A fool and their money are soon parted.
We’re not going to make it, are we? Humans, I mean.
Seems like a lot for a knock off LV purse.
Now a minuscule Hermes Birkin bag; that would be worth quite a lot.
Well, at least it’s composed of actual matter, unlike knock-off Hermes Birkin NFTs.
Honestly, I think the LV logo plastered all over Louis Vuitton handbags and luggage is really tacky. I don’t want the things I purchase to be such blatant advertisements for the brands.
I’ve seen artwork that entailed a lot less time and resources sell for a lot more than that. As a species we are just bartering one made up thing of value (money) for another. That handbag, at least, has a lot smaller carbon footprint than a $63K car.
Look at the bright side. Once you’ve collected 5 of those handbags you can trade them for a ride on a submarine down to see the wreck of the Titanic Titan.
A movie quote that will never be outdated.
It seems to me that this handbag is entirely in keeping with the schtick of the group. They release things like this as a form of social commentary. From the New York Times,
Kevin Wiesner, the chief creative officer of MSCHF, positioned the bag as a commentary on the impracticality of ever-shrinking luxury handbags. “I think ‘bag’ is a funny object because it derives from something rigorously functional,” he said in an interview. “But it has basically become jewelry.”
He said that MSCHF aimed to extend that trend to its logical conclusion by stripping away all of the bag’s utility, leaving nothing but a brand signifier. “It is the final word in bag miniaturization,” MSCHF said in a statement.
Here is a gift link to a New York Times article about the group.
Robert A. Heinlein called these the “Crazy Years”; and I don’t think even he knew how crazy they would be (and before anyone starts, I know damn well there are more than enough crazy things in history to fill many volumes, but I’m rollin’ here…).
And the name MSCHF, by adding the proper vowels, describes the business pretty accurately IMHO.
Press on.
Well, except in the scenario where it’s sufficiently far in the future that it can be said we have “made it.”