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grailed is the new ebay for clothing, ebay fashion is old school...long gone and nearly dead.had an item up for 2 weeks on ebay, posted it on grailed last night, it sold instantly
i'm not complaining about this grailed ****
Hand-dyed sashiko repairs on my favorite item of clothing, six-year-old Wings + Horns sweats
Everyone laughed how I paid $100+ for sweat pants when I was in college, now they're my most-worn garment. Just need a couple hundred more rips so I can turn these into some cool patchwork piece
its maddening how this site has become restock and sizing questions. hardly anyone with any interests beyond just consuming ****
it's nothing new tbh, probably exacerbated at the moment with the sales, preorders etc
also doesn't help that with the current format the less consumption oriented contributions can get easily buried
It really goes so far beyond consuming purchasable items. People are so oversaturated with the consumption images/ ideas/ "inspiration" from all the various forms on their screens that they are too paralyzed to actually do anything except spend their money. It takes a serious effort to stop and appreciate an image and actually take in whatever it is that it could potential give you. There's some interview with raf where he talked about how he didn't like tumblr for that very reason.
@sipang
what about the format causes posts to get buried?
@Coldsnap
congrats on loosing that weight, nice job dude!
Now, let's not sell SF2016 short. After all, I can click at random into the SLP thread and find an illuminating exchange like this incisive, fact-based discourse on a $700+ rtw shirt:
Last quote is my favorite.
Frankly, volume.@sipang what about the format causes posts to get buried?
It's sounds silly, but it's probably not that far off the mark. Collection is not where the money is made. A lot more goes into the cost than design, materials and make.Look at where Saint Laurent Paris boutiques are located - in San Francisco it is right on Union Square, probably the most expensive locations in the city, just for rent. I would be surprised if that space was not at least $10-20K a day, in rent alone. And that is repeated in the most expensive countries in the world, across the world. Then you pay for sales assistants, the ever changing installation, and all the overhead of running a retail space. That's not to mention the money spent on marketing, in all of its myriad forms. Collection pieces are rarely high margin pieces. Denim and sneakers and other entry level items is where the money is made, which is why pretty much every brand of size has denim, even though denim may not be core to the DNA of the brand. And of course, accessories and fragrances. How many of those shirts do you think SLP would have to sell to keep the lights on, no profit.
That said, Saint Laurent Paris is not some small designer brand like a Stephan Schneider or a Norewegian Rain or SNS Herning or whatever that is possibly making the designer and their staff a decent, if not extravagant, living, It's a brand owned by Kering, and I would bet my bottom dollar that Kering is trying to maximize on their investment as much as possible.
fwiw, retail is a very low margin business. In the signal digits. This is why things like decreasing returns rates, increasing the sell through rate at retail and at the lower markdowns, lowering shrinkage *aka theft - a significant problem in retail, managing all costs, are all very important. That's why Amazon is paying big dollars for shoe sizing technology to try to decrease the return rates for Zappos.