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Bad taste? Balenciaga coffee cup bag is luxury fashion’s latest everyday flaunt
£4,350 calfskin clutch is part of a trend for the wealthy ‘to engage with mass consumption while retaining exclusivity’
“Historically, fashion has always appropriated the common place and utilitarian,” he said, citing “Marie Antoinette dressing up (or down) like a shepherdess” and the £185 T-shirt from luxury label Vetements riffing on the global logistics company DHL. But Orsola de Castro, an author and a cofounder of the activist group Fashion Revolution, thinks these consumer product-mimicking designs are best relegated to the past: “This kind of thing stopped being relevant after Andy Warhol did the Campbell’s soup tins. Photograph: Edward Berthelot/Getty ImagesThe optics of Sánchez, who as an author, pilot and Emmy award-winning journalist reportedly has a net worth of more than $30m (£23m), carrying a mundane object given a mogul makeover are particularly loaded.
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