Matthieu Blazy - Designer, Creative Director of Chanel

[JohannesL]

I always feel that I am too poor to join TFS's gender war. Such discussion makes me feel that high fashion is still living in its privileged bubble as not every sex workers would ever dream about having a luxury handbag and most of them are having a hard life in those countries I have ever visited.

 

[Creative]

I always feel that I am too poor to join TFS's gender war. Such discussion makes me feel that high fashion is still living in its privileged bubble as not every sex workers would ever dream about having a luxury handbag and most of them are having a hard life in those countries I have ever visited.

Of course it is living in its privileged bubble, how would it not be? It is selling bags whose price is way higher than the monthly income of 95% of the population. High fashion is for people that have or can have access to certain type of means.

Being a worker at company you can earn 30K or 2M. Why would it be different for prostitut*s? 👀

 

[proseccotabis]

Being a worker at company you can earn 30K or 2M. Why would it be different for prostitut*s?

You think really well about brands... the only humans that earn 30k or 2m in a company are CEOs or the likes of Arnaults.. so i guess the employees earn less than se* industry workers

 

[yslforever]

I always feel that I am too poor to join TFS's gender war. Such discussion makes me feel that high fashion is still living in its privileged bubble as not every sex workers would ever dream about having a luxury handbag and most of them are having a hard life in those countries I have ever visited.

Tbh, this is not about fashion or high-fashion anymore, it's about brands and some of their products, (often perceived as luxury and expensive brands but that's debatable), used as social status-symbols (a tale as long as humanity), now some of those brands have diverged from fashion to become symbols like Creative said:
- Loro Piana = MENA's Uniqlo
- Dior monogram menswear = ghetto
- Chanel mini bags = insta-girls in bodycon dresses (the oversize trends never caught with them).

It's far from fashion, but still derivative.

It's trying to show-off some form of wealth or belonging to a community, some would consider this tackiness.
Chanel has always been on the verge between fashion and status symbol, Karl knew it and played it beautifully, Virginie much less, and the new Unilever management is very aware of the status symbols thing.

I hope MB is aware too, but he has never looked playfull to me. There is always something very forced, very designed.