Alt Luxury Industrial Complex
Here, genuine and counterfeit luxury dance on a thin line, and we invite you to explore the intricate layers of this duality with us. Our dialogues are as insightful as they are entertaining, peeling back the veneer to reveal hidden realities. Together. Let’s reinterpret the value concept and uncover what lies beneath the surface.
DIOR Small C’est Bag Buying Guide: How to Style a Modern Essential
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
Who Owns Luxury? CHANEL’s Struggle to Police Resale
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
Sleek, Serious, and Subtly Over-the-Top — Meet the YSL Voltaire in Box
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
CHANEL Resale: Authentic Bag, Borrowed Story
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
The HERMÈS Evelyne: Ideal for Storing Lip Gloss and an Inflated Ego
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
Lock and Stitch: How the Birkin Stays Out of Reach
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
Luxury’s Other Side: The Truth Behind the ‘Made in Italy’ Promise
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
The Devil Wears Vintage: Why Fashion Houses Are Freaking Out Over Resale
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
How Maria Grazia Chiuri Shapes the Feminist Ideals at Dior
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
Minimal Isn’t Empty. It’s Empowered.
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
THE GOLDEN CONE: HOW DESIGNER GELATO BECAME ASIA’S TASTE FOR STATUS
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.
The Power of Mess: Jane Birkin’s Iconic Rejection of the Traditional Handbag
Luxury brands have turned handbags into high-stakes bait—and we keep falling for it. Discover how scarcity, resale myths, and VIP manipulation fuel a billion-dollar industry of emotional spending.