Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Crunchless clothing

Haute couture - posh, overpriced (£200,000 for a dress) clothes to you and me - is booming.
“The demand for very high-end products continues to be very strong. Very rich people are not suffering from the crisis and workshops have been very busy”
Well, there's a surprise.

5 comments:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

£200,000 for a dress - overpriced? Nah... it is... aw what the heck...

Tamburlaine the Great said...

We'll get 'em - we know quite a few of the names, and we can get the addresses if we try...

And did you see that Dick Fuld of Lehman's has sold his $14m house to his wife for $100? And they told us where it was (Jupiter Island, Florida) and showed us a picture - surely the noble art of arson is not dead? And there are others closer to home...

Anton Deque said...

I only shop at Scope for my clothes, dear.

Will said...

We need to take a leaf out of the French book.

Guillotine.

Anonymous said...

There are worse ways of getting back some of the money that Russian oligarchs and Chinese billionaires have accumulated.