The ICONS That Fell: BALENCIAGA, LV, DIOR & **Did Dior Contact Me??**

Luxury isn’t really luxurious anymore. Terrible quality, awful service, ridiculous pricing plus with everyone struggling financially can most people justify buying the latest ‘it bag’ then discarding it when the next one comes along. Plus with the increase in crime is it even safe to wear labels? Quiet individual style and just enjoying what you already have seems to be the way forward. Great video as always Sophie sweets ❤❤

I honestly can't believe anyone would support Balenciaga after that ad campaign. There's really no excuse for it. And to be honest, most of their "fashion" is just overpriced trash now. Thank you for addressing the topic. A lot of influencers won't even broach the subject.

Social media did ruin the luxury iconic to a certain extent

I really don't care about trends. I love my NF, Speedy, Alma and Lady Dior, so I will continue carrying them. I haven't bought any luxury bag in the last three years. I am just enjoying the bags I have. Being content and not chasing the latest in luxury made my life better. That is just me. Love and appreciation from Canada.

Dior's use of sweatshops makes them the same as the rest of the fashion industry. Balenciaga's promotion of child SA and CP is on a whole other level of evil.

I’ve never purchased Dior. I have been tempted occasionally by Lady Dior. I’m soured by the current revelations so Dior will forever be off my radar now. Balenciaga, ugh. I’d never purchase anything that kardashions endorse.

Balenciaga is a forever no now. There’s just no going back on that.

Another "fallen" Classic: Burberry check is considered kind of tacky now but I still wear my scarf every winter😂

The truth of the matter is that these bags are all overrated. Now that we know that they cost a fraction of the sales price and that they have horrible practices, it is blaringly obvious that they are not worth it. Also, so many of these items are so copied. There are so many dupes - good dupes that they are not really luxury anymore. LV is kind of the worst of it.

Will never forgive Balenciaga. My first luxury bag was Balenciaga and I have kept it, 14 years later. But it is inside a bin in my attic. I keep it as a memory but I don’t see myself wearing it ever again. I have 3 little girls and I refuse to condone it.

The biggest killer for Speedys and Neverfulls was the number of normal people (like me!) carrying them! The Balenciaga horror caused an obliteration here in Australia. For over a year their boutique was virtually empty. I never saw a single client in there. Now I see a limited number in there when I go by. But they are decimated. The Lsdy Dior may still be iconic but it is over priced, like the book tote! If I had a Lady Dior I would use it but feel no temptation to buy one. Exploitating kiddies is particularly awful. Which does not excuse exploiting vulnerable adults either. Thank you for the video.

Her couture house closed in 1939, with the outbreak of World War II. Chanel stayed in France and was criticized during the war for collaborating with the Nazi-German occupiers and the Vichy puppet regime to free her nephew from a prisoner of war camp. To secure his release Chanel began a liaison with a German diplomat/spy she had known before the war, Baron (Freiherr) Hans Günther von Dincklage.[5][6] And following her nephew's release, she collaborated in minor ways. After the war, Chanel was interrogated about her relationship with Dincklage, but she was not charged as a collaborator due to intervention by her friend—British prime minister Winston Churchill.[7] When the war ended, Chanel moved to Switzerland, returning to Paris in 1954 to revive her fashion house. In 2011, Hal Vaughan published a biography about Chanel based on newly declassified documents, revealing that she had collaborated directly with the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst. One plan in late 1943 was for her to carry an SS peace overture to Churchill to end the war.[8] HOW IS CHANEL ICONIC?

Hermès, Dior and Louis Vuitton should be hand made in France!

Perhaps an unpopular opinion : in my humble opinion both the Lady Dior and the Chanel classic flap are former iconic items whose time has come and gone. They seem staid and fussy and thoroughly unmodern. Also, the Neverful and the Speedy have been done to death by overexposure. I'm not sure what bags feel fresh and modern anymore.

To me luxury is something you buy once. The quality is of such excellence you use it for the entirety of your life. I bought my Chanel, LV, and YSL bags in the mid 70’s and early 80’s when I lived overseas. I was 16 & 17 and bought them with my babysitting money. I was taught you only get a few nice things in life and to buy classics of great quality. I have carried six handbags all my life. Now we over consume; that is what has killed iconic pieces. Over consumption, buying every trend makes pieces tiresome.

I just get sad when I think about how Christobal Balenciaga would be turning in his grave if he knew what they did to tarnish his name

The corrected version is: People say you love something when you don’t have it, but once you have it, you feel like, 'OK, what's next?'

I only had one Balenciaga bag and it’s been destroyed and thrown away. I could never wear it again and didn’t even want to sell it. Maybe that was stupid, but I felt it shouldn’t be out and about advertising the brand.

I will never buy from Kering due to the Balenciaga scandal. There is a difference between children & adults. Obviously exploitation of any kind is horrifying but putting small children in s*xualizing images is demonic. LVMH don’t directly employ the workers, but that’s still not an excuse. I most likely will be hitting a huge pause button on my designer purchases from LVMH. Great video Sophie ❤

Did Balenciaga ever answer for that horrendous ad campaign?? I never saw anything come from the company. And what about the parents of the children?! What the heck were they thinking?!