News just in from New York. In the same week that Francesca Eastwood,
daughter of Clint and newbie reality TV star, made the peculiar decision
to set fire to $100,000 Hermes Birkin bag in the name of art, a
disturbing new trend has arisen in the fashion world. Handbag-trashing –
the deliberate defacing of designer handbags.
Don’t believe us? Meet xoJane Beauty Director Cat Marnell [above]. Cat
was recently, proudly, photographed with a graffiti-tagged, filthy white
Balenciaga City bag. Whether it was intentional or merely a downside to
her subway commute that turned the white £945 handbag grey is unknown.
But we can probably assume the graffiti was intentional. But such is the
demonstrative power of the fashion world that others within the
blogosphere have now followed suit.
One bag-trasher is Alison Freer, a Texas-born costume designer, who felt
the need to make a ‘socio-economic/political/cultural statement’ on
designer labels, and promptly spray painted and stencilled her Louis
Vuitton multicolor monogram Murakami bag (check out the gallery above).
Why? As a reaction to consumerism and because of their ubiquity: ‘even
my cleaning lady had one’, she said.
Ditto a Gucci handbag which she has also ‘tattooed’. In her defence, it
was from a collaborative collection with Rihanna for UNICEF, so she was
in fact also doing her bit for charity. But riddle us this, Alison: why
do you now feel the need to vandalise your sky blue Hermes Kelly as
you’re now threatening? WHY?
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