What’s your unpopular Hermes opinion?

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#5,236
S0nia said:
Well I guess that will be the ultimate test, right?
The great sorting of those who actually love those bags (and who have all my respect, after all grannycore is a respectable style, just like any other :lol:) from the fakers, poseurs and impostors who will therefore be exposed...? Yay?

Anyhow, anyone who thinks the demand for these bag cannot crash is delusional. Every other cool/it/fashionable bag before has had its time and then faded away. Not so long ago, when I was a girl, nobody would have dreamt of stepping outside carrying a K besides your grandma. Actually H bags were the kind of stuff Bernadette Chirac's muppet was clutching on Canal+ Guignols :lol: (IYKYK)
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Again IYKYK!

Their coolness is totally manufactured and will die down at some point.

Again, that is fine, as a Bal Motorcycle GGH fan myself, only now scratching this itch 20 years after the "it" moment, everyone around me thinks my bags are passé and that I look like a hasbeen. Fine with me!

But let's get real here, the H bubble cannot not burst. That would go against all the laws of the univers, from gravity to Divine Law!
Armbaggedon, I say, and that will be a sight to behold!

Cheers!
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Although I sense a bit of schadenfreude in your posts here, I actually agree with you. My unpopular opinion is that I find Hermes bags less appealing when I see people who are kinda silly vogueing in their SKIMS with their MK, cameraman following, doing numerous takes on Rodeo Dr. Just no. I think true fans of Hermes agree that this frenzy is overdone. The popularity may have contributed to the price spike in their RTW last two seasons. My last receipt was an OMG moment, 40 percent higher than any of my other receipts.
 
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haute okole said:
Although I sense a bit of schadenfreude in your posts here, I actually agree with you. My unpopular opinion is that I find Hermes bags less appealing when I see people who are kinda silly vogueing in their SKIMS with their MK, cameraman following, doing numerous takes on Rodeo Dr. Just no. I think true fans of Hermes agrees that this frenzy is overdone. The popularity may have contributed to the price spike in their RTW last two seasons. My last receipt was an OMG moment, 40 percent higher than any of my other receipts.
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Actually no schadenfreude here (or maybe a little, tiny weeny little...).
More like provocation and annoyance.
I do not have a dog in that game. Don't care much for big H. But God do I hate the hype around their bags! And I hate the fake-scarcity game and the culture around it and how it is contaminating everything nowadays. It sucks the air out of every space now. Can't go anywhere to escape the Hermès circus. People become neurotic and hysterical over those damn bags.
People dressed in PJs totting around a H bag truly believe themselves to be stylish, just because the bag is Hermès. Come on. Down with that already!

I yearn for the return of days when we can enjoy a bag for the bag's own aesthetic qualities alone, regardless of branding.
 
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#5,239
S0nia said:
Actually no schadenfreude here (or maybe a little, tiny weeny little...).
More like provocation and annoyance.
I do not have a dog in that game. Don't care much for big H. But God do I hate the hype around their bags! And I hate the fake-scarcity game and the culture around it and how it is contaminating everything nowadays. It sucks the air out of every space now. Can't go anywhere to escape the Hermès circus. People become neurotic and hysterical over those damn bags.
People dressed in PJs totting around a H bag truly believe themselves to be stylish, just because the bag is Hermès. Come on. Down with that already!

I yearn for the return of days when we can enjoy a bag for the bag's own aesthetic qualities alone, regardless of branding.
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We can still enjoy our bags. All this parading around is just show & tell & a way to get attention
We don't have to give any credence to it! There is always going to be a group that are the fashion victims
parading head to toe in label dressing.
I've seen it with Dior, Gucci, Chanel & others especially at fashion shows in NY & Paris..
 
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#5,240
TC1 said:
I get that this forum is unpopular opinions. But you sure have a lot of posts in a forum you don't care about :lol:
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The unpopular opinions thread is irresistible. It’s the Megan and Harry thread of H sub forum lol :lol:

@haute okole , life would be very boring if we didn’t feel some schadenfreude, or at least superiority over the skims wearing influencers, about something :drinks::P Re the rise in H corporate profits and prices, @textilegirl wrote a great post in H chat, post 19,698 here: https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/hermes-chat.870181/page-1314

Unpopular opinion: I love deals, so the more the influencers prance around with mini bags, the better the resale on 28/30s, which are now apparently considered quite large lol
 
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TC1 said:
I get that this forum is unpopular opinions. But you sure have a lot of posts in a forum you don't care about :lol:
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I actually care about that forum since it is the only place the "unpopular opinions" can be vented.
Everywhere else has been overtaken by the H thralls and minions! Even my own social media despite all my blocking and unfollowing!
Every influencer is falling one after the other into the hands of the enemy! :lol:
I am surrounded and besieged!!!
:lol:
 
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S0nia said:
Actually no schadenfreude here (or maybe a little, tiny weeny little...).
More like provocation and annoyance.
I do not have a dog in that game. Don't care much for big H. But God do I hate the hype around their bags! And I hate the fake-scarcity game and the culture around it and how it is contaminating everything nowadays. It sucks the air out of every space now. Can't go anywhere to escape the Hermès circus. People become neurotic and hysterical over those damn bags.
People dressed in PJs totting around a H bag truly believe themselves to be stylish, just because the bag is Hermès. Come on. Down with that already!

I yearn for the return of days when we can enjoy a bag for the bag's own aesthetic qualities alone, regardless of branding.
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There you go. People with no taste, a majority of the celebs who parade around with Hermes, acting like wearing the brand makes them classsssssssy. The fact that Hermes panders to this and the PR adjacent to it is annoying. Why should Jane Smith have to give up her first born child, and be on a waiting list when some celeb posts a picture with 6-10 orange boxes filled with bags? That celeb did not have to wait or plead for a special order.
 
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gracekelly said:
There you go. People with no taste, a majority of the celebs who parade around with Hermes, acting like wearing the brand makes them classsssssssy. The fact that Hermes panders to this and the PR adjacent to it is annoying. Why should Jane Smith have to give up her first born child, and be on a waiting list when some celeb posts a picture with 6-10 orange boxes filled with bags? That celeb did not have to wait or plead for a special order.
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Bc all of those celeb’s followers will run to Hermes. . . And buy lip gloss, thereby making H shareholders very happy lol

unpopular opinion: I don’t have much use for anything on the first floor (runs away quickly) :biggrin:

ETA: the importance of make up in the H world is enormous. While in Scandinavia, if I recall correctly, H Stockholm carries no RTW but H Oslo, a smaller store did. When I inquired, i was told that the powers that be chose stockholm to carry make up. And the implication was it was a much more profitable store.
 
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880 said:
Bc all of those celeb’s followers will run to Hermes. . . And buy lip gloss, thereby making H shareholders very happy lol

unpopular opinion: I don’t have much use for anything on the first floor (runs away quickly) :biggrin:

ETA: the importance of make up in the H world is enormous. While in Scandinavia, if I recall correctly, H Stockholm carries no RTW but H Oslo, a smaller store did. When I inquired, i was told that the powers that be chose stockholm to carry make up. And the implication was it was a much more profitable store.
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I would love to check out the make-up in a dept store, however, I fully realize that it probably is no better than Chanel or another quality brand. The company knows that perfume and make-up are cash cows and if they can get a buyer to later graduate into buying a scarf, they are happy. They aren't interested in using makeup to attract people to buy bag. They really don't need that. So perhaps my unpopular Hermes opinion regarding this, is that the company has stooped to the level of any other brand that used makeup to attract $$$. A certain degree of exclusivity has been lost IMO as they are mass marketing.
 
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#5,248
S0nia said:
Actually no schadenfreude here (or maybe a little, tiny weeny little...).
More like provocation and annoyance.
I do not have a dog in that game. Don't care much for big H. But God do I hate the hype around their bags! And I hate the fake-scarcity game and the culture around it and how it is contaminating everything nowadays. It sucks the air out of every space now. Can't go anywhere to escape the Hermès circus. People become neurotic and hysterical over those damn bags.
People dressed in PJs totting around a H bag truly believe themselves to be stylish, just because the bag is Hermès. Come on. Down with that already!

I yearn for the return of days when we can enjoy a bag for the bag's own aesthetic qualities alone, regardless of branding.
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Good observation about the pajamas. I dont understand how that is fashion. Thankfully i havent seen matching Hermes silk pajamas worn on social media.
 
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