The WAYWT Discussion Thread - Page 5337

Originally Posted by sipang 

HM ones will be sold as real MMMs through the regular channels and vice-versa, ultimate trolling. Consumerism critique. Deconstruction. Anonymity through ubiquitousness.
Margiela.

Originally Posted by hendrix 

I doubt there's a difference in quality between today's mainline margiela and the H&M collab.
I say this because recent margiela quality is not particularly good, and H&M has the advantage of scale and not having to sell to boutiques. The big margins aren't so necessary.
I like most of the collection, but my problem with it is hyping up something they could've ripped off anyway.

Originally Posted by kindofyoung 

This is just talking about the boots which is the imo best piece but anyway:
It probably wouldn't have been as nice leather (or even real leather at all for that matter), shape might not have been such a perfect copy, and I think that they seem to have found a nice balance between price and quality (the boots are far better than normal hm stuff)

Originally Posted by kindofyoung 

And suddenly just increasing the quality of their clothes as well as the prices with no explanation why probably wouldn't have worked out that good.

Originally Posted by hendrix 


Even the nicest Freudenberg calf is not that much more expensive then the cheap stuff. And today's Margiela certainly isn't using anything approaching freudenberg level. Yeah margins make differences, but far greater costs are saved by producing them en masse and selling through their own retail stores.
what's the quality like on COS? It seems to be ripoff designer stuff at reasonable quality and reasonable price point. One could make anything at any price point, you just have to figure out how to sell it.
You're right, it comes down to explaining to the customer or more succinctly, marketing.
The clothes look nice and the quality looks decent and I'm certainly not going to begrudge people who buy the stuff. It's just the fact that it clearly shows the huge influence that marketing has that kinda saddens me.
We're all brand whores in the end though, I should probably get over it.

Originally Posted by glundr 

I dunno, to me when i see shirt bottoms peaking out from under a sweater it looks so... express/armani exchange. doubly so in an all black and white fit.

Originally Posted by Benesyed 

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Originally Posted by knucks 

new jacket courtesy of capnwes
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