If you love fashion, then you must have surely dreamt of buying a Birkin or a Kelly bag from Hermes. For the uninitiated, the luxurious bags - a symbol of rarefied wealth - from the French luxury design house are often seen on celebrities like the Kardashians, Nita Ambani, Isha Ambani , Radhika Merchant, Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, and others. They are often hard to purchase, with the prices starting at four figures at retail and fetching upwards of six figures at auctions.
In an interview with 60 Minutes , Hermès artistic director and sixth-generation descendant Pierre-Alexis Dumas addressed why Hermes products are costly (not expensive) and the reason behind their ‘exclusivity’. ‘It’s not expensive, it’s costly’ During the interview, Dumas claimed the brand’s products are “not expensive” and explained the reason being their craftsmanship. “I always heard that Hermès is very costly.
It’s not expensive, it’s costly.” “The cost is the actual price of making an object properly with the required level of attention so that you have an object of quality. Expensive is a product which is not delivering what it’s supposed to deliver, but you’ve paid quite a large amount of money for it, and then it betrays you—that’s expensive,” he said.
How did the internet react? However, people found it hard to believe that the product, which is a status symbol for many and carried by so many stars, could be expensive and exclusive because of the craf.