Thursday, 14 November 2024
Nicked Bags
Burglars steal £500,000 of luxury items from Belgravia boutique in just four minutes
Three masked men stole £500,000 worth of designer clothes and handbags from an upmarket Belgravia store in under four minutes.
CCTV footage shows the trio, who arrived on a motorcycle and e-bike, smashing through the front window of Sellier with concrete, before one enters in a crash helmet.
Sellier said among the haul is six luxury bags worth around £40,000 - four from Chanel, a Hermes Kelly 35 and a Hermes Birkin.
I was thinking about this the other day, how the idea of luxury goods has changed in an age of prosperity and mass production. My slippers are very comfortable and durable, so it isn't easy to see how they could be improved to the dizzy heights of luxury slippers worth stealing.
To take this mystery a little further, Mrs H and I are sitting here in comfort and warmth while I'm typing this before going to make a luxury cup of tea. Maybe I'll even include a luxury biscuit from Tesco which recently delivered our groceries to the door - luxury shopping we might call it.
I don't know what a Hermes Kelly 35 might be but presumably it's a bag which holds a huge amount of stuff - far more than a boring cheap bag from M&S. Possibly not a good guess, but there must be some reason why it's so expensive.
Maybe that's why the Labour government wants us to be much poorer, so there is a more solid reason for elites not being poor. Does Keir Starmer secretly covet a Hermes Kelly 35? I hope not.
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I'm reading this post wearing my very comfy Poundland £6 luxury joggers.
Anon - only £6? I've been done, mine cost £12.
Its precisely because we can all live in luxury (as defined by how our forebears would have considered it) that those with extreme wealth need things to show off how wealthy they are. After all we can all afford extremely good food. Waitrose do a roaring trade, as do farmers markets etc. Consumer goods are no better for spending double the money. An iPhone does the same things a cheaper Android phone does, and even those on benefits have iPhones. A £25 brick phone still makes calls, sends texts, takes pictures. Having a billion pounds doesn't get you a mobile phone network just for billionaires, you have to slum it on the same one the council house dweller uses. Pretty much all cars are warm dry and reliable, regardless of however much you spend buying them. Having pot loads of money doesn't get you more TV channels or faster internet. So the only thing real wealth can buy you nowadays is a) the absence of other (poorer) people, and b) ludicrous ostentatious displays of spending that often have less practical use than their dirt cheap alternatives. Many seriously rich people are quite happy with (a) and see no need for anything else, these are the wealthy we never really see, because they look like us. Only those who are somewhat insecure in their wealth need the public displays of (b).
Sobers - we also see it much further down the scale where supposedly upmarket brands put very obvious branding on their garments so nobody can possibly miss BOSS or Tommy Hilfiger.
Car makers do it with little bits of branding to indicate that the model is the expensive version with the big engine and two or even four exhaust pipes. The upper end of the car market has become crazy though, with cars that are much less practical than a Hyundai runabout.
Maybe the bag has an anti-gravity generator which lightens the load ... as well as one's pocket.
decnine - set the anti-gravity generator incorrectly and bag plus Primark contents are whisked into the sky.
"A £25 brick phone still makes calls, sends texts, takes pictures." Mine doesn't take photos and I've only ever sent one text on it. The only text I've ever sent. It consisted of the letter Y. However I know I'm being given a fondleslab for Christmas. Third Hand of course.
dearieme - I have an iPhone which I don't really like and the battery life is unimpressive, but it's a good way to keep in touch with the family by sending photos, internet links and so on. The bank app works well too.
My friend the antique dealer, told me today that a woman he knew was about to sell some outdoor cloisonne panther statues when overnight, they were stolen. Worth about £8,000.
Now, guess the likely and unlikely outcomes,
1) Did she ever see them again?
2) Who was responsible for the thefts?
You can exert at least a little of the 'assumptions' that got the Southport rioters in such trouble with the Government.
Tammly - yes I'm sure I can guess both of those.
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