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Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by pxc »

bartvk wrote: post #779
tempestn wrote: post #746

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Inspired by the concept of "a piece of cloth", we give you this "3d-knitted" piece of cloth to put your phone in. It's kind of difficult to actually get a phone into and out of, and it looks a bit ridiculous, but don't worry, it's only $160 (unless you want the long strap). Like, if you were doing this as an April Fools joke post, what would you even change?

I get what you’re saying, to you it feels ridiculous. But the thing is, these are professional designers that have put out a product. The product page shows their professional language and it doesn’t work for all people. But I guarantee you that they thought long and hard on this, and have very good reasons for each and every aspect of the product. It is not half assed work. I don’t see a reason to take it as a joke.

> But the thing is, these are professional designers that have put out a product.

Can't you say that about basically anything?

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

reaperducer wrote: post #280
nathan_compton wrote: post #73

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The pants cost around 500 bucks? I don't necessarily believe that a priori spending $500 on a pair of pants is irrational, but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something. I usually buy cheap clothes and mend them and ten years for a pair of pants isn't unusual for me. I probably haven't spent $500 dollars on clothes in a year ever in my enti…

I don't necessarily believe that a priori spending $500 on a pair of pants is irrational, but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money Maybe he's amortizing them. He says they've lasted ten years, so that's $50/year. If they last another ten, that's $25/year. Oh, great. Now I've invented Pants-as-a-Service.

>Now I've invented Pants-as-a-Service.

If you forget to renew then the zipper stops working.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by OJFord »

walletdrainer wrote: post #724
OJFord wrote: post #613

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You misunderstand, it's 20EUR for the trousers; 480 for the name printed on them. (And why you even want a name/logo printed on them...)

Show me one Issey Miyake clothing item with a name/logo printed on it.

Ok, maybe they don't; plenty do. 480 for the licence to tell people about it then.

Point is they're not 500-quality trousers, that's well into tailored cotton territory for a start, or you could buy better off the peg for much less.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by lucideer »

zippergz wrote: post #805
lucideer wrote: post #791

It shouldn't be legal to sell products under the name of a dead person (at the very least in cases where there's a strong chance buyers are given the impression that the person had something to do with production of the product). > a collaboration between ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple Issey Miyake died 3 years ago. He has not participated in this "collaboration".

Can we also not have Levi's? Ford cars? Jack Daniel's? All of their namesakes died a very long time ago.

I added a qualifier because these exist (see also pretty much every Japanese company), though if such a hypothetical law were implemented I'd honestly see no major moral gain in protecting the creation of new names like those either. If Strauss had decided to name his company something other than his own name it wouldn't have altered the quality of the product.

But no, those aren't comparable here because people today don't believe Henry designed the latest F150

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by StopDisinfo910 »

thrw045 wrote: post #828
bborud wrote: post #745

Objects have to earn the right to exist. We make so much stuff. Most of it unnecessary. Stuff that will soon be cluttering your home and then end up in a landfill. This is not a product that deserves to exist. It is not made from quality materials ( Nylon (14%), Polyester (85%), Polyurethane (1%)). It is not innovative. It is questionable whether it solves its primary use case particularly well. What makes this parti…

You hate on Louis Vuitton but have you ever tried one? Have you looked at all the designs they have? I think LV is better than Hermes bags with that horrendous closure they have on the Birkin and other bags. LV has cool colorful designs also in their ready to wear. You might object to the branding but the bags work very well and are designed well in terms of how easy it is to get stuff in and out and if you don't thr…

They hate on Louis Vuitton plastic bags, not Louis Vuitton in general, and they are entirely right to do so. It's the same with their perfumes, keychains, wallets and most other small accessories. All products which are far too expensive for what they are but remain reachable by the average person to capitalise on people who want the brand but can't afford the "real" products.

Buying entry level products from luxury brands is hard to justify. At their price point, you can generally get a far better equivalent product from a brand with less appeal. It's especially true with Louis Vuitton where the brand's cachet has been severely diluted by how many people own their bags.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by 12ian34 »

hilarious seeing so many folk here turning their nose up at spending so much on an accessory from a well known designer brand. Apple devices could be considered by many (particularly outside of Californian circles) as of the same ilk.
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