http://styleskilling.com/2007/01/16/designer-to-dealer-the-transition-from-boutique-to-house-of-ill-repute/ You cannot deconstruct unless you know how to construct. - Alexander McQueen Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:25:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://styleskilling.com/2007/01/16/designer-to-dealer-the-transition-from-boutique-to-house-of-ill-repute/#comment-8745 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:20:40 +0000 http://styleskilling.com/2007/01/16/designer-to-dealer-the-transition-from-boutique-to-house-of-ill-repute/#comment-8745 In London at least, I also notice an obscene sort of price escalation for 'luxury' accessories, particularly bags, which have suddenly more than doubled in price, all at the same time - and because such grotesque prices are now the norm, women are led into going along with this. Superior craftsmanship is one thing, but there's something else going on here - a well made, expensive bag or pair of shoes would have been £300 two years ago. Now they are all £800 . I presume at least partly as a result of designers realising that an addiction to It bags etc means that women will pay apparently anything, and squeezing them accordingly. In London at least, I also notice an obscene sort of price escalation for ‘luxury’ accessories, particularly bags, which have suddenly more than doubled in price, all at the same time - and because such grotesque prices are now the norm, women are led into going along with this. Superior craftsmanship is one thing, but there’s something else going on here - a well made, expensive bag or pair of shoes would have been £300 two years ago. Now they are all £800 . I presume at least partly as a result of designers realising that an addiction to It bags etc means that women will pay apparently anything, and squeezing them accordingly.

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