Well that’s interesting about Coach. Because I got that little floral jacket from their 1949 (?) collection from 3 years ago at Ross. It’s actually rather like an H&M little silky jacket I have from perhaps 6 years ago. The Coach’s original price was $895. Now, the design and fabric patterns are there. It’s pieced, piped, lined and weighty. The H&M has none of that. The zipper however is pretty crap. The H&M has a better zipper. I think a zipper is pretty important, and if H&M can do it, so could Coach. I’m pretty sure the price of a good zipper cannot have skyrocketed out of the reach of Coach in three years.
Also: So I say I’m a Gucci girl, but my pieces are very very very old. The quality is beautiful. I breezed by the site and looked at the bags. Now I do like their crazy hectic current look, but... Prices have tripled in the last 20 years. I see the bags still have details like bag feet. I also see that the bag feet are so small, it looks like the bags touch the ground anyways.
What’s interesting to me is that all these fashion houses struggle. I want to know what ‘struggle’ means to them. Is it that, like for so many, that they can’t satisfy the greed at the top?
