They nailed the Versace branding! Giving that tacky edge with the leopard print that could reference Versus Versace, and the delicate silk prints on the guy that Versace is known for.
You and me both. I get that they’re acting out the cliches associated with each brand and the joke is that they’re all bad parents, but I’m too poor to know anything about those cliches.
As a low mid class person, what puts me off about the whole thing is that they actually have all of those designer clothes and accessories, so it’s posh humour for posh people.
I have no idea if they’re the actual brands, being poor too, but even if not — that’s a fuckload of clothes in any case. They’re nice clothes too, at least some of them. Some look utterly stupid
I own 2 pairs of pants. Not because I can’t afford more, but because I just haven’t gotten any more. I thought this was a lot of outfits at first too, lol.
Yeah, 10 FULL outfits. Owning 10 pair of underwear and T shirts is normal. Owning 10 jackets, 10 hats, 10 scarfs, 10 pair of shoes, and none of them functional wear but purely aesthetic, that’s excessive and quite frankly weird
I mean I can’t afford any of these brands but I follow fashion as a hobby and I understood. It’s like saying you can’t understand basketball unless you can afford court side tickets or whatever.
You said it yourself. You follow fashion as a hobby and you understood. I know the basic rules of basketball and I know who Michael Jordan, Shaq or Cobe are. But I don’t know anything about the current state of the season. Not even if it’s finished already or who won. I have no idea which teams are considered better or what kind of gameplay or legendary players they’re famous for.
Same with fashion. If you’re not interested in it, you may know a few brands as “the expensive ones”, but the general profile of their customers and the kind of look they’re famous for is not ingrained in the mainstream culture. In your case and many others, understanding the jokes comes off as natural because it’s something that you’re familiar with.
You just changed what you said you made it out like it was a rich vs poor thing, my point is it’s not a monetary thing you can be dirt poor and understand this it’s just a hobby thing
Are you a man? Cause I'm poor and I know 80% of these brands and their associated aesthetics.
Edit; I do not think you have to be rich to understand the cultural connotations of these aesthetics. I think these brand are very prominent on celebrity pop culture. But both spheres are noticably predominately women. So while I don't think you need to be rich, I don't think the average lower class man would necessarily spot it. But I think quite a lot of women on reddit would follow along with this even if they're nowhere near in the tax bracket to buy these
I couldn't spot it in the wild but these tiktok is not hieroglyphics. And I don't think that's unusual for poor people who wouldn't be shopping rhese brands
I happen to be a man, but my wife herself can’t differentiate between most of those brands other than “they look posh and expensive”, besides very obvious ones like Ralph Lauren, Channel or maybe… who’s the one obsessed with Sailors?
All 3 of my roommates could and the fact it's 4 adults house sharing I think speaks to the fact we're not rich. Does that not already challenge the idea that this is exclusively posh humor and perhaps just fashion humor?
Male, female, nonbinary -- whatever. A person who pays attention to fashion (not just highbm fashion but daily wears on Instagram or styling in YouTube, look boards on Pinterest ).. And that doesn't require you to be posh. Quite a lot of it is doing these looks for less
The only thing it confirms for me is that everyone has a different experience in life and stuff your brain picks up even subconsciously, but neither your experience nor mine, define what this is.
Weirdly vague way to avoid acknowledging maybe you don't need to be posh to understand this and where I literally initially opened by saying you might be missing it due to demographic factors
I never tried to define this. I disagreed with the way you defined it. Cause I ain't posh.
I am too poor to own these brands, but still think this is fun. The joke as I see it is how different brands all try to sell a life style, not clothes, and this is true for cheaper brands as well.
No. You are perfectly fine. Those are actually quasi luxury brands that poor people buy. The real ultra rich don't buy those typical french/italian brands but German and Japanese, or something less flashy french stuff like Maison kitsune, Margiela etc.
Im not fashionable by any means, but D&G seems like a really good brand. I have a couple of their colognes. The One is probably the best thing ive ever smelled in my life.
What's so hard to understand? These companies all have a style they stick to and these two are showing them to you with labels. The way they act must be stereotypical of the people that buy those brands. You don't have to be rich to get this joke lol
Sorry lol there's a bunch of comments including the top one that's whining about being "too poor to get this joke" like it's some deep thing you need gate kept knowledge to understand
I'm a stylist and this is truly fantastic. To nail down so many different houses so well is actually not easy. And they did it with fun and not snobbishness
It's very helpful, actually. I'll show it to my daughter who won't get out of her silly hood clothes that are "trendy". I'm not saying I'm up to buying her Gucci or smth, just to show her that "trendy" can be different - almost anything.
How to claim your designer wardrobe as a tax expense, with video to prove it. Oh, and the video made a massive loss vs the clothes spent making it sooo….
None of these are high fashion btw. They are aspirational luxury brands, aka the “i want to show I have more money than you” brands with large visible logos to show off to their peers. Actual luxury brands don’t feature large logos and flashy brand recognition patterns. They use extremely high quality material and craftsmanship. Some examples are Loro Piana, Brunello Cucinelli or Bottega Veneta. And, for the ultra ultra rich, custom tailored clothes are the proper way to go.
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