On Saturday Lesley and I were in Union Square in San Francisco and did a little sightseeing. We went into the Neiman-Marcus store, a new and architecturally disastrous building that replaced the beloved City of Paris building (yes, they preserved the atrium, but the sleek glass and metal skin around the rotunda, as architectural Paul Goldberg wrote in the NYT, is “…one of this city’s most conspicuous architectural mistakes.”)
MOREOVER, check out the prices ($790 for a pair of sneakers, $5300 for that pair of long black boots)!
Almost all the items (especially the purses and handbags) in there looked ugly to my unsophisticated country boy eyes. Well, wait a minute, here’s a nice shirt, but, ulp, $1650.
What kind of people buy krap at such outrageous prices?
Go to my Instagram post to see the 40-odd comments.
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About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
we used to call that store “Needless Markups”
A nice pair of New Balance works for me
STUPID MONEY!
Yeah. the best way to sell stupendously expensive stuff to stupendously rich people is to make that stuff even more rediculously expensive, since this would only gives them more status. As long as us normal folks have the money to buy reasonally priced but qualitative good products.
I can only smile when I see shit like this. If people want to be ripped off, lets not stop them from being ripped off.
I was in Milan some years ago. You can easily buy a womens bag for thousands of euros. Had a good laugh.