Gucci Couture?
From:
In My Bag
337 days 15 hours 43 minutes ago
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The past weeks have been full of all the usual end of year "what were they thinking" stuff, and predictions for the year to come, well here's one to start 2008 off, and it's a combo, surprisingly, from
Gucci. Usually, if you don't like a Gucci, it's more a matter of personal taste, not poor taste...until the Joy Boston Bags that is.
If you stand a few steps back, and squint, it's easy to mistake the bag for Juicy. not Gucci. The insignia fabric, bright colors, stylized script...it is an emblem-fest of cheesy. It looks like something picked up on 5th Ave, not in the Gucci flagship, but literally ON 5th Avenue. From a table near the street, where the bigger and more frequent the designer name, the better.
Then again, perhaps it is a brilliant bit of marketing genius, to cater to the girls who love their Juicy type logos, but feel they're growing out of the teen years when an embroidered terry cloth bag is enough, and want something still juvenile, but more "exclusive".
At $530, it certainly is almost an entry level bag for the company, not much more than a Juicy bag...maybe it is intended to be a gateway drug for future label slaves?
The Joy Small Boston Bag (it comes in medium too!) is $530 from
Saks.
