Most Overpriced Designer?

[proseccotabis]

Balenciaga by Demna Gvasalia
Chanel
Jil Sander by Luke and Lucy Meier
The Attico
The Row
Thom Browne

All are way overpriced.

The Row is great quality at least, which is something i cant say about Jil Sander for example...The Attico is a phenomenon - how can someone spend this much money on this trash.
Zegna and , radically, Versace. when you touch the stuff it speaks for itself ( in my experience anyways)

 

[FashionPower]

The Row is great quality at least, which is something i cant say about Jil Sander for example...The Attico is a phenomenon - how can someone spend this much money on this trash.
Zegna and , radically, Versace. when you touch the stuff it speaks for itself ( in my experience anyways)

The Attico is basically a more urban / hypebeast upgraded version of Christopher Decarnin Balmain. After Olivier Rousteing started shifting Balmain design proposition into something more artsy / intellectual a la Loewe, there was basically no high fashion brand that actually delivers overly embellished / over the top clothing without the demodè / cheap feeling a la Zuhair Murad or Elie Saab. The girls were very clever in brand positioning

 

[FashionPower]

Would you spend 370 Euro on a Fendi Selleria leather zip wallet with uneven and misaligned hand stitching?
I am actually shocked the price is so low as the hand stitching is so overly advertised and stressed. It would have been 2k had it being sold by Prada (with plastic Saffiano of course)...
Funnily enough, the average customer after reading "hand stitching" will probably think of an italian skilled artisan making the stitching in a Tesla industrialized kind of level factory while in reality this wallet is gonna get handled by some underpaid chinese in Prato.

 

[plentyofhorns]

Is anyone actually buying Alessandro’s Valentino? The prices are ludicrous. $10k for a dress that you could get from retrofete, selkie, Zimmerman, for love and lemons, revolve etc for <$1000. Even DG versions are half price or less

 

[yslforever]

Is anyone actually buying Alessandro’s Valentino? The prices are ludicrous. $10k for a dress that you could get from retrofete, selkie, Zimmerman, for love and lemons, revolve etc for <$1000. Even DG versions are half price or less

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CAD ? AUD ? Because it's 6,900 € on a European page, which is still ludicrous.
Especially as they put the sale at 40% discount at the end of the very same page (but the discounted ones are PPP black collection).

 

[Lola701]

Is anyone actually buying Alessandro’s Valentino? The prices are ludicrous. $10k for a dress that you could get from retrofete, selkie, Zimmerman, for love and lemons, revolve etc for <$1000. Even DG versions are half price or less

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For some reasons, those prices don’t shock me. This is Valentino’s pricing.
It has always been expensive a la Dior.

The shock is maybe because of Alessandro’s designs. They were cheaper at Gucci so there’s no sense of added value when transposed to Valentino.

 

[blueorchid]

CAD ? AUD ? Because it's 6,900 € on a European page, which is still ludicrous.

Must be American, on the Canadian page it's a hair under $12,000. That's about right for the exchange rate.

 

[IsabelMarantBoy]

And to think the industry was upset (not once but twice) at Olivier Theyskens for his "Demi-Couture" pricing at Rochas and Nina Ricci

At least his stuff looked thoughtfully designed and well cut, that looks like it came from LoveShackFancy or Zimmerman.

 

[youthinasia]

Did anyone lose a pair of briefs in the locker room because Willy is selling them for $563

 

[Olaffo]

“Dirty underwear that is actually clean” is the very final stage of capitalism.

 

[yslforever]

Did anyone lose a pair of briefs in the locker room because Willy is selling them for $563
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No kink-shaming but what did you google to stumble on this gold nugget ?

 

[Kennnnn]

Did anyone lose a pair of briefs in the locker room because Willy is selling them for $563
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Ridiculous.

 

[LadyJunon]

Did anyone lose a pair of briefs in the locker room because Willy is selling them for $563
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The best/worst part of it is the product description:

hand-painted and distressed by artisans in California

this 'dirty' underwear is actually very clean

 

[Salvatore]

If I was an (alleged) artisan and worked all my life at a craft only to end up working on « dirty underwear » that is « actually very clean », I'd question every choice in my life leading up to this moment.

How did we get here ?!?

 

[yslforever]

If I was an (alleged) artisan and worked all my life at a craft only to end up working on « dirty underwear » that is « actually very clean », I'd question every choice in my life leading up to this moment.

How did we get here ?!?

Nope they just ship them to Peru farmers to wear for a month, then are shipped back and washed at 90° (at least I hope).

 

[reese06]

And here I am “allegedly” selling my worn to the gym underwear online for just $125.

Thanks for the market research @youthinasia

 

[GoldenTribe]

Nope they just ship them to Peru farmers to wear for a month, then are shipped back and washed at 90° (at least I hope).

I vaguely recall long-gone denim brand Earnest Sewn launching or at least announcing/trial-ballooning a line of actually pre-worn-just-for-you jeans called "Butler Worn" (?) that failed immediately, but Google didn't turn anything up in five seconds and I'm too lazy to look further because that was a time before everything was documented on the internet, and I have a hard enough time finding information about clothes just a few seasons old.

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

I mean...the briefs look more sellable in this picture


willychavarria.com

 

[Salvatore]

I mean...the briefs look more sellable in this picture

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willychavarria.com

The other item in this photo ... Now that's some artisanal work I can support and would like to have. 😏

Let me stop.

 

[youthinasia]

I vaguely recall long-gone denim brand Earnest Sewn launching or at least announcing/trial-ballooning a line of actually pre-worn-just-for-you jeans called "Butler Worn" (?) that failed immediately, but Google didn't turn anything up in five seconds and I'm too lazy to look further because that was a time before everything was documented on the internet, and I have a hard enough time finding information about clothes just a few seasons old.

Wasn’t that APC?

Butler program: bring back your used jeans

www.apcstore.com