I Save You Big Money!

Your average designer will produce biannual collections, each with a limited production run, swiftly moving from one collection to the next.  However there a number of designers who work for multiple houses or produce pre-seasonal and resort collections alongside the standard affair, so that their output is somewhat more than prolific.  Just as designers move from one collection to the other, so to do the majority of buyers.  If they missed something this time around, who knows, next season they may find something better.  Yet for some, individual artistic design means that they are willing to search for an exact piece - whether that be one of the Helmut Lang jackets from the Spring 1998 collection, or one of the Yohji Yamamoto shirts from the Autumn 1989 collection.  Being able to find those pieces can be a laborious, and not to mention expensive, process.

For Raf Simons fans however, LN-CC have made the task of finding standout pieces from the more recent past collections a whole deal easier with their Raf Simons Archive.  Second hand pieces bought and sold on for impressive prices...   

A printed cotton tote bag?

Oh, that's only £1000...

Charging in the thousands for carefully constructed jackets no longer available is perhaps somewhat understandable, however charging £1000 for a tote bag?  Seriously, give me a tenth of that and I will hand make you a printed silk (way fancier than cotton!) tote bag and deliver it directly to you with a handwritten note.  But if something fancier is not quite up your alley, go onto eBay and buy a plain black tote bag, and then print your chosen design onto it.  How much do you suppose a black cotton tote goes for?  £900?  £800?  Try £1.80.  Seriously, I save you big money.  

For exactly the same price as the second hand archival tote, you could have 555 brand new ones.  Say you use each one of those for one week, after which it feels as old as your withering self in your hands, and you need to burn it and move onto something fresher to numb the pain of age, that is still over ten years worth of tote action!

Mmm, discolouration

You see that?  A white t-shirt with two slits in the back.  But wait for it - it comes exclusively with custom sweat stains from the previous wearer.  Wow!  How much do you have to pay for the honour of such an amazing piece?  Only £500.  

Uniqlo t-shirts happen to fit me like the piece above, and I could take my scissors to them and add two slits rather easily (or even more if I wanted!).  Whilst they are usually available in multibuy offers, I shall take the RRP of £3.99.  Now for that price you could buy 125 t-shirts, brand new and without discolouration to the neck (but if you really want it, just find a sweaty friend).  

I know, I know, the Raf Simons t-shirt may be built to a better quality of construction, against which the 125 Uniqlo t-shirts may not be able to stand against.  However I would like to point out that one of my favourite t-shirts is actually a heather grey t-shirt that I bought for the princely sum of £3 from H&M when I was 15 (don't judge me, I was young!).  As of yet it has no stains, rips or tears (judging from the construction of H&M pieces today you would think it was woven from titanium yarn).  In fact come the nuclear apocalypse, all that will remain is Chuck Norris, cockroaches and that heather grey t-shirt...probably.

Ahh, a worn and torn sweatshirt that needs replacing.  How much could that possible cost?

£2500 and sold out...

P.S. I am tempted to make this a relatively regular feature.

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