Random fashion thoughts - Page 4554

Originally Posted by Teger 

Your complaints were as much about the idea of HM x MMM as the cost of the products: why would the collaboration be monstrous at $300 but a-ok at $150?
The point is that the items look nice because they're carbon copies of MMM items that looked nice in the first place.
What bugs me the most about this is that if you care so much about the exclusivity of designer clothing (which is what most of these complaints amount to), you should applaud these types of collaborations because they introduce your expensive niche brand to a wider audience in a way that shows them the label exists, yet doesn't give them an opportunity to purchase the 'authentic' pieces that you already own. It's a form of advertisement that leads to more aspirational consumers that will recognize your $4000 Lanvin jacket for what it is while understanding what they own is a pale imitation of the original.
This isn't only directed at you - I honestly don't think you're too concerned about the exclusiveness of MMM being diluted by plebes who shop at H&M.

Originally Posted by hendrix 

No, you're completely missing why a lot of us object to it.
It has nothing to do with the relative value, and it's also nothing to do with exclusivity.
The simple fact is that H&M could have copied the items themselves if they wanted to. But they realised that they'd be better off doing a "collaboration" because that would enable them to market the goods based on the hype of the brand.
I.e. the whole thing is a venture in brand hype. It perhaps might not have existed if "Margiela" wasn't in a Kanye lyric. It's not about design, it's not even about value.
I don't care about the items themselves. I think it's great that styleforum is finally able to find a sidezip boot that for some reason has eluded it and caused much strife.

Originally Posted by Teger 

what? I think you need to reread both my posts and a lot of posts complaining about the collaboration.
your posts treats MMM as such a passive entity - any collaboration is a marketing campaign for both parties. and do you know what brand was one of the first to collaborate with H&M? comme de garcons. and that was long before kanye started spouting designer names in his lyrics.
I don't care about how innovative or well designed some their products are (or were), MMM is still a business. to pretend otherwise is to buy into yet another form of marketing - treating designers solely as artist instead of businessmen.

Originally Posted by kindofyoung 


I really want a moto

Originally Posted by slstr 

Hey look it's that same fit you always post

Originally Posted by reedobandito 

Seriously GT, did a synapse snap in your brain?

Originally Posted by mike868y 


i don't think you understand what a synapse is.

i should go to law school and do patent law for pharma companies. then maybe i'd have the prospect of making money sometime in the next 15 years.

Originally Posted by the shah 

Synapse is to snap as hisouse is to house
Lolol all the patents are expiring left and right and the gov't has put absurd caps on patent durations big pharma is out of easy common targets too
Why you guys are going to law skool I know so many graduates from top 5 that got no work and plenty of debt, only on guy who got a good contract after getting out..

Originally Posted by slstr 

Hey look it's that same fit you always post