‘Thrill’ of parading Louis Vuitton bags breathes new life into Sandton City
It’s “the thrill of the bag” - the excitement of carrying a Louis Vuitton designer bag around Sandton City - bringing life back to the mall that has become known as Africa’s ultimate shopping destination, Liberty2Degrees CEO Amelia Beattie said on Monday.
L2D also owns Nelson Mandela Square, the Sandton Convention Centre and three hotels that were often filled to capacity by conference goers for most of the year before Covid-19.
“La moitié de mon salaire”, “Il n’a honte de rien ?”… le t-shirt à 790 euros d’un chroniqueur de “TPMP” choque les fidèles de l’émission !
Il s’en est passé des choses sur Touche Pas À Mon Poste, ce mardi 23 février. Cyril Hanouna recevait, tour à tour, l’avocat de Francis Lalanne, visé par une enquête pour “provocation à la commission d’atteintes aux intérêts fondamentaux de la nation”, le producteur de musique, Michel Zecler, venu témoigner de sa nouvelle vie et Sylvie Ortega, la BFF de Loana.
Les chroniqueurs de Baba étaient d’ailleurs bien en forme pour interroger tout ce beau monde et l’un d’eux a particulièrement marqué les esprits… avec sa tenue originale, voire osée.
Il s’agit du talentueux Guillaume Genton qui a débarqué en plateau avec un drôle de t-shirt sur lequel a été fixée… une peluche !
Sur Twitter, les fans de TPMP ont été nombreux à réagir à ce sujet et ont même retrouvé la marque de la fameuse pièce ainsi que son prix, exorbitant.
C’est en effet un t-shirt Louis Vuitton vendu 790 euros que Guillaume portait hier soir dans le talk de C8, un choix qui n’a pas reçu beaucoup de validations, bien au contraire.
“Ah ouais putain, la moitié de mon salaire”, “C’est pas possible il a perdu un pari ?”, “Affreux”, “LVMH a trouvé sa mascotte. Il a toujours cette marque”, “On gagne bien sa vie à TPMP”, “On vit chez les fous : 800 € cette fringue”, “Le tee shirt même tu me le donnes, je le jette direct”, peut-on lire ici et là sur Twitter.
La minute mode de Guillaume Genton
Que pensez-vous de son look ? #TPMPpic.twitter.com/dcDyaolwyF — TPMP (@TPMP) February 23, 2021
À voir également : Gad Elmaleh se fait torpiller par plusieurs artistes après ses reprises de Claude Nougaro !
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Louis Vuitton ‘Jamaica jumper’ features wrong flag colours
Louis Vuitton has been criticised for producing a jumper that pays tribute to the flag of Jamaica – but in the wrong colours.
The label’s £995 menswear item, called the Jamaican Stripe Jumper online, featured three wide stripes in green, yellow and red. But the flag of Jamaica is green, yellow and black.
The error was called out online, with @pam_boy tweeting: “I cannot stress enough how important it is to implement diversity as a value and not a symbol within fashion companies.”
Others were quick to point out that the jumper appeared to be inspired by the Rastafarian flag (which featured the Lion of Judah at its centre), the religious movement with its roots in Jamaica, instead of the official Jamaican flag.
“So no one at Louis Vuitton googled the Jamaican flag?” asked Twitter user Black Women Matter.
Cedella, the daughter of Bob and Rita Marley, also commented, posting on Instagram: “Bob says that’s the Ethiopian flag @Louisvuitton”, with an embarrassed face emoji, beneath a photo of Marley looking displeased.
When the item first appeared online, the product description read: “With striped design inspired by Caribbean island’s national flag.” After updating the description of the jumper to remove the word “flag” and swap it with “cultural heritage”, the product was pulled from the official Vuitton website. Clicking on the link, you now get a “404 page not found” error message.
“Traditional Rastafari symbols and imagery have been popularised and used extensively in commercial products, ranging from T-shirts, jewellery, arts and crafts items, smoking paraphernalia, hats, clothes, bags and shoes,” wrote Jamaican attorney Marcus Goffe in 2011. “Very few of these products are made by Rastafarians and none of the monies accrued from their sales benefits the Rastafarian community.”
Louis Vuitton’s creative director, Virgil Abloh, who is the son of Ghanaian parents (the colours of the Ghanaian flag are green, golden yellow and red), has previously done a sneaker collaboration with Jamaican skateboarder Lucien Clarke.
Luxury fashion has got into trouble before for producing culturally offensive items, such as Gucci’s blackface jumper and Burberry’s noose hoodie. Last year, Comme des Garçons sent white models down their menswear runway wearing dreadlock wigs.
Many have commented online that this points to the need for having more diverse teams at fashion houses, working at every level in order to battle structural racism and avoid issues like the Louis Vuitton one happening again.
In a statement, Louis Vuitton told the Guardian: “We deeply regret the error in the description on our e-commerce site and we have corrected the information. The sweater is from the spring-summer 2021 men’s collection, throughout which green, yellow and red, the colors of the Ethiopian flag and a hallmark of African independence, were used, including to pay tribute to the Ghanaian heritage of our menswear designer Virgil Abloh.”