"Designer" Brands Feed off Poor People; TRUE LUXURY Serves the Individual.
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- Designer brands manipulate sensitive egos of those searching for an outside solution to "confidence, security, self-worth" amongst other internal qualities. I show you how to see through these tactics and save your dignity & money :)
BTW, true luxury and "designer" are quite different. Luxury serves the individual; "designer" uses the individual for profit. The difference is quality, craftsmanship and INTEGRITY.
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I got immune to designer brands after realizing that if a person has nice figure, the person looks best without wearing anything😅
STRAIGHT FACTS
❤🤭🎀 “literally just be skinny!” It’s tongue-in-cheek! ✨✨
Lol clever
Disagree actually. The body is less beautiful than the things we adorn it with.
@@sacragonfully disagree with that most Greek sculptures were naked up until later eras
I recently read a substack that read, “Jealousy comes from thinking someone is taking something that is or should be yours, while envy is wanting something that belongs to someone else. Aspiration requires at least a small dose of envy, because when we aspire to be like someone, we must want a bit of what they have for ourselves.” I absolutely agree with you and how central identity plays into how ppl think they can buy themselves into what they ‘aspire’ to be.
Was it the one on Beyoncé lol?
@@aielianna Yesss it was 😂
Aspiration just requires a little self-confidence ❤
Luxury to me is having a washing machine and dryer under the same roof. 😂❤
tbh, I’ve been slightly had by these images online. This came just in time
When I was working crazy hours and days I used to do "retail therapy" to treat myself for working so hard. It became a crazy circle. Haven't bought anything in over a year. Just food. Lol . Now I don't have that stress from working .. I stopped shopping. I was silly. Live and learn.
So proud & learning from you! 💖
I wish and HOPE that this could be me. I honestly need to stop buying unnecessary items
@@Ihavenoname247 good luck. I hope you can too. Think of what you spend could be saved for retirement. When you can't work anymore.
YESSSS. It's been so long since i last bought store clothes for this very reason. I'm personally into thrifting, and when i discovered you can have nice, natural fiber, quality clothes for an affordable price i never looked back. Like, i'm not buying that ridiculously expensive polyester blouse when i can get an actual silk blouse for at least half the price 😭🙏
Vintage queens unite 🦢
In my personal opinion, what only serves yourself will only be limited to yourself. This is why artisans are important. But beyond that, experiences. Experiences are priceless. Generosity is luxury. Giving is luxury, not taking.
There were so many good points! The fact that brands like Gucci, Chanel and Louis Vuitton keep increasing the already ridiculous prices of their handbags to stay exclusive speaks volumes.
Knowing someone who works in a more affordable designer store has given me quite the insight. They don't sell the big logo stuff, other stores around them do though. She has so many customers who can afford to splurge and some days she'll sell clothes and accessories for more than €8k euros. One customer alone can spend up to €4k euros in a visit. These are tourists, people with wellpaid jobs like lawyers, TV personalities and some occasional celebrity. A few are loyal customers. The thing the big spenders appreciate the most is having someone helping them finding clothes that fit them and putting together a wardrobe that will work for years to come. They don't just come to buy random stuff for the sake of looking flashy, they do because they appreciate the customer service, quality and clothes that won't go out of style in a minute. This only convinced me that the more common and advertised designer stuff is for poor people. The poor will save for months just to pay for a bag while the people with actual money go for something less obvious. 🤷♀️
Freedom is true luxury!
Never been a fan of brands and when I found out how predatory they are, that sealed the deal for me. The way people act about designer is more than enough for me to realize something is wrong there. Like Ralph Lauren and usps, just because RL is more expensive people think it’s the original when it’s actually not.
Absolutely true luxury doesn’t show labels like custom suits custom shoes custom shirts if anything they’ll embroider in a discreet corner your own initial or like inside the lining and store-bought luxury like cashmere sweaters wool sweaters scarves shawls don’t have printed logos anywhere and if there is a reference to the Designer it will be a discreet may be an imprint on the button . I remember buying some Pashima shawls in Paris France on the Faubourg Saint Honore A small discreet luxury shop and a lady walked in very softly spoken very elegant colourful and originally dressed absolutely no labels everything was very plain and it stood out to me as well that’s actually very impressive it was quiet luxury it spoke louder than any label could of course everything was quality because the labels weren’t distracting you all you noticed was the style the taste the chic and the quality of her choices also everything was “timeless design” so nothing was going to go out of fashion luxury women just add to their wardrobe accumulate so they never have to throw anything out because it’s always stays in style sweaters scarves basic pants classic skirts and they stay slim one of the motivations for staying slim/ the same size is so you can fit into the clothes you bought 10, 20 even 30 years ago! Yes 😃 speaking from experience here. Also taking care of your quality clothes & shoes. & mixing inexpensive timeless classics like jeans t.shirts. Keds canvas running shoes with your luxury items ie cashmere, wool , silk.
I just wanted to say that I love your energy you are so elegant but straightforward and honest
Thank you sweetness 🪷🌷🌾
Soooo excited to hear women talking about this 🎉🎉 we were traumatised by not getting our childhood community, love and attention needs met so we would try to buy that void back as adults and be perfect little consumers…
Even though I disagreed with one of your other videos, I agree with your message in this one! Thank you for this. It's a reminder a lot of people need. While expensive designer goods can make a person feel good temporarily, it often causes a reliance and an addiction that does more harm than good in the long run. True confidence and true happiness come from valuing yourself and working on things that will take you to that sense of fulfillment.
spot on 🎯 thank you for this video! lately it seems so hard to find people that think critically and don’t just follow others blindly
very well said. become immune to the silly hype. Cheers
You are beautiful though. And your mindset is the cherry on top ✨
Real recognize real ✨😘💖
After knowing about Dior, Armani and Loro Piana cases, I don’t think it is just about logo anymore but about integrity. To make products at relatively low cost materials by workers who live in horrible condition and then sell it at an outrageous price is the peak of unethical practices. It’s no longer just about I like the design I like the look of this or I love how classic these pieces are. Even if you do like a Dior bag design without any substantial logo on it, and even if you do buy it from a place of self-worth and not lack of self-validation, the integrity and the ethical aspect of the whole process should make you reconsider whether you should own a Dior (or any luxury brands that exploit labors but charge at a stupid price that profits will go straight to the CEO) bag.
To the best of my knowledge and ability I only purchase goods and services borne of Integrity 💖🪷✨
very true, intelligent, straight to the point.
How wise and eloquently expressed ♥️ thank you for speaking the truth, Love!
You know it’s good when you’re thinking “this should be common knowledge!” But it really isn’t. 🔥
I have never gone after designer brands as I don’t like screaming labels, I’ve never been particularly fashionable either. I seek out quality in my clothes instead and they must be classic. This seems to be something that the very wealthy inherently know. I am not rich. My Mum was a tailor and my Dad sold shoes, but I appreciated a good cut and fit with clothing and learned how much work went into making a handmade leather shoe. The trouble is, now it’s very hard to find affordable quality clothing. 100% wool coats are hard to find. Most these days have a low wool count which won’t keep you warm in the cold weather. Shoes aren’t the same anymore. They’ve lost their softness and padding and rub my feet raw. I hate the term “vegan leather” - it’s just plastic! A massive con that people fall for.
One thing I have learned is that if you find a new brand just starting out with a smaller customer base, their clothes will be better quality than when they become more well known and have to cater for the masses. That’s when mass production loses the quality. I’ve never seen so much polyester on the high street. To quote Mark Anthony from Made In Chelsea, “Darling, there’s so much polyester in here that one match and the whole place will be up in flames”. Never a truer word spoken but I wish I could take a match to it all. Clothes and shoes on the high street are horrible now.
Having discernment for quality is the biggest flex in my eyes 💖✨🌷
So many points made, I so appreciate you and the algorithm for sharing your wisdom!
It probably all goes even deeper when considering that the class and self-esteem issues that power the designer brand 'engine,' if you will, are also just problems largely manufactured or at minimum negatively reinforced by society and culture and at the foundation, by the constrictions of human nature.
I sometimes spiral a bit when I realize that we humans live in a world and under conditions generated collectively by our similarly functioning brains but which we assume are objective and external and universal. Like how beauty is felt as something embodied or inherent in a thing or person or space or idea but in my opinion beauty is likely an emotion or feeling generated in the brain/consciousness of the experiencer. It's just a response to certain kinds of stimuli like colors, forms, patterns, symmetry, etc.-none of which we can really "choose" to find beautiful, we just do or don't based on our nature + past experiences. In that sense, people or things that are deemed universally beautiful could instead be said to "universally appeal to the system and criteria in most people's brains that judges and determines beauty." I think we all know this intuitively but most of us can't help but be overpowered by our brain's assessment of a thing's beauty and the downstream effects that has on our treatment and assessment of it (the halo effect, etc.). if you find someone attractive you can't just turn it off or no longer have that experience when you see them unless something completely changes about your opinion or knowledge of them or yourself, which is also usually not decided consciously. If someone commits a heinous crime and you not longer find them attractive, that also usually isn't a conscious choice and is another example of the brain's control over experience.
Even luxury products in some sense are just experiences being carefully tailored to appeal to the human senses and often to ideals of wealth, status, superhumanness, while designer products are more so hyperreal versions of luxury products, tailored to appear like those luxury experiences, but without the actual sensory pleasure or craftsmanship-like a poorly scanned and printed version of an oil painting. There also is usually a different goal in the use of designer products, which as you carefully detailed is usually more about signaling status, value, etc. especially for those who feel insecure about their own status, value, etc., and are not intended to actually mimic a luxury internal sensory experience. But outside of the terrible working conditions and unethical practices involved, which are not limited to designer products and can very well be involved in the highest luxuries-even the best craftspeople and people who buy from them likely eat food farmed by underpaid workers and buy products or items made in unethical conditions-so I don't actually think luxury clearly comes out on the moral high ground. Luxury is still often an appeal to our desire for pleasure or for the experience or social gains from what call beauty.
That might seem like stating what's obvious but I feel like it calls into question the moral framework that underlies a preference for luxury over designer-we assume that luxury is more morally good because it feels better and is more 'real' (at least better and more real than the attempt to mimic quality seen in designer), but that's all still being filtered through our human biology and neurology. There's a kind of closed circle by which even luxury cannot transcend human nature and cultures and thus necessarily involves some degree of manipulation because it ultimately must appeal to and stoop to that nature and those cultures in order to be perceived by humans as high-quality or 'good' or enjoyable or valuable.
That isn't to say that something luxurious shouldn't exist or isn't actually enjoyable but that it could potentially be another form of manipulation at a level that is even more difficult to parse because it's so woven into our natures and cultures, in the same way that designer works on people who don't realize they're being tricked. Some people experience their non-luxury products as highly enjoyable and valuable and that suggests to me that even luxury is not necessarily what it appears to be and is still playing into inherent human issues and desires, perhaps sometimes in unethical ways and other times maybe in ethical ways.
This is so beautifully written. I love it ♥️ thank you so much for this gorgeous vanitas ✨🕊️
Great points. I like the French word exigence you mentioned, to be exacting and demanding of things rather than expecting people to gain value from a logo.
Great points! Especially about the celebrities getting something out of "advertising" those designers' items.
more specifically, people who have a fear of being perceived as poor. i notice this more in first-generation immigrant people. there’s a lot of “poor” people who are the originators of art forms, who come from the very cultures that designer brands steal ideas & art from. most poor people have to be creative & innovative to survive. so i think it’s a specific tier of poor people who have internalised that proximity to wealth through the wearing of designer brands will save them from classism & all the isms.
Brilliant observation 🩵✨
You’re highly intelligent, stay wise 👌
If you have a tag sale you can sell anything with the label missing. Plus I have sold outfits online in the past and people will buy a whole outfit with shoes if you have a good sense of fashion.
When I really REALLY love something and live it for the design and quality, I always buy it at 50% off or lower. Never buy designer clothes, I buy quality timeless clothes.
"Rich girl Staying Rich" love it 🌺🪸🌹
6:10 Celebrity psychology, Why people love celebrity
6:20 Celebrity = they show you, your qualities you recognize in yourself, but haven’t awaken fully yet*** 6:34
= Embody qualities 6:50
7:30 Feeling cooler = The underlying beliefs = 7:42 -> 7:48 = secured client
8:00 Luxury, who actually gets served?
9:50 Insights of Luxury
11:30 True luxury is being gate kept
13:50 Unchurnable/Unturnable craftsmanship
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This is the first video I watched from you, I just subscribed to your content. Thank you for sharing.
This can be implemented with almost anything, real estate, “vegan foods “ , cars, tech, etc. You’re only paying for the name and Zip code.
Zip codes are unfortunately very important
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Great point of view, I agree…
I love your videos. I feel intuitively that you are speaking truth. (: ❤
I’m so glad I found your channel ❤
100% agree with this. instead of buying designer, buy something made by a craftsman. it’ll be higher quality and last way longer.
They're often great value too because they haven't leveraged a huge marketing budget :)
you are so insightful, i like listening to you.
YUUUPPP!!! Thank you for this!!
L'exigence bien sûr, sans oublier l'excellence à la française dans les métiers d'art. Merci pour cette vidéo !
love your energy~
Tellement bien expliqué ! Merci pour ce partage. 😊
Very smart takes here
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great video!
I wish women would not waste one dollar on any designer items. Money should never be waste on making rich people more rich.
Thank youuu
I get those things on sell from resell shops. I o ly buy items that i petdonally like. Not to please others.
Well said
Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead. - Rick Owens
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I agree great video! :)
That Chinese expression is called 智商税
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Interesting...
Designer of Fast Fashion brands, you meant?
I love your thinking...
I loved the you put my thoughts into words ❤ than you +1 subscriber
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