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C’mon, Brie, I don’t want to be a party pooper, but this fun item costs $1,645,00 on the linked shipping site!!!

Need them all!
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I agree. And it’s not even good looking. I can sew a bunch of much prettier shopping totes for a fraction of the price. Possibly from recycled materials, too. And they are unique!

I need One !! <3

Trop cher pour un cabas !

I love the stripes, the colors, the size, the shape…. Beautiful. The price? Yeah… No way. :)
But I enjoy looking at it in the photo. :)

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It’s a funny thing, how some of us are absolutely repelled by the idea of a bag – albeit in leather – that reminds us of a plastic Chinatown bag… wasn’t that the same inspiration for an entire clothing one season, for Mui Mui?)

For me, I love those Chinatown bags and have no trouble with carrying a bag that looks like the Chinatown bags. If I like something, I will wear, or carry it, regardless of what it reminds others of.

Only, these leather versions also make me feel a little sad, because I used to wish the original plastic woven giant versions that I saw the destitute elderly, Asian folk carry their entire life’s belongings in) was made in a smaller version for me to use daily. And then, I remembered the bowed backs of the old people dragging the bags behind them…

I also have no problem with the fact that Balenciaga has made them in a long-wearing leather versions, is pretty cool, and would be more than happy to used one simply because – like Brie, I really love the colours and vertical stripes. However, I would never pay that much for them (the only size I like is the small 10″ x 11″: I never carry anything larger now, unless I am using it as a travel bag for two weeks), as I know strips of leather like that are so, so, so cheap – literally off-cuts from leather used for their other bags. No crime in that (use everything you have – don’t waste), but since I have actually made a cloth version of these Balenciaga bags out of fabric off-cuts, I know how easy and fast it is for a huge company like Bal to do this… and for me, it feels odd to pay thousands for a bag that takes them a fraction of the time they need for, say, their (still for me) iconic City, or First bags. It’s the same principle I maintain for buying only cheap white and marle grey T’s every few seasons from cheap labels, as I have discovered personally that the linen Ts from crazily expensive brand honestly are no different from the cut – or texture and quality – of my inexpensive Sportsgirl linen white Ts… and mine have lasted about four years so far.

Fashion has become such play on the mind these days… I mean, it used to be, “Ooh – I like it – can afford it – buy it – love-it – wear it”. Now, it’s, “like it – why? – is it subversive, or referencing something the I like/hate – if so, is that why I want it? okay, I like it – can I afford it? – okay – buy it”. Having said that, I guess the fact that I feel a tinge of sadness thinking of the old people dragging their life’s belongings in the original plastic striped bags means that I’m also attaching my own psychological baggage – pun truly and respectfully unintended – to these new Balenciaga leather striped Chinatown bags.

I love that Garance Studio just posts that things that they really love – things that they view as lovely and uplifting… and there are no political, or psychological undercurrents… and if there are, I must be too vague to hone in on it!

This color seems inexistent in Italy, and also in France and… I totally love it!

Please let me know the style number ! :)