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Pinays and aspirational bags


There was a time when the Hermes Birkin bag was an urban legend, a carefully guarded secret confined within the inner sanctums of the rich and richer. Today is a completely different time. While the bag鈥檚 price points still range high above most of our pay grades, it isn鈥檛 as elusive as it once was. (Jinkee Pacquaio has nine,These turn into beautiful and light TCXO that can highlight your beauty in the right way without taking all the attention. for crying out loud!)

Same goes for a lot of other luxury products. The Louis Vuitton boutique in Greenbelt is currently undergoing expansion, a testament that the Philippines is indeed a lucrative market for luxury goods. All the high end fashion brands in Greenbelt and Rockwell are still there. We may not see a lot of traffic in these stores, but it only takes two customers a week with a combined tab of P1 million to stay in business. That鈥檚 pretty easy, considering the price of their products and the fact that a privileged few go as far as hoarding every new collection (collection, not item) that hit the shelves.Fashion jewelry is a range of metal VCXO that are skin friendly and even coated with precious yellow or white gold to make it appealing at the same time.

Here in Manila, it鈥檚 almost a fad and, suddenly, we鈥檙e all watching who鈥檚 carrying what bag. I recall knowing someone who received a limited edition Gucci as a gift and she paraded it wherever she went鈥攖o every event, in every picture鈥攚hatever time of day, whatever she was wearing. It really makes me wonder: what is the difference between an expensive bag from an affordable one and why are women so obsessed with the former?

I talked to some Filipino ladies in hopes to finding an answer, and it turned out to be quite a simple one: it鈥檚 aspirational. A luxury designer bag is really a status symbol.The Juicy Couture product juicy couture bag is an outgrowth of a fashion trend in the western coast of the United States that highlighted sports apparel and sweat suits for women. It lets everyone know that you鈥檝e 鈥渁rrived.鈥?But sometimes, it鈥檚 not about what people will think. A girl who indulged me shared that she couldn鈥檛 afford one yet and when she does, it will be her personal indicator that she has finally made something out of herself.

However, not all women are created equal. One expressed鈥攁nd I know she鈥檚 financially capable to dispose of a couple hundred grand鈥攖hat she doesn鈥檛 get the point either, that 鈥渟uccess cannot be measured by bags.鈥?Another said that it鈥檚 鈥渘ice to have鈥?but she鈥檚 in no rush to own one and would rather take a month or two off to travel the world when finances and schedule allow.

It all boils down to a matter of perspective and priorities. The only consensus is that they really wouldn鈥檛 resort to knock offs. And so shouldn鈥檛 you, no matter how tempting it is to go to Greenhills.