/fa/ - Fashion

It's pretty silly how people always target the designers who produce this stuff and never question the customers. There is a reason you see it year after year and it's because it sells. If it didn't they wouldn't make it. Why does anything expensive and frivolous exist? Because there are eccentric people out there who make ten times what you do, that's why.

Here's a simple exercise next time you question the price of something:

Take a decimal off the end. That's what it's like for rich people. Now look at the price, is it that bad? Probably not but in some cases something might be so ridiculous that it's still hard to justify. Alright then, take two decimals off the end and look at the price. That's what it's like for ultra rich people. The people who are buying those Balaclavas are so loaded that it's like $8 for them. Would you buy one at that price? Sure you would. I've watched Chinese billionaires walk into boutiques and buy shit like that to wear to dinner and then leave it in the hotel when they check out.

You have no idea how much money there is out there.

Now lets go back to the designers. Put yourself in their shoes, if you knew that people like that were out there, why wouldn't you sell to them?

This has nothing to do with art or taste or whatever, it's all dollars and cents. This customer isn't any more stupid or ridiculous than you are when you buy a goofy novelty t-shirt at a souvenir store that you only wear once or twice.

I dunno why these conversations get all convoluted with philosophical debates about value and art, all it seriously comes down to is that there are ultra rich people out there and you can make a business out of selling to them so why not?