so ugly and sell it for such an exorbitant original price)...
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Monsieur said:
That's why I think old stock should be destroyed rather than sold at reduced prices
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I know lv never has sales, maybe they do this.. 
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LV do burn their last season clothes but Chanel send all the last season ones to the Woodbury Commons Outlet in New York. Chanel in a factory outlet? Sounds interesting. 
Rubbish. What company would burn old stock! The labels are ripped out and sold in the more exclusive outlets in Paris/NY (century 21 anyone?)
Couture fabrics are not burnt as they serve for mock ups in similar fabrications for the following seasons: Valentino has been known to overdye hundreds of metres of off red fabric to black in order to salvage it. Even those fabrics are then disposed of to high end fabric shops.
Pure hype!
Couture fabrics are not burnt as they serve for mock ups in similar fabrications for the following seasons: Valentino has been known to overdye hundreds of metres of off red fabric to black in order to salvage it. Even those fabrics are then disposed of to high end fabric shops.
Pure hype!
I don't know how relevant this is but destroying unsold merchandise happens in many industries, not just luxury fashion. I have a friend who worked at Trader Joe's and he said that the company could not give unsold merchandise to employees or donate it and had to destroy it for legal/accounting purposes.
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Yes, even the government destroys or dumps into the ocean, their leftover produce. It becomes a tax writeoff. When logically, it would make more sense to feed the millions of hungry people around the world. It's quite sad and unbelievable. But those industries have their reasons.
I think there was an editorial on the Prada outlet in Vogue a few years ago. Here is a little info on the outlet itself.
There's lot's of little secrets of the retail world that I've learned in the past few months, and I mean, it's not that great of course. But I find it hard to speculate that companies would just burn clothes as opposed to using it for other projects. Chanel could easily turn old clothes into hundreds of camelia's no? It reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons where Marge buys a Chanel dress at a huge discount, and starts wearing it every day until the country club snobs start sneering at her for wearing only one thing. So they drive her to keep reworking the suit into something new. Until it drives her to just buy a brand new dress at full price.
I think there was an editorial on the Prada outlet in Vogue a few years ago. Here is a little info on the outlet itself.
There's lot's of little secrets of the retail world that I've learned in the past few months, and I mean, it's not that great of course. But I find it hard to speculate that companies would just burn clothes as opposed to using it for other projects. Chanel could easily turn old clothes into hundreds of camelia's no? It reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons where Marge buys a Chanel dress at a huge discount, and starts wearing it every day until the country club snobs start sneering at her for wearing only one thing. So they drive her to keep reworking the suit into something new. Until it drives her to just buy a brand new dress at full price.
I would be LUCKY to have a Chanel outlet near where I live, we have the typical junk.
Anyways, I'm not a fan of it. When some things can be reused and reworked, I say go for it. The outlets are our friends, well at least those of us who don't have the money to buy the Chanel piece at full price. If I were to go to a fancy outlet and buy something from the previous season and bring it back to where I live, I don't think a lot of people would care since I live in the land where Birkenstocks are fashionable. That's not the case everywhere thankfully, and I can understand why burning some things would be better, but reuse what you can is my philosophy.
Anyways, I'm not a fan of it. When some things can be reused and reworked, I say go for it. The outlets are our friends, well at least those of us who don't have the money to buy the Chanel piece at full price. If I were to go to a fancy outlet and buy something from the previous season and bring it back to where I live, I don't think a lot of people would care since I live in the land where Birkenstocks are fashionable. That's not the case everywhere thankfully, and I can understand why burning some things would be better, but reuse what you can is my philosophy.
