Is Gucci Stylish or Tacky? Yes-2
The salesclerks wear
head-to-toe logo tracksuits
($2,300 for the jacket,
$1,500 for the pants) at
the new Gucci store on
Wooster Street, a cultish cadre of caterers and
nodders with the patience
of saints gamely explaining
the differences between
the embroidered sneakers
and showing couples in worn-in flip-flops 20 or 30
yowza-wowza sunglass
options. Here — at the rowdiest,
most alluring and zeitgeist-
specific new store to arrive
in SoHo in years — the tug
of war over what it means
to create, or purchase, a luxury item is at full power. Over the last few years,
the idea of luxury has
grown enough to include
the stylish and unstylish,
the well-to-do and the
aspiring, the sincere and the ironic, the real and the
fake. It is not an exclusive
preserve. It is a reference
point, an idea that's
malleable.Source:New York Times
head-to-toe logo tracksuits
($2,300 for the jacket,
$1,500 for the pants) at
the new Gucci store on
Wooster Street, a cultish cadre of caterers and
nodders with the patience
of saints gamely explaining
the differences between
the embroidered sneakers
and showing couples in worn-in flip-flops 20 or 30
yowza-wowza sunglass
options. Here — at the rowdiest,
most alluring and zeitgeist-
specific new store to arrive
in SoHo in years — the tug
of war over what it means
to create, or purchase, a luxury item is at full power. Over the last few years,
the idea of luxury has
grown enough to include
the stylish and unstylish,
the well-to-do and the
aspiring, the sincere and the ironic, the real and the
fake. It is not an exclusive
preserve. It is a reference
point, an idea that's
malleable.Source:New York Times
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