Like all Flip-Flops, they are swimming pool clothing, good for walking a piece of burning sand. And yet the view of the toe bar-nietje, priced at $ 690, is most suitable in its own class, let’s introduce ourselves for a walk along the starboard side of a yacht.
The row, the luxury label of Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, is known for simple designs at luxury prices. Often praised for their personal taste, the Olsens are very influential in style. Photos of those who wear Flip-Flops often circulate on social media accounts dedicated to their outfits.
Although there is no characteristic design characteristics outside a small logo on their footbed, the $ 690 Flip-Flops have put on a waiting list in most sizes on the e-commerce website of the row. Reporters and editors from the Styles section sat down to debate the polarizing shoes.
Stella Bugbee I recently met this in the shoe department in the Nordstrom on 57th Street. I took one out of curiosity, just to turn it around and see the price tag of $ 690. I grabbed breath.
Jacob Gallagher Here I have to get clean immediately that I am distorted by covering years of fashion, because that price, although high, not Real Shock me.
Misty White Sidell Believe it or not, it is definitely an access point for the shoes of the row.
Jg In an era in which Miu Miu $ 1,170 sells new balances, why did this price consider you a special Egregious?
SB Well, first of all there is no way to pretend to be worth the money. With loafers or boots you can at least say that they are meant to come along.
MADAM For me they illustrate the wealth gorge in a very tangible way.
Jg I think they represent a certain lifestyle that people want. I heard someone justify the purchase by saying: “I feel like I’m in St. Barts.”
SB Certainly. All High Fashion is expensive and represents an alternative reality, but these also get a practice that makes me upset at a deeper level. Brands “reinvent” something when there is a really good version of it – such as the original Keds, for example, which has also made the line – because they know that customers want a “luxury” version of that item. In my opinion, buy something just Because it is expensive, you often indicate that you have no taste or conviction.
Jg I agree. I think we are in fashion at a grim moment where no one really has a ‘new’ idea for a number of reasons – shareholders fears, brands are too big and nobody really gives who designs, to name just a few. We are supposedly served “raised” versions of basic principles that we may already have. Fans of the row consider the Olsens itself as the embodiment of Chic, and I don’t know the twins at all, but I can’t understand them to spend $ 690 on Flip-Flops. I bet they wear Havaianas earlier.
SB Havaianas are $ 30!
MADAM The row of flip-flops embody a bigger problem. We have seen the sale with large groups such as LVMH and Kering are stagnating or falling while customers reduce against seemingly normal objects that are branded as luxury only because of a chic name and high price. Even some of the richest shoppers withdraw from these brands and have the feeling that their money is better spent elsewhere.
Jg The row currently has a blue chore jacket for sale, priced at $ 1,650. A similar from France costs $ 100. The row has adjusted the fit and dust, the buttons made firmer. I could claim it improved the old version.
SB I am not saying that all things from the row are fake, but these slippers feel like a piece.
Jg The Flip-Flops power Be the limit of this exercise when making the prosaic premium, but when we glorify celebrities for how much they earn and what they spend on clothing, you could not say that we are over that we have the time of assessing the absurd purchases of people?
SB Maybe, but when I came across the Flip-Flops of $ 690, I felt turned off.
Jg I understand that feeling, but I also think that we might overlook how much wealth is in this country. These Flip-Flops exist because there is a market for $ 690 Flip-Flops.
SB I’m not debating that! But “the market will support it” is an argument for nihilists and a critical dead end. You can (you must!) The earnings of something outside the viability of the market.
Jg I am not a nilist.
MADAM But you are team Flip-Flop?
Jg I understand the Flip-Flops. And I think the sugar height blows from something for how much it burns quickly in an environment where everything in luxury fashion costs so much. It splits hair.
Stella Bugbee” Jacob GallagherAnd Misty White Sidell has contributed to this story.
