Most Overpriced Designer?

[jeanclaude]

there's a guy on tiktok who takes apart leather bags to determine their quality (his name is tannerleatherstein). he bought a prada cleo from a resale site and it was so cheaply made he thought it was a fake. but it was later verified by several people as authentic. the resale site said a lot of the problems were issues a lot of prada bags have. i always check his account before i start looking at any new bags.

Thank you! I read about him time ago; but it´s good you mentioned it!

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[Olaffo]

^ I adore this guy: with a simple incision he is bursting the balloon inflated by delusional and pseudo intellectual designers, suits and army of PR people.

 

[Lola701]

^ I adore this guy: with a simple incision he is bursting the balloon inflated by delusional and pseudo intellectual designers, suits and army of PR people.

It also serve the ego of people who can’t afford it anyway…

I’m always perplexed by this.
At first, I was kind of getting his point but tbh, a person who buys a designer bag buys the design, the status symbol and at best the quality.
No average customer is really able to judge on the quality of a leather unless they used the products.

When it comes to Prada, the average customer is happy seeing that the bag stand the test of time. They don’t care about the chemicals and techniques.

I got to think about this guy’s videos because I realized that a lot of women/men who buys bags from Hermes, which in the mainstream is recognized as the Rolls of bags, barely uses them, baby them to death and so cannot perfectly judge on the quality because the bag was bought with the project to sell it at the highest price in pristine conditions years later…

 

[Thefrenchy]

It also serve the ego of people who can’t afford it anyway…

I’m always perplexed by this.
At first, I was kind of getting his point but tbh, a person who buys a designer bag buys the design, the status symbol and at best the quality.
No average customer is really able to judge on the quality of a leather unless they used the products.

Agree with you, although it makes me giggle to see this vs the marketing crap so many luxury brands feed the public regarding "craftsmanship" and "outstanding quality"

 

[rivegaucheface]

At first, I was kind of getting his point but tbh, a person who buys a designer bag buys the design, the status symbol and at best the quality.

He does talk about that in his videos. When dissecting leather bags he always talks about the materials and design but he also mentions that purchasing "luxury" means purchasing the name and the persona of the brand. He does it in a way that's very non-judgmental and acknowledging that the luxury industry rests on the perception of the customer.

No average customer is really able to judge on the quality of a leather unless they used the products.

When it comes to Prada, the average customer is happy seeing that the bag stand the test of time. They don’t care about the chemicals and techniques.

That's exactly why he makes his videos. People don't want to spend hundreds or thousands on a bag only to have the leather age poorly or the hardware turn brass in a few months or years.

The bag he bought didn't stand the test of time. Cleos aren't even that old and the leather had weird bending marks where it shouldn't have and the hardware was cheap. I think you're right that a lot of customers don't care about the craft-making techniques but they do increasingly care about the craftsmanship.

 

[youthinasia]

The dissecting of a Bambino was quite good too. Basically, Jacquemus quality is trash.

 

[yslforever]

The dissecting of a Bambino was quite good too. Basically, Jacquemus quality is trash.

There is a very big difference imho; Jacquemus has never claimed (to the consumers) to be a "luxury" brand with an exceptional craftmanship and "legacy" on leather, like Hermès, LV, BV, Loewe, or Prada claim to be.
Prada is supposed to be "dal 1913" and to offer some expertise on leather goods, except they are just laminated hides. Not enough to sue on class action but...

 

[Lola701]

Agree with you, although it makes me giggle to see this vs the marketing crap so many luxury brands feed the public regarding "craftsmanship" and "outstanding quality"

For that I agree.
It’s very funny but at the same time, it’s not really a « lie ».
Sometimes I watch those videos because there are nice advertisement and then I think about the number of people who are going to request the product from the video instead of the canvas printed tote.

The problem is that, the consumer is more informed than ever. We are not in the early 00’s anymore. They are aware of sweatshops. They decides to turn a blind eye and then screams « quality ».

I saw the Walmart Birkin controversy. People buying the bag from Walmart, saying that quality is good, the bag is in leather. Those are same people who buys from Shein and Fashionova.
That tells me that their standard of quality is not really at the right place.

He does talk about that in his videos. When dissecting leather bags he always talks about the materials and design but he also mentions that purchasing "luxury" means purchasing the name and the persona of the brand. He does it in a way that's very non-judgmental and acknowledging that the luxury industry rests on the perception of the customer.


That's exactly why he makes his videos. People don't want to spend hundreds or thousands on a bag only to have the leather age poorly or the hardware turn brass in a few months or years.

The bag he bought didn't stand the test of time. Cleos aren't even that old and the leather had weird bending marks where it shouldn't have and the hardware was cheap. I think you're right that a lot of customers don't care about the craft-making techniques but they do increasingly care about the craftsmanship.

The problem for me is that at the end, consumers are not more responsible.

People should be able to ask the right questions and stop being hypocritical.

But I don’t think customers care about craftsmanship at all. And I’m talking about the mass.

There is a very big difference imho; Jacquemus has never claimed (to the consumers) to be a "luxury" brand with an exceptional craftmanship and "legacy" on leather, like Hermès, LV, BV, Loewe, or Prada claim to be.
Prada is supposed to be "dal 1913" and to offer some expertise on leather goods, except they are just laminated hides. Not enough to sue on class action but...

AMEN!
It seems like for people, as soon as something is above 400€, it’s luxury.
I have heard people saying to me that Polene is luxury….