£3000 for this? Building site chic?

[MelvinThePenguin]

This is not a unique, covetable design. This is a safety item, misappropriated as “fashion”.

Who would actually want to wear it? Have the designers run out of ideas?

Thank goodness VAT is included in that price! Though possibly refundable as a work expense for the fashion conscious tradesperson?

AIBU?

This

If not in construction, maybe he was on the way to work at a creative media agency - were you in Shoreditch at the time?

www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2021-ready-to-wear/balenciaga/slideshow/collection

Looks like there is also a NASA jacket

I was in a long term relationship with a creative media type in my mid-teens to early-20s. Obviously he only started the job in the latter part of our relationship and it became increasingly embarrassing to be around him.

He’s evidently very, very good at his job, but he now lives a life I would absolutely despise. Warehouse, commune style living in Hackney Wick, despite being pretty well off. Maybe he spends all his money at Balenciaga.

Can anyone explain to me how these fashion houses stay in business?

Agreed. But it seems people are daft enough to buy them

Ah, the full collection!

The jacket is apparently meant to be worn with the bottom half of a suit of armour. Silly me, makes sense now!

Or you could go for the full suit of armour, a picnic blanket or a shirt stuck to the front of another.

Here’s the double shirt option…

A coat made of cockroach husks, or so it would appear

My youngest DS has an array of similar ‘workwear’. He’s an apprentice plumber. And a style icon now 😂.

Is it actually a real brand or an 'Emperor's New Clothes' art collective?
They sell ridiculous clothes which do seem to distort the reality of fashion as art, subverting it into wholly unsuitable (practically or aesthetically) fashion items, only desirable to and hence purchased by the wealthy foolish.
It has long felt like a mockery.

I was confused in urban outfitters the other day when dickies stuff was for sale. That's work wear! Now I see!

The really good news is that everyone who signed up with the ROyal Voluntary Service during the pandemic got given a yellow hi vis vest so presumably they are now high fashion. Perhaps they could auction them to those that miss out on the hi vis jackets and raise a shed load of cash for charity from those with more money than sense.

Proper Marie-Antoinette shit.

@WhoWants2Know Not a uniform, but look what I’ve just found…

A fool and his money………

Not massively original given Demna Gvasalia (the designer) has form for this. Prior to taking over the helm at Balenciaga, he was at Vetements where he did similar with a DHL t-shirt!

Amusingly, and somewhat disturbingly, items like these are not only cash cows but copied by the counterfeiters too. Truly mind boggling.

Orange is the colour for rail workers so perhaps he was catching a train?! My safety sunglasses are more fashionable than any others I have 😳

Over got one of those! From a work safety gear catalogue for site work in the winter, think it cost about £45? Almost identical bar the logo. Finally I'm in fashion, never though it would happen :)

There was a similar thread a year or so ago. Can’t advanced search now, can I?!! Grrrrr.

Reminds me of Will Ferrell's character in Zoolander. The bonkers fashion designer who did a show called 'Derelicte' which was all made out of rubbish.

These days would probably be seen as a high fashion postmodern triumph. Or just some bin bags and gaffer tape. Fashion is crazy.

@Svalberg and other pps. I'm in Salisbury. It's possible but it was so striking I did a double take. Are your glasses these?

😄No. Safety glasses tend to be wraparounds so as to minimise debris going into the eye. Those are very orange!

The firm I work for buys huge quantities of protective clothing direct from the manufacturer which we then sell to the trade, and we do get some items embroidered with our industry customers' required wording/logos.

I reckon we could be on to something here... 😂

Fucks sake I've got one, obviously a knock off at thirty quid, but yanno it means the fork lift drivers can see me.
I will however be asking my workplace for one of these. Rate my chances at zero.

Licensing to Coty to make perfume. A handful of a-list products (for balenciaga the sock trainers) and basic logo tee shirts on something like an 85% margin.

Also hard luxury and small accessories. Loads and loads of people will drop £150 on a card case or airpod holder or similar.