Do you think Balenciaga is a social experiment?

[Sonic Boom of the South]

These shyts look like asics knockoffs.

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

The real social experiments come from Vetements

$3000

good post

 

[010101]

99.9% of folks are fashion victims*

 

[8WON6]

$16.99 A walmart

$99.95 @ Nordstrom

$268 @ Nordstrom

 

[bigillwill06]

One of my exes bought me Margiela Replica calf skin sneakers. I thought for $500 these joints were waaaaay too plane Jane but seeing others paying $1000 for ascic knockoffs (balenciaga) and wal mart sparklers with fat soles (mcqueens)… I’ve grown to appreciate the margiealas but $500 is still insane for such a plane shoe.

 

[staticshock]

One of my exes bought me Margiela Replica calf skin sneakers. I thought for $500 these joints were waaaaay too plane Jane but seeing others paying $1000 for ascic knockoffs (balenciaga) and wal mart sparklers with fat soles (mcqueens)… I’ve grown to appreciate the margiealas but $500 is still insane for such a plane shoe.

she got you some $500 shoes & you still broke up with her?

 

[Pazzy]

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

The real social experiments come from Vetements

$3000

mate...you really thought you was knowledge flexing with this post when vetements founder Demna Gvasalia is balenciaga's current creative director

they're basically the same brand conceptually

but i'm sure you knew this already

 

[Actually6Foot3]

Got to be. I knew nikkas lost it once folks started wearing these

Like bruh these look like oversized clown shoes

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

to answer OP

no, it's not a social experiment.

it's just the creative director comes from eastern europe and has different cultural references and signifiers to the rest of western europe, especially black westerners

they're just drawing from a different cultural fountain.


















sh'ts pretentious, tasteless and straight up wack as fucc like most of high end fashion though...so at least there's that industry synergy to it lmao

 

[AMcV'88]

Demna is just doing what he did at Vetements on a bigger scale and its working.
people buy the overpriced basics and the interesting but fashionable stuff and talk and create discussion about the other bad and out there stuff.

 

[bigillwill06]

she got you some $500 shoes & you still broke up with her?

giving and receiving gifts is her love language I guess and she broke up with me. Couldn’t handle the fact that I’m cool with my baby momma despite me not fukking….the worst girlfriends are the ones that give you the type of shyt they know u don’t fux wit. For example if all I wear are Js and a bytch buys u some Nike Cortez lol. U gone be looking at a bytch like “thanks I guess”

 

[ImLionyall]

I'd say most fashion is

 

[Bondye Vodou]

It would make some semblance of sense if it was but people are just products of hype. I saw a picture of Offset with some Balenciaga boots that look like some shyt Frankenstein wore.
Over pricing, exclusivity, popular artist wearing it = hype.

Like these shyts here cost over thousand dollars but I feel you'd have to PAY me a grand to wear these.

Spoiler

This is the second time I've seen a grainy ass pic with some Balenciagas where you can see the glue on cheaply constructed shoes. LMFAO @ dummies paying $1000 for this garbage.

 

[Stone Cold]

Branding is everything