For those living in Lima, the maker's name is Huerta and is located in SMP

What a wacky, holier-than-thou take. I could just as easily say that by buying secondhand from big brands, you are still feeding into the demand for those brands that causes them to produce in harmful ways. I don't believe that, I think that would be a silly thing to say, just like trying to imply that buying made-to-order isn't better than buying new in store. Obviously I'm juxtaposing that with brands who print hundreds or thousands of pieces per style, maybe even burning the leftover stock. Nothing is perfect in capitalism, but the point of my video is that made to order is *better*. It doesn't fix the world, but it is better. To imply otherwise is pointless contrarianism.

@@LOWluxury is it better when you already have what you need? you bring out your barely used alexander mcqueen wallet to show how much worse the leather is but it's still holding together as if it's never left the house. You get onto new boots when you already bought several pieces that are perfectly fine and achieve a nearly identical look. It would be better if there weren't people like you who after posting a video like this go back to buying stuff from big brands or just continue the discourse around big designers. I guess that's the problem when you have nothing else going for in your life than blind consumerism, outside of buying fashion and discussing fashion there isn't much else going on in there so you trick yourself into thinking that this stuff actually matters and is a genuine hobby so you automatically justify your habits. you can justify anything in fashion by saying "it's fine if i can resell this and it doesn't go into the land fill" well no, not everything you're buying is second hand or used to it's fullest, you've bought stuff new despite already having stuff that was perfectly useful. vicious cycle if kicking the problem down the road.

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how are you determining your 1989 suit is of 5k quality today?

With my eyes. And my fingers. The fabrics aren’t as good. The stitching, construction, even the cut. I used to work for RL. I buy Purple Label products now and had a large wardrobe of RL goods in the early 90s. I shop, try on, etc. The same applies to Italian luxury brands.

@@f.kieranfinney457What a bunch of malarkey.

@@andrewxzvxcud2 while you may be technically right, it’s probably a gray area, I couldn’t personally care less whether it’s illegal or legal. To me that only matters if you’re trying to pass off something fake as something real, and that’s essentially impossible here.

@@LOWluxury i agree with the last bits and it is definitely a gray area in most aspects. in the past companies have been sued by levi for incorporating different branded elements that dont even have their name/logo on them. having the "arcuate stitching" , a certain sized tab in certain spot, etc. on a pair of jeans that are being passed off as something other than a pair of levis have gotten companies sued by them. im just saying i think thats kind of dumb for the most part, except like u mention of someone maybe passing off jeans as identical levis or smth. regardless most of these brands "get away with it" anyways as they should. in the example of these jeans tho in the video i think the new interpretation argument might win in court considering how much was changed ab them but idk.

@@andrewxzvxcud2 there’s also a massive difference between taking real product and modifying it and making fake product that has trademarked elements from another brand. For example Nike just sued the shoe surgeon and they were very careful to say “we were totally fine with him buying Nikes and modifying them for sale. We’re not okay with him making shoes from scratch and then putting Nike branding on them”

@@LOWluxury no i completely agree. most of those points i mentioned were of jeans not produced by levis having their brand elements, there was a big thing w japanese denim brands some years ago doing this w jeans they produced not levis. the ironic thing tho is nike has sued mschf for modifying air maxes (i believe rather than making the design from scratch) but it was settled out of court apparently, and im talking ab their charges disregarding the whole satan schtick. basically they had to pull them completely as agreed by both parties. im not aware of any similar cases when it comes to levis tho and they dont seem to care that much or maybe its just bc no brands as big as mschf have rlly done the same thing w levis idk. i didnt know ab the shoe surgeon thing but that seems very odd/contradictory considering the mschf hassle. edit: i looked it up and it seems like there might be some sort of detail w that? "when allowed under Nike-sponsored athletes’ contracts" came after the statement that his one of ones are fine. idk if that means he cant make those one of ones for normal people like me or u and only nike sponsored athletes.

@@germanpride for sure, although it depends on your area. For example, I live in a small city so there are two designers here I’d say are really skilled and have a point of view, and the rest with all due respect to them are doing that kind of stereotypical cut and sew upcycling thing. I feel like that’s usually the first step towards being a more skilled craftsman though so no shade.

Crazy that seemingly every time we get a real look at how luxury fashion is made, it turns out it's not actually "luxury", huh? Kinda seems like a pattern...

@LOWluxury Yes, high fashion brands will continue to find new marketing strategies and new markets and make more and more profits...

I like 'artisanal' brands. I don't know a lot of them. But for what I've seen, most of their clothes don't have the sleek design and structured cut that people are looking for in fashion brands.

@@johnalf-yd2uw this is a fair observation. Some of them lean into the “1800s dirty peasant” aesthetic a lot. Others are more contemporary.

@@Matt-uf2nc lol I know what you mean by the brands who are into '1800s peasant' aesthetic 🤣

@@Matt-uf2nc 1800s dirty peasant is wild but so true 😂

Hey I dig some of the dirty peasant stuff! I think Elena Dawson is awesome, and I can appreciate like John Skelton and Paul Harnden and whatnot, but yeah, wouldn't wear a lot of it.

@@jonl7893 for sure, great catch

@@garylinemeck233 I haven’t bought a leather Celine piece since early Hedi but I’m not surprised. However I know Hedi has massive contractual control over their output so if they push him out I think it’ll get much worse.

I've seen Celine leather jackets with serious defects

@@al_dente34 hmu on insta, I’ll hear offers!

@@LOWluxury will do, thanks.