What’s your unpopular LV opinion?

[Sunshine mama]

Hideous!
It looks like the Country Women's Association of Australia's Christmas raffle circa 1982.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[azure5]

Disclaimer: This is not to offend anyone. Simply an opinion. I am not a business minded person but a client who loves nice things and willing to pay in many other's opinion silly money on such items. I have moved further away from wanting to buy LV over the years and focus primarily on savings for Hermes and/or Chanel. I have read this thread and just reread my post. I am questioning if this speaks to the title of this thread - I think it may have started off this way but ended up being my pet peeves with LV. Sorry if I went a little too off topic. Thanks for reading!

I believe LV is slightly lost and the brand is becoming diluted because I find them wanting to cater to way too large of an audience and not paying attention to the little details that make buying luxury items so special. Regarding their bread of butter of handbags and related accessories, I feel they are focusing on the bottom line of pleasing their investors with earnings instead of the clients who are ultimately driving their earnings. Why do I say this?

1. Their selection at any one time is way too huge and diverse. What's the vision? Inspiration? Where are they going? Intended audience in the market?
2. I can appreciate collaborations but LV's collaborations lately feels too contrived and gimmicky.
3. When a client walks in to spend on a high end luxury price, make them feel special and not like they are walking into the Gap (ok, maybe this is going a little too far with this comparison but you get what I mean. *^__^*). It doesn't matter if they are spending on a coin purse or an exotic - either way they are going to pay a way higher price on that item than if they went standard. Everyone is at a different point in their life and the majority of us have to prioritize our money, save then happily execute and walk out as a proud owner of any kind of luxury item!
4. SA's - spend time with your clients, listen to them, get to know them, show them different items that he/she never thought of and help them edit their choices when making that final decision. I don't believe in overselling or selling clients items they don't need, etc. but I do believe in genuinely showing clients other bags/items that he/she may have not thought of that fits their aesthetic. Many of us don't know what could potentially look great which is outside our comfort zone and don't know the inventory like a SA would.
5. For the love of humanity, can LV please just spend the extra $.50 on some tissue paper or something eco-friendly or get the right size boxes to at least not make my unboxing experience feel like an elementary school child wrapped it. I've received presents wrapped with more love and attention than my LV purchases. I mean, come on, you have a magnetic-like box with a hand tied ribbon in a branded quality shopping bag and then you open your box and your item is swishing around in there like a pinball machine. I just spent a lot of money on whatever item, keep the experience going by making me feel the love when I unbox and see it again at home. Is it asking too much? If it is a green initiative, then tell me such. I don't mind if there is a rational but right now, it seems like LV is just being cheap and saving where they can. Nothing about what I am buying in LV is cheap, so I feel strongly they shouldn't cheapen out just because now they have my money and no longer care about me or my purchase.
6. Another pet peeve is the dust bag. They need to just scrap the current design and start over. I don't know but when I unbox or grab my LV item from the closet, my initial feeling is cheap because of how it looks and feels. Shouldn't I feel a wow, this is luxury?

Whoa this is getting long. Stopping here. Do you think I have opinions or what?

If anyone from LV is reading this, my advice is this - Keep it classy. Classy doesn't mean keep it boring and produce the same "classic" items in different colors and similar iterations (*cough, cough Chanel*). Find your way. You ever hear of that saying - Jack of all trades master of none? Be thoughtful on everything from when a client walks into the door to the experience of using that bag years later.

Thank you for anyone who actually read my long rant. *^__^*

One thing though the poor SAs aren't paid much for the bread and butter lines, like monograms etc. They get about $2 for a sale of one of those. So the remuneration is an issue about how special they make people looking at one, or even buying one feel.

They are pressed to sell more upmarket lines. This is what Commission does to people.

 

[azure5]

Bum = fanny

fanny has a different meaning in Australia. Don't ask me to explain.

 

[azure5]

These print and colors I'm just wondering is LV trying to bring back the 1970's? It's a very loud No for me. View attachment 4679151 View attachment 4679152 View attachment 4679153 View attachment 4679154

It's the youth market.
And definitely with the oversized logo, the insecure upwardly mobile and wannabe.
Embarrassing all round.

 

[azure5]

Ok - here goes …. I don’t get the hype with the toiletry bags. Yes, for makeup it seems like a great option. But to convert it to a crossbody? (Sorry Diana) I don’t like the zipper tail and flat look. I feel a better option for a conversion is the large kirigami. So much more stylish in my opinion.

Diana was on a yacht and that bag was no doubt carrying her sunscreen.
Forgiven.

 

[azure5]

That's why I go with vintage and choose styles that are classic yet not seen everywhere. I haven't had a problem yet. Like my last LV I bought several weeks ago -- it's a 2001 Sarria Horizontal in excellent condition. Best part is, it was $660!

Nice choice!
Plus the handles look roomier than the Alma. Could fit over the shoulder.

 

[azure5]

I don’t get the obsession with the toiletry pouches.

People who can't afford bigger LV pieces buy these and customise them as bags.
I can understand the mentality, but LV have retaliated by making these lines almost impossible to obtain. Very sad for those trying to replace missing/stolen items.
LV are in a real transition. Now making monogram and damier bags really scarce also.
It's a brutal approach to what so far has been their amazing success.
Now they just want more more MORE $.

 

[Sunshine mama]

It's the youth market.
And definitely with the oversized logo, the insecure upwardly mobile and wannabe.
Embarrassing all round.

I succumbed to the By The Pool giant LV bags even though I personally don't like the giant LV logos for me. I just couldn't pass the the pink and yellow colors used, which are my favorite color combinations. I just couldn't say no to the colors nor the Papillon BB style.
I still don't like the giant LVs though, especially in graphic colors where the giant LV is especially accentuated.
Still, I don't hate it when others carry their giant LVs and enjoy them. If they want to be upwardly mobile, then so be it.
Even the top 1% rich want to be upwardly mobile to be at the top .01%, and the .01% want to become .001%.

 

[azure5]

You don't like the banana BB? There are six different food ornaments to choose from! I agree that it is a pretty odd one:

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They were copying Prada. And Prada does it better.

 

[Sunshine mama]

I don’t get the obsession with the toiletry pouches.

I didn't understand it either until I bought mine due to FOMO. I haven't used mine yet at all, but I can see why people would like it as a bag.
1. It's squishy yet structured
2. It's ultra lightweight
3. It's almost waterproof
4. It fits a ton when it's a bigger model
5. The interior is wipeable.
What other model does LV make that have all these pros?

 

[azure5]

unpopular opinion - I think micro bags are really cute but I don't get how people function when their bag can't hold their phone.

Easy! They never get off their phones...

 

[azure5]

I think unboxing videos are stupid, period. Who wants to watch someone or something they really want but don’t have or can’t get? I can torture myself in so many other productive ways. Plus, some of these videos are ridiculously long! How long does it take you to open a dang box, lady? Even if I wanted to see what the item looks like and her initial impression, do I really give a crap about how thick the ribbon is or what the dust bag feels like? I’m not wearing the packaging on my arm!

Waste of my limited time....

Totally!!!
Plus they drag the inane out, talking about nothing, repeating themselves in a slightly different way, and acting all cute and unthreatening in a don't hate on me style...annoying!

 

[azure5]

Yup especially epi leather. The resell value is shocking for epi!

But in fairness the canvas is much lighter than the epi.
It's simply practical. Which is how LV started.

 

[azure5]

Because it's hard to find THE perfect bag!

I guess the unpopular opinion for me in this thread is that I LOVE to add doodads, punch holes, cut the leather, buy cheap straps from Amazon, etc, so that I could have a creative outlet with my bags! And that makes me happy. I guess I am a rebel.
It doesn't matter if the bag is $100.00 or $1000.00. If I want to change something, I will do it. Life is too short. Just my opinion.

Once, an SA at Chanel told me that Chanel would have rolled over in her grave if she saw my vintage Chanel bag.
I said I don't care cuz I love my doodads on my bag, and I can do whatever I want with a bag I purchased with my own money! LOL!!
But she did like what I did to it!

Yes I'm about to alter some Morabito canvas bags that are the real thing.
They are museum items to some. (Look it up)
But I'm going to desecrate them with fluoro paint.
If I don't do this they're just brown bags from an obscure source.

 

[Sunshine mama]

Yes I'm about to alter some Morabito canvas bags that are the real thing.
They are museum items to some. (Look it up)
But I'm going to desecrate them with fluoro paint.
If I don't do this they're just brown bags from an obscure source.

It's a good thing you're going to take it out of the museum and give it life!
My vintage Papillon is not museum worthy, but my DD is going to paint it like the watercolor Papillon. I can't wait until she desecrates it with pinks and yellows!!!