giaccone nero per 5 mila dollari - gz ¶
By: GZ on Martedì 13 Settembre 2005 17:34
Prada vende ora a Manhattan un giaccone nero per 5 mila dollari (un auto coreana economica ne costa 8 mila)
Ci sono titoli come True Religion (di cui sono short ogni volta che rimbalza qui) che vendono semplici jeans tagliati e sporcati che sembrano di uno che è finito sotto un auto per 200-300 dollari e li comprano anche delle ragazze che lavorano
Avendo passato buona parte dell'estate a NY gli eccessi di consumo opulento si notano più che in ogni altro anno che io ricordi e danno un poco fastidio, così come impressione superficiale, anche a chi non trova niente di male di solito nel consumismo come me
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Christopher Smith for The New York Times
There are probably more scientific ways to measure the bulge at the upper end of the economy, but the season's hot Prada coat is one way to tell how much disposable income is floating around. The coat is black wool and has jet beading at the lapel and collar. It is fitted, severe, and as chic as widow's weeds. The person who puts one on immediately assumes the sleek and impertinent air of an urban crow. That the price of the coat is around $5,500 has apparently done little to deter sales. Since the first fall shipments, even the Prada stores have had trouble keeping the coats in stock.
Not worried: "I don't really look at price tags," said Sarah Siegel-Magness, at the park with her daughter, Camryn, 6.
Price resistance is not typically the first thing on people's minds during Fashion Week. But even industry die-hards have been forced into a new, and slightly uneasy, relationship with what people outside the business might think of as reality.
"I'm a real person and I'm, like, totally sticker-shocked," said Lauren Ezersky, the Style channel commentator, before the Duckie Brown men's wear show on Friday. An inveterate clotheshorse, she has recently had to cut back on her wardrobe outlay.
"Prices have gotten insane," Ms. Ezersky said, the reasons having to do partly with the continued weakness of the dollar against the euro and partly, one assumes, with the proliferation of an expanded cast of what marketers term the super-affluent. "You used to be able to buy a pair of Manolos for $500, and now every pair of shoes is 800 bucks," she said indignantly.
For most Americans, the idea of buying a $500 pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes is so far outside the realm of the possible that it is not so much an aspiration as a delusion.
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