Do designer bags go out of fashion?

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To Sparkletastic
"I’d refrain from saying young people don’t like quality items or need us to educate them on taste. My children only choose quality items and we’ve never had a lesson on the subject. And, there are a number of young tPF’s that can and do teach me about items as well."

But if you have good taste, you choose quality and you have financial possibilities, your children would probably follow your example.
 
LV, Chanel, Gucci, and every single brands out their ALWAYS put out new stuff to keep us interested to come back and spend. Otherwise they will not survive if each customer had a mindset to only need one good quality bag. They are there to make money.

I agree, and every season they "reinvent" their iconics with new colors to be on fashion for that year.
 
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To Sparkletastic
"I’d refrain from saying young people don’t like quality items or need us to educate them on taste. My children only choose quality items and we’ve never had a lesson on the subject. And, there are a number of young tPF’s that can and do teach me about items as well."

But if you have good taste, you choose quality and you have financial possibilities, your children would probably follow your example.
I never bought designer, luxury anything as they were growing up. Those were wealth building years not wealth spending ones. I was so strict in my spending that my BFF finally dragged me to the mall to make me stop wearing a moo cow print skirt I got on clearance from WalMart. I don’t think my children’s good thoughtful taste came from childhood lessons caught. Their mindsets on education and wealth building yes. Fashion? Not even a little bit.

SO, after entertaining you with financial building hijinks and fashion faux pas from my personal life, let’s get back to the point I was making. It’s extremely condescending to say that younger people are only interested in cheap loud shirts and jeans and need to be tutored out of their ignorance. Many young people can and are making beautiful decisions to buy quality, buy sustainably and buy stylishly. And, many older people are buying fast fashion junk as they either don’t care or poorly prepared financially for later years and don’t have a choice.

Older people don’t have a monopoly on fashion, style and taste. It’s delightful that those qualities can be found in anyone.
 
Unfortunately the super popular ones do, that's what I am always concerned about. However, I suppose it's how much you really care. Unless you are in a high fashion circle or a public figure, I sometimes wonder whether it matters if we like it
 
Fashion is cyclical, and as @maxxout so succinctly discussed, if you're buying designer bags with making a return/money back on your 'investment' in mind, it's not the best choice. Personally, I buy what I love, do I care if it's in fashion? Not really... bags and makeup and shoes/clothing are meant to bring joy to your life beyond their practicalities... not be an exercise in making money.
 
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Of course bags go out of style. There are timeless styles that endure, but there are misfires and duds and things that work for a while, but eventually don't. Even timeless bags sometimes come in colors or sizes that don't stay relevant forever. But it's a cycle. A well-made bag will always find its way back.
 
Being “in style” or “out of fashion” is just a tactic used to sell, sell, sell.

Personally, I stick to my style. I may go outside my box ever so often. I like what I like and don’t follow trends. Never have. Never will. It sounds exhausting. I don’t have the mental bandwidth to worry about what strangers think about my style.
 
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