Today, I wanted to write about an interaction that caught my attention—about the subject of influence and influencers.
My personal trainer is a young woman trying to stand on her own in a country that is not her own. For her to afford a Togo leather Birkin 35, she would have to save her entire salary for more than a year without spending a single cent.
Today, she told me how much she admires the Croc Birkin collection of a influencer. She asked how much she would need to save to buy a Croc Birkin.
Maybe because I don’t have a daughter, I don’t know, but influencers have never really been in my area of interest—or rather, my area of concern. But on my way home from the gym today, I kept thinking about this.
And I genuinely felt sad.