You probably have seen the viral Balenciaga trash bag large pouch on Instagram to Youtube feeds over the past few weeks.
It’s mostly popular due to the popular expensive brand “Balenciaga” along with the upscale item worn by Chinese Actress Zhang Jingyi, showing a viral video of her holding onto the yellow plastic bag last year in Beijing as she walked down the red carpet.
A lot of people online speculated it as a rumor to humor viewers, others view it as fashion on the $1,790 item.
Instagram creators created funny parody videos such as using a similar yellow plastic bag in their cabinet to show viewers how outstanding a price of a bag cost while having a plastic bag for a few cents at the local grocery store.
It’s apparently a rumor, according to Vogue though it questioned viewers and public audiences of the possibility of Balenciaga making a plastic bag an upscale future item for the public.
Not as surprising, Balenciaga did sell a plastic bag towards the public in 2022 fall season, head designer Demna Gvasalia created leather bags to make it look like white and black trash bags to basic chip designs and sold them for about $1,790.
A pattern of consumerism is in the mix, the only craze is buying items to show off to the next person.
The bar for purchasing items has become low and so has expectations, if the bar is really low for consumers expectations, the next thing that’s on the market would simply be a wooden spoon in cabinets and become up charged up around 2k.
“Hmm this is rude,” wrote one commenter, while another called out the brand for being full of garbage: “Balenciaga is a meme designer.” NYT.
This shouldn’t be the next step for fashion accessories, especially when famous artists decide to wear them for public imagery.
“They really trying to make a joke out of the consumers at this point,” chimed in another. NYT
According to The Guardian, the biggest seller Balenciaga has sold has been a singular bath towel, presented as a skirt. The “skirt” itself pricing is about $695, think about taxes to round it up.
That money can be used for an expensive bag with good quality leather with accessories to add onto the bag.
Fashion overall has gotten worse with selling items for large amounts of price with little to no quality.
Same with television fashion shows, The Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture Spring Summer of 2023 fashion show perfectly showcases fashion, models walking with dresses upside down covering their face to sideways dresses, not fully covering the model, it’s humorous.
It ponders the curiosity of future fashion to those who would pay a large amount of money for something that’s worth the price, rather than a yellow trash bag for such a large amount of money.
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