June 5th, 2008
Jimmy Choo’s pilar box clutch bag: about 100 times as expensive as a real magazine
Jimmy Choo’s pilar box clutch bag is apparently supposed to look like a rolled up magazine – which kinda begs the question, "Why not just, you know, roll up a magazine and walk around with it, rather than spending $595 on a bag?"
It is, of course, a totally superfluous question, though, because for one, a rolled up magazine wouldn’t carry any of your stuff, and for two, it’s art, dahlinks! Art!
The art in question is the portrait ‘Nuclear’, by Richard Phillips, and the woman he’s painted looks a little shocked to us. Maybe she just saw a pair of Crocs, who knows…. The important thing is: would you buy it?
Well I wouldn’t, but that’s because…here’s what you do…buy a cheap 5 dollar clutch, cut out your favorite magazine advert, paste it to the clutch. Not only is it cheap, it doesn’t look like a hundred other bags out there. Furthermore, if it were Josh Petkin…MAYBE. That just looks like cheap art to me.
No. Sorry.