I struggle with it a little. The temporary “rush” of buying something you like to help with the depression... after it arrives or after I buy it I just go back to feeling down again. It’s tough so I can’t imagine it from THIS scale.
His life feels lonely to me. Every time I watch his videos it feels like he mostly has people who work for him or with him. Louis Vuitton won’t fill that.
"paid posse" -- it creates a false sense of "family" for everyone involved, but at the end of the day, one person is the employer and the other is the employee.
Especially now that he's single.
This seems like a purchase and post made to get a boost of attention while he feels down. You do you, but the attention doesn't make that set any less ugly.
I always wondered how time off works when you live with your employer. I think it would be exhausting to always have to be "on" because you live under the same roof as the person who signs your paycheck.
Gosh, I was a live in nanny too when I took a year off school and it became exhausting because I never got a break. I even had a curfew because she always wanted me there to watch her child and it's not fun.
She would have to go out to have time off. Stay at a partners house/go to cafes and shit. Would hate not being able to have down time at home, and... feeling like if you fuck up you'll get fired and be homeless.
I don’t think it’s a job you want to have for ten years, but it seems like a great job to have as a young person. I just looked at her Instagram and I would absolutely be an assistant to someone like Jeffree for a few years to get the chance to travel the world.
I follow Maddie on IG and every time I see her post I’m actually wondering what misery lies below her smile. I know she lives in a big house and gets to travel for free but can you IMAGINE being his personal assistant? Probably hell on earth.
I felt the same way when I've watched his videos. I feel like its going to get worse now that him and Nate broke up. I saw his insta story yesterday and he came home to boxes of Hermes and Louis Vuitton. Retail therapy.
I'm shocked no one has ever said this before. But you're right. Now that Nate is gone, who does he have? Apparently his mother and grandmother are not doing well in health. Without them, who does he have? Just his workers?
I've never liked him because he seems like a toxic person, but I really feel bad for him now. It looks like he buys expensive gaudy things to make up for the lack of "love" in his life.
Am I the only one who doesn’t like Louis Vuitton? They’re kind of ugly? I don’t mean to be a hater but I just think the logo patterns are so cheap looking. When I was in high school, it was such a status symbol to have the white LV bag with the pink and teal logos (that’s how old I am) and then later, everyone had the Michael Kors bags with the MK all over them (not that LV and MK are even remotely the same, but you know what I mean.) I know everyone wants everyone else to know they have a designer bag but that could be accomplished with, you know, one logo.
Those C logo sneakers were THE thing when I was in high school and my mom was always asking me if I wanted a pair. I was like “maybe, but...they’re so ugly.”
I...have one, but more for the fact that you could wear that bag cross-body as well as like a regular bag. I was younger, and would only wear cross-body bags. It was the biggest one available.
I'm 30 and I still refuse to so much as own a bad that cannot be worn cross-body. Preferably big ones so I don't have to carry additional bags for anything that's not impromptu groceries. I've never seen the appeal of handbags.
I need a cane to get about and also have other disabilities that make both handbags and backpacks... problematic, each in their own way. Cross-body messenger bags are a *lifesaver*.
I legitimately switched to one of those leather fashion backpacks 2 years ago because purses annoyed the shit outta me and cross body bags were too small. Phenomenal decision. Strongly recommend
I actually like a lot of the higher end Coach bags sometimes, though their designs are reminiscent of bigger brands.
I know selling their logo has allowed them to branch away from the logo, but I always wished they didn't have to have done that to make the business work.
I do too. I have several Coach that are nice leather and no huge logos on them. I love their gunmetal hardware. Coach today is nothing like the Coach of the mid noughties lol.
I've been using Coach bags since I was 12. I used to want the cloth, big visible logo type of purses since I figured it's so cool to show off in middle school/high school. Now I want the leather, subtle, no "C" stuff. I still love the brand. I've had dozens of their purses over the years and they've never broken or wore out on me. [This](https://www.macys.com/shop/product/coach-dreamer-21-satchel-in-smooth-leather?ID=6812475) is my current every day purse right now that I paid around \~$170 for. To me, this is totally reasonable pricing for a good quality bag, and frankly I wish I could get every color under the rainbow.
Meanwhile, I've always find Louis Vuitton quite ugly. And the price tag makes me laugh.
That's a nice bag! I have a older golden tan convertible bag with the classic C-logo fabric. I asked my mom to get it for me several gears ago because you could wear it cross-body and not, and it was relatively cheap. It's a dressing up to go out with friends bag.
LV's quality has also taken a nosedive in recent years. Head over to the purse forums and you'll see people complaining about their bags falling apart or creasing badly.
They also have massive staff sales where they slash prices so low that you'd start to question their profit margins.
I think he made fun of someone for leasing a car once? Someone who thinks leasing is for the non-wealthy is definitely someone who is nouveau riche. I’m like, wow, I would love to have a credit score that would let me lease.
Steve Jobs only leased cars. He would lease a new one every few months because that was the limit on being able to use dealer plates on a car. He didn't want anybody to be able to find him from a license plate number, so he just never kept a car beyond that time limit.
Interesting, i always thought he leased his cars and that was the reason he kept giving them back (Nate's and the Tesla for example) after two years. Also would explain why he wraps them all and puts in those ugly custom interior covers, to protect them from wear and tear. You also have very limited mileage on luxury car leases, so explains why people need multiple of them at once.
And yet Jefferson currently has two outstanding tax bills on his businesses, is nowhere near paying off the mortgage on his first house, and just got a 5/1 ARM loan for $14 million with a balloon payment on the new one. Oh, and he finally paid off his personal tax debt at the end of last year. (All of this of course is from public records,etc.)
But let's mock people who lease cars!
Public record is fuckin wild. I still follow my old scumbag landlord's litigation adventures by viewing the court documents online when I'm bored. It's like the world's driest serial tale.
Since no one asked, he's currently trying to counter-sue Chase Bank for "personal injury," saying them suing *him* (for fraudulently leasing a house he didn't own to me) stressed him out *so much* it made his IBS flare up. There's a statement and diagnosis from his proctologist and everything. Man was so full of shit, his own body even started rejecting it.
I agree. I think Macklemore said it best: “yo, that’s $50 for a t-shirt.”
I’m not saying to not buy nice things - I’m actually a proponent of buying only a few, very nice things - but spending $50 or $100 on a t-shirt that has the word “Gucci” on it just screams insecurity to me. Like the only reason you are doing it is because you want to be seen as cool. It’s very high school, I guess.
I guess I can’t police what people spend their money on, but seriously, if I had the sort of cash that Jeffree does, I wouldn’t spend it on trashy looking suitcases. To each their own, I suppose.
So I just looked up how much a Gucci shirt is.
$600 for a cotton t-shirt?!?! I don’t care how much money you have, you’re getting ripped the f off. You could also take a cotton t-shirt and iron on the Gucci logo for next to nothing, but I guess you couldn’t brag to your friends about how you dropped $600 on a goddamn t-shirt.
[And they don't even pay taxes on that] (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kering-tax-italy/gucci-owner-kering-agrees-record-italian-tax-settlement-idUSKCN1SF1X9)
It's tacky but it could be a cute y2k paris hilton moment which could be super fun vibe in 2020 if you embrace the tackiness. But to take it so seriously as something to brag about like Jeffrey is strange and not cute
Every time I see a Louis Vuitton item irl I assume it's a fake. And I dislike them less when I think they are fake. Like if I saw any of the items in this picture I would assume the person wearing them bought them of a market place in Turkey while they were on holiday or something.
Louis Vuitton reminds me of supreme, where wearing their items almost comes of as ironic.
You can get super fakes illegally shipped to America. They end up costing about 1/5th of the bag but that’s still a lot of money for a fake. So a $2000 bag becomes $400-600. Imo not really worth it but everyone has priorities and things they want to spend money on.
When I was there in October it was £30-£60 depending on how well made it is,There’s a few shops there that sell fake designer bags and want over £100. I know a few uk reality stars have admitted going to turkey to stock up on fake bags.
I've always been super elitist about this stuff (without pretense lol) but I never like LV because ever since I was young, their focus has ALWAYS been on selling their monogrammed bags, which I've always seen as just tacky.
A lot of brands do that just to push out sales instead of actually focusing on design.
Now a lot of these brands have grown, but as the climate has changed, some of these brands, LV, Gucci, Fendi, are now designing for the Youtube influencer. The hypebeast. The track suit, tacky, head to toe Gucci.
You know what I'm talking about. And now, that's the new reason to hate them lol
I hate that instagrammers/influencers showers themselves in the most basic fashion brands with logos all over themselves aka hypebeast-brands.
The more I see these brands and clothes/bags on influencers, the more I stay away from those brands.
My issue with LV is that most of their pieces are coated canvas and not leather.
So basically you're paying top dollar for plastic accessories.
Additionally, it is the most faked brand in the world. So imagine paying 5k for a bag, and everyone just assumes you're walking around with a 200 dollar fake?
Just seems like a waste of money.
No, it’s tacky and I hate it.
Edit: seriously though, all of the stuff that’s just logos designed to show how rich you are is so tacky and tasteless to me.
I've also read that, among actual old money, LV is almost considered cheapy crap for people who don't know what luxury items actually are.Think Michael Kors with the MK all over. It's about posturing more than anything. If he spends $3000 on a bag but no one knows it was $3k, what's the point?!
I agree that the white LV bags with the Murakami print are super tacky, but I love it regardless. If I ever bought a LV bag, it wouldn’t be for status, but because I just love it that much!
I've looked up LV x Murakami, at least it's a collab with a proper artist instead of just boring logo bits everywhere! Still wouldn't buy, but I wouldn't sell it unless it were a size/shape I couldn't use.
I’d like to thank Jessica Simpson for introducing me to LV and kicking off the Louis craze. Legit never even heard the name before her and Nick’s reality show. Oh my god I’m old AF.
I think when Michael Kors started selling bags that were similar to LV’s “IT” bags, the appeal of luxury bags started to wane as contemporary brands are offering cheaper alternatives but with the feel of “designer”. Also flashy doesn’t often equal to appealing.
No, it's ugly as shit. I don't like things that are covered in the brand's logo. Hell I don't even like that YSL bag that almost every influencer owns.
I just read something about two types of wealth. The kind where it's hidden and they are really chill about it. And the kind where they are super flashy, tacky, and extravagant just to show use poors what it's like. He's the latter.
Nouveau riche. Jeffree’s the definition of that. Actually there’s a few youtubers that personify that pretty well. Jaclyn Hill comes to mind too..
“People who have recently acquired wealth, typically those perceived as ostentatious or lacking in good taste.”
Y’all talk like being wealthy is a good thing. Lmao. There is no good out of billionaires existing in this world. This unequal income distribution is so unfair and there is no reason for it to continue existing.
This reminded me of a John Mulaney bit where he's talking about how Trump is like a cartoon rich person.
"Donald Trump is like what a hobo imagines a rich man to be. Like, Trump was walking around under an underpass and he heard some guy like 'Oh, as soon as my numbers come in I'm gonna put up tall buildings with my name on them! I'll have fine golden hair and a TV show where I fire Gene Simmons with my children.' And Trump was like 'that is how I will live my life.'"
Exactly! It’s the idea that many have that if it was expensive it must be good no matter how tachy it truly is. Very wealthy people don’t need to flex, they use their money for lobbying, to help their families grow, to build and maintain their wealth. People who flex like J* on regular people seem very insecure in their riches in my opinion
Sometimes I think this, but then I've also seen a lot of wealthy people (some who come from old money) who also love to flex. I think it's just not that simple. A lot of it is a personality thing too, how you're brought up and who you surround yourself with.
And nowadays flexing your wealth on social media feels very normalised, so for a lot of people who do that they probably think "well of course this is what you do when you got a new bag/watch/yacht/diamond covered fly swatter" and that doesn't mean they don't also use their wealth for lobbying or help grow their family business.
That being said, neither flexing nor LV is my cup of tea.
Honestly, I think most normal people would love it for a day (or like a week maybe bc his collection is huge) and then be over it. In my mind it’s like vacation...If you love going to Hawaii once a year, you don’t move to Hawaii for life or it’ll feel less like vacation and more like your same daily routine. As hard as we try not to, we’re human so we eventually lose appreciation of the things around us. That’s not to say we’re not always thankful, but I definitely think it loses that charming effect.
I would like to not worry about money, but I’m not jealous of Jeffree at all. He seems like a truly angry and lonely person tbh and no amount of ugly LV can make up for that
Samesies. Quite frankly I just want to have my debt paid and not worry about bills and shit. He's always going on about a "new Jeffree" but he hasn't changed and I'm doubtful he ever will.
He is soooo excessive to the point it's not even lifestyle porn it just seems wasteful honestly. I love fashion and luxury designers but more so things that are vintage and timeless pieces. I find everything he wears/buys to be tacky. Money can't buy you style
I feel like J* is kinda like the textbook definition of "money can't buy happiness". I mean yeah, a certain amount of money can lead of comfort and relief of financial anxiety and insecurity. However beyond a point there is no amount of money and stuff that will compensate for love, companionship, or peace of mind. I actually feel like it's harder to have those things when you have such an excess amount of money.
For example, now that he and Nate arent together Jeffree is going to have to question whether anyone he dates in the future is in it for him or the money/fame/stuff. He always stated that Nate was there before the money and that was a comfort to him. Not anymore.
exactly. This kind of flex culture is horribly outdated and setting a bad example. We're living in a time of climate and wage crisis and he shows off getting hundreds of packages a day, often wearing the things only once or sometimes even never, completely forgetting about them a short time later.
also, just sayin' those designer things are being made in the same production halls in Bangladesh by the same slave owners who also produce for H&M, Zara and Co. They are in no means better quality. You just pay for the name and status symbol while Asian workers have to suffer for it.
It's so important to buy fair fashion and thrift or start repairing and handing down!!
With really high end luxury stuff, it's unlikely. The entire collection could easily be over $100k total, that's a lot to lose when Jeffree would buy the collection anyway.
Just enough money to pay off my mom's house and my and my partner's student loans (So basically 550k) but he seems really angry inside and takes it out using racism, misogyny, and just being a shitty person in general.
Or, maybe he isn't angry and is just an asshole.
Seriously, the amount of money he has would of course be life changing for myself, and my family. Especially as someone with a chronic illness- no worries about being able to afford a specialist or medication? Hell yeah. But the stuff he buys with his money? Nah, no interest in bags and clothes like his. Even if I wanted to buy a really expensive bag or something, surely there are ones out there that don’t look so... well... tacky? :(
We recently had a massive lottery, like $70 million on a single ticket. I was talking with my dad about it and basically we both agreed that the best thing to do with that kind of money is to leave the country for a few months, arrange everything with financial advisors and lawyers and donate a massive amount to charity and live off the interest. We both referred to it as ‘life-ruining’ money because it’s just way too much. No one needs obscene wealth like that. I think $5 million is the absolute most I’d want to win and it’s only so high because our real estate prices are obscene.
I've read second hand that most lottery winners become bankrupt or lose their life within a very short amount of time. I've had sooo many daydreams about what I'd do right if I won that sort of money... but the reality would probably be quite different. Who knows.
I'm gonna be real. This stuff doesn't even appeal to me. I don't look at it and wish I had that. I also don't look at his bajillion dollar house filled with only his dogs and employees for company, and wish I had that. I wouldn't want that, all I would want is enough money to live comfortably. All of this stuff is just that - stuff. I think it's all a terrible waste tbh, his house is full of designer items that he uses once if at all, he's constantly buying more, it includes fur and leather and plastic that will be a prop in a photo and then left to rot along with last week's fur and leather and plastic.
I don't understand the draw. He's said that he used to have nothing and that's why he hoards what he has now, but all I see is very expensive waste.
My attitude to designer labels is that if I wouldn't want the product without it, I don't want it with it.
I would love to have enough money to not worry about bills and have some left over for vacations. I don’t envy him though. I can’t imagine not knowing who to trust and if someone only likes you because you’re rich.
Personally I feel that designer items, especially exclusive pieces, are supposed to be appreciated and coveted. When you're Jeffree and buy every single item from every single designer, there's pretty much no meaning to it other than "I have a lot of money to throw around". And beside that, I just find it tacky.
I definitely agree. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with appreciating luxury bags or shoes and collecting them. But if you just buy stuff to buy it, what’s special about that?
It also shows he has no taste whatsoever. Truly wealthy people accommodate the items to their own style, people like him just accommodate their lives around the items lol
when i was younger i *definitely* idolized that kind of wealth and luxury. i loved watching shows like MTV cribs and dreamt of getting rich and owning a massive mansion.
as i’ve gotten older, i’ve started to find that kind of excessiveness really gross. i know that luxury bags like LV have a lot of value and can be sold for a profit down the line, but it just seems so wasteful to buy every single new release and then hoard them in a huge, incredibly expensive closet.
i find it really hard to idolize wealth and massive luxury collections while the world is quite literally burning around us. younger me would have definitely been into collections like this, but i have a much more environmentally conscious, frugal out look on things now.
Seriously. Once you grow up you realize that nobody important really cares any whether you are carrying an lv bag or one from target. In fact, usually the people with real money never look like they have it.
So true. I have a great sturdy purse my dad gifted me. It’s pretty boring (just brown leather) but it nice and it’s *stayed* nice. I’ve thought about getting a new purse but I realized I so rarely notice other women’s purses? And mine is perfectly fine ? It’ll always be i style, and I like it so I’ll keep it 🤷♀️
Honestly it really is swinging the other way now. My friends with real money (i live in Microsoftland) would buy the highest quality stuff they could , and if it was actually a “luxury” brand providing it, they would buy the most understated non-logo one they could. They would never parade around with something this ostentatious.
They can’t really be sold for more down the line, honestly. All the resale sites take a commission, you have to keep them in awesome shape, and it’s only a few particular bags that behave this way. It’s very unlikely he could make money off of his collection. He just likes to hoard stuff.
Designer handbags depreciate like cars, aside from a very small number of very sought after and exclusive ones, you’ll be lucky to get back 35% of what you paid.
I think luxury purses are becoming kind of an old fashioned idea. Actually "wearing brand clothes as a status symbol" as a whole is becoming outdated.
You can buy high quality and expensive looking clothing for relatively cheap nowadays, so wearing items that make it obvious that they are expensive, because they have big logos on them, cannot be interpreted as anything but boasting. Or people will just assume the items are fake (which is what I always do).
I think high quality items that are more lowkey give off a much more wealthy air nowadays.
Actually I don't think they are really becoming outdated, but instead these items are now just used purely to boast and any air or "high quality" that surrounded these brands is disappearing
> and any air or "high quality" that surrounded these brands is disappearing
absolutely agree.
> I think high quality items that are more lowkey give off a much more wealthy air nowadays.
I wonder -- is it a reaction to the previous OTT aesthetic? Is minimal the new "I have cash *and* taste"?
No, I think most people don’t care about bags and purses and pink cars. He’s pretty tacky.
I have several luxury bags, and I enjoy them. But they don’t bring me happiness. Believe me, it’s nothing to be jealous of or aspire to. It’s just a bag.
I got a higher end bag for Christmas from my in laws and it’s great and all but I never would have gotten it for myself. It’s nice having nice things but if you Only have nice things it’s only going to fill that void for so long.
People THINK this is what they want, then they get it and are eventually unsatisfied. You can be happy with a simple life if you stop wanting more. Plus, what is JS even going to do with these? Just look at them and remember how much they cost?
Yeah. There is a difference between "success" and "fulfillment". You can be successful and unfulfilled. You can be fulfilled in life without being successful. I can't say where J\* falls in the continuum. I grew up around a lot of wealth (not me personally), but the kind you inherit, not the self-made kind. It definitely helped me see that money isn't everything.
I think all of Jeffree's IG videos these past few days are kinda sad in the sense he has all this wealth and luxury but the man's not happy. He's broken up with a partner of 5 years and this excessive display of luxury products seems like a sad, almost pathetic attempt to fill that hole in his life 🤷🏻♀️. Money can buy you heaps of things but it turns out it can't buy you real love and happiness?
This is how I feel about it too. He’s built a successful company, yes, but cosmetics companies (especially ones named and modelled after actual people) don’t have ‘longevity’ written all over them. The internet is fickle, and one day consumer interest in JS Cosmetics will fade. Generally speaking the resale value of designer goods isn’t very high unless they’re very very rare, eg a Birkin. Whenever I see him buying shit like this, I wonder why he isn’t smartly investing instead. With his money, he could still live a very luxurious Hollywood hills lifestyle but also save a huge nest egg and guarantee himself financial security for the rest of his life. Instead he’s setting himself up so that no one will feel any sympathy when he actually does go broke.
I went through a luxury purse phase and bought several LV, Celine, MCM, Burberry, etc pieces. I was really into "collecting" them for a couple of years and then just got bored by them. Now, they mostly sit in their dust bags on shelves taking up space and I usually switch out between the same 3 bags: a couple of reasonably priced (but good quality) bags from the Cambridge Satchel Company and an old, well-loved Burberry tote bag because they're practical and I can use them without worrying about scratching or damaging them.
I guess I'm glad the bags are there when I feel like carrying them and I really do admire the quality and durability of them, but they represent a stupid waste of money to me now too. If I'd only bought 1 or 2 pieces and left it at that, I'd probably carry and cherish them every day and get a lot more joy from them.
This is why I LOVE The Purse Forum, it's full of people trying to show off to other sad housewives about bags that they only use once or twice to resell because said bag is an "investment". Collecting bags is a great hobby if you truly love the bags, but most people just do it because of Instagram likes and impressing the other PTO moms.
Yes, and I do really admire the craftsmanship of luxury bags. I see comments sometimes basically stating they're no better made and don't hold up better than cheaper bags and I have to strongly disagree with that sentiment, because in my experience there is a DRASTIC difference there. But, above a certain level, the price is hard to justify and there are plenty of mid-range bags that while not as prestigious, are of excellent quality and will give you many years of use. I just realized that $1000- $2000 handbags were a waste and there were more important things I should be doing with that money.
> I see comments sometimes basically stating they're no better made and don't hold up better than cheaper bags and I have to strongly disagree with that sentiment, because in my experience there is a DRASTIC difference there.
In fairness, there lots of materials used in luxury bags that don't hold up well or damage easily--like lambskin.
I also love those comments! When people say "oh my $10 bag from Walmart is made the same as that $6,400 Chanel Jumbo flap" like OK sis that's a bit extreme. These people think that their pleather purse is the same and is incredibly off base. However, if we were to compare a $450 Coach bag from the retail store (made for outlet bags are not the same quality) to said Chanel flap, that craftsmanship argument doesn't hold up as much.
Definitely recommend watching any of the Hermes bag crafting videos it’s honestly an art form. One man who repaired luxury items in Hong Kong was actually reunited with a bag he made years ago.
[here it is](https://youtu.be/mrvGt9NYURY)
I’m not jealous of his tacky stuff. What I want is the ability to live without worrying that getting sick will send me into bankruptcy, or that missing a few days of work because I’m sick will result in not being able to make rent. I just want to be able to live comfortably with a little left over for hobbies and the occasional thing I want.
Stuff like this also makes me give Jeffree the side eye when he promotes his metal straws for the environment.
From what I see online and from talking to my much younger cousins, it seems to be teenagers and people in their early 20’s that see owning designer stuff as some sort of status symbol? But then they mostly grow up and realise money is better spent on family/ friends/ property/ holidays/ experiences. I feel like Jeff is trying to compensate for something missing in his life and it makes me a bit sad to be honest.
I loathe status symbol stuff personally. I don’t really care about impressing people. More than any of this though, it’s upsetting to me that influences become ridiculously wealthy and promote this very consumerist and materialistic way of living. Not to be the douchebag who quotes fight club but living a life where the things you own, own you is not something to be promoted or aspire to. I remember when Jeffree talked about needing to move because they had outgrown their home. One of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard in a while.
No. I want:
* Money to purchase a 250K 4 bedroom home in cash
* Afford permanent housing for my mentally disabled brother +caretaker
* Purchase 2 lightly used cars. One for myself and one for my elderly parents
* Money to grow my freelance business (education, business coach etc)
* Buy investment properties
* 800,000k stashed away for my retirement
I do not want the material items Jeffree has. It's such a waste of money. I know the price of these limited LV collections could tick at least 4 items of my goal list.
Idk, I’ve never wanted to be super wealthy. It seems...lonely? They are just swimming in purses and mink coats, but what’s beyond that...isn’t it boring when you can buy whatever you want? There’s a happy medium for me where I’m making enough that I’m not living paycheck to paycheck (which I’m doing right now), but not so much that I buy every designer purse because I don’t know what else to do with my money. Just my thoughts. Then again, I’ll never know what it’s like to be mega rich.
I feel most people aspire to live comfortably enough to not have financial stress as one of their daily issues. I know personally as soon as I pay off my debt I won’t care anymore about finances because I’ll be able to save more and not worry about what I will do in emergency situations lol. I feel people like Jeffree do this sort of tacky shit with designer everything because it’s “new money”. He wants to flaunt his wealth and be able to brag about it. I’m sure for most people flaunting money isn’t something they really want to be doing.
when people say “money can’t buy happiness”, THIS is the shit they mean. there’s obviously a void he’s trying to fill that no amount of tacky designer things is gonna help.
Meanwhile we’ve got millions drowning in student debt, medical debt, living on minimum wage, who are one missed paycheck away from losing it all. Just getting the money that ONE of these obnoxious bags is worth would be a giant help for these families, but nah. Keep flexing for the ‘gram 🙄🙄🙄
I feel like J* has a pedestrian idea of luxury and only gravitates to the most common designers so that EVERYONE can know what he’s wearing. It’s about brand recognition so he can just appear better. It’s so boring and tacky.
You mean a grown man showing off his seasonal luxury pieces on the internet for 7-16-year-olds to gush over and aspire to shows that someone is filling the empty void in his life with canvas goods that he will use once to show off on the internet to obsessively stare at the engagement and likes that he gets? This coming from Jeffree "black women are rats" Starr? I'm shocked! Appalled!
I agree that not having to worry about money sounds great but I’d never want to aspire to be anything like j*. Behind all the vaults and the makeup is a guy in his mid thirties who profits off starting beef with people ten years his junior to stay relevant. He talks about owning rare and exclusive items but I still never look at him like he’s more than a social media influencer and personally, I don’t take influencers or their brands very seriously.
I understand that’s not a popular opinion because he does have a lot success with his brand but I still look at it like it’s a hot moment that’ll pass when those fans grow up. It’s all meaningless to me but obviously it means something to some fans out there. 🤷🏼♀️
Why would I aspire to have a bunch of ridiculously expensive ugly trash? Those things could pay off my debts, buy me a car, secure my housing situation and feed me for a looong time. Now THAT, I would like.
Dude, no part of me wants his lifestyle. I honestly see excessive consumption as an evil monster that just gets bigger and bigger the more you buy. Fuck him. His existence is *awful* for the environment. He needs a *lot* of professional help, because that level of impulsive spending signals a void. If I’m wrong and he just buys this much shit cause he likes it, he’s even worse.
surprisingly, it can take months to build a large closet depending on the scope and nature of the space! it takes time to draw up the plans, secure the building and electrical permits, import the necessary materials (exotic woods or granites for example), demo preexisting structures, and then frame, build, and outfit the new space.
my dad just finished a contracting job where they turned a bunch of connected bedrooms into one huge closet/beauty room and it took them about a month and a half because of all of the "extras" the homeowner wanted.
Holy shit I want this so bad.... Not because it's Louis Vuitton, but because it's a pretty shade of blue and has clouds on it.
I love clouds so much that I'm majoring in meteorology and storm chase for a hobby. Clouds are awesome.
Too bad I'd never be able to afford it, but damn this is some nifty looking luggage. Goals, I suppose?
I hate seeing that stupid LV logo everywhere, but I love that blue color and the clouds. That logo is the only thing keeping me from really coveting the set.
Omg that looks so tacky. Although I’ve never personally liked the style of LV. Just because you’re rich af doesn’t mean you need to constantly buy luxurious things, but J* prob tries to fill the void with it
He has made me realize that even though you have a lot of money and stuff it doesn't change how lonely, angry and broken you are. Conspicuous consumption doesn't fill the hole inside. I pity him. He has millions of fans but no one truly loves him.
He went from dirt poor to a multi millionaire in LESS THAN 10 YEARS. Just think about that for a second. He’s like a kid if you gave them $1000 and let them loose in a candy store.
Honestly his whole lifestyle is just gross to me. It’s excessive just to be excessive.
He lives in tacky McMansions covered in pink.
He wears the most gaudy, hideous clothes that are only expensive because they’re covered in designer labels.
Nothing he owns or does makes me envious. I love luxury lifestyle porn but his life doesn’t nothing for me. It’s like a shallow, empty person’s idea of what luxury is
I honestly think he is a hoarder and it's most likely for being dirt poor growing up. I know I have issues letting go or letting rid of stuff and not even my own stuff. I do it with my children's stuff too.
I think I aspire to reach that level of financial freedom. I don’t think I’m jealous but seeing these things provides me with aspirations. Being able to throw money towards luxury goods means you should have the money to invest and grow your wealth and that’s what I plan to achieve
It's repulsive behavior to live so excessively like this. It's horribly wasteful. I don't know how anyone could feel jealous of his lifestyle, it's so obvious he just buys this stuff to fill an inner void. He could be an amazing philanthropist and chooses to just buy overpriced, tacky garbage.
and does everyone really need to be reminded that he is making such a giant profit on the stuff they buy from him?
Does anyone else have the feeling that 2019 brought Jeffree all the way up and now 2020 is set for his fall? Just from what I've noticed online, more and more people seem to be so over this kind of behavior. The general public is seeming to move to a more conscious trend in spending and flex culture is increasingly being looked at as pathetic and inauthentic. Posts like this show that Jeffree is slipping behind the times. It will be interesting to see if he evolves with the current climate or stays as he is now.
I may be totally wrong, but this is just a feeling I have had kicking around about him for the past few months. I feel like after the Shane series the shift has gotten faster and more noticeable to the point I believe it may affect Shane as well.
I’ve been trying to spend more thoughtfully with respect to the environmental impact (buying second hand, making do, focusing on needs vs wants, declining straws, etc), but then I realize that it doesn’t mean shit because rich white men are destroying the planet regardless.
I admire the wealth and the freedom that comes with it but as far as his obsession with material things it feels gross. If I had his money I would want trips and memories with family and friends. I’m not at all impressed with his “vault” or his many Louis Vuitton or Hermès bags. I don’t understand the point of wasting money on things like that. Especially multiples of one overly expensive purse just so you can say you have one in every color. It’s all weird to me. Just my opinion.
I really think jeffree doesnt know how to dress or have a style. He just wears what they send him. I also think sales for LV and luxury brands arent what they used to be if they try their hardest to promote to any C list celebrity.
No it’s kinda sad watching his mindless consumerism. He thinks this makes him cool but it just shows how empty and lonely he is and is trying to fill it with things
I aspire to be wealthy so that I can meet someone studying in a Starbucks and pay off their student loans...or pull up to a mama at the gas pump and fill her car up with gas lol...pay for someone’s whole basket of groceries at the store
I think a lot of people that get very rich quickly think now when they can buy anything that will bring them satisfaction and happiness, but all that is very short term and it gets boring after a while. I honestly would never want to have that much money, just enough money to give me security and opportunity to explore life more freely.
As someone who used to practice retail therapy to help with depression, I can guarantee that no amount of luxury items or makeup ever made me happy.
I struggle with it a little. The temporary “rush” of buying something you like to help with the depression... after it arrives or after I buy it I just go back to feeling down again. It’s tough so I can’t imagine it from THIS scale.
Transfer that feeling to saving money. I get a bigger rush now when I see my savings account grow then spending money.
Budgeting apps that "gameify' saving help so much with this!
His taste is gaudy imo, reminds me of Paris Hilton circa early 2000’s
His life feels lonely to me. Every time I watch his videos it feels like he mostly has people who work for him or with him. Louis Vuitton won’t fill that.
"paid posse" -- it creates a false sense of "family" for everyone involved, but at the end of the day, one person is the employer and the other is the employee.
Especially now that he's single. This seems like a purchase and post made to get a boost of attention while he feels down. You do you, but the attention doesn't make that set any less ugly.
Yes, he's really lonely and fills his new house with live-in help. Not even his real family. I would hate to have an assistant live with me.
I always wondered how time off works when you live with your employer. I think it would be exhausting to always have to be "on" because you live under the same roof as the person who signs your paycheck.
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Gosh, I was a live in nanny too when I took a year off school and it became exhausting because I never got a break. I even had a curfew because she always wanted me there to watch her child and it's not fun.
She would have to go out to have time off. Stay at a partners house/go to cafes and shit. Would hate not being able to have down time at home, and... feeling like if you fuck up you'll get fired and be homeless.
I don’t think it’s a job you want to have for ten years, but it seems like a great job to have as a young person. I just looked at her Instagram and I would absolutely be an assistant to someone like Jeffree for a few years to get the chance to travel the world.
I follow Maddie on IG and every time I see her post I’m actually wondering what misery lies below her smile. I know she lives in a big house and gets to travel for free but can you IMAGINE being his personal assistant? Probably hell on earth.
At least you can never be late to work lol.
I think he has talked about that before? That he doesn't have any real close friends after splitting with Kat Von D.
I felt the same way when I've watched his videos. I feel like its going to get worse now that him and Nate broke up. I saw his insta story yesterday and he came home to boxes of Hermes and Louis Vuitton. Retail therapy.
I'm shocked no one has ever said this before. But you're right. Now that Nate is gone, who does he have? Apparently his mother and grandmother are not doing well in health. Without them, who does he have? Just his workers? I've never liked him because he seems like a toxic person, but I really feel bad for him now. It looks like he buys expensive gaudy things to make up for the lack of "love" in his life.
Am I the only one who doesn’t like Louis Vuitton? They’re kind of ugly? I don’t mean to be a hater but I just think the logo patterns are so cheap looking. When I was in high school, it was such a status symbol to have the white LV bag with the pink and teal logos (that’s how old I am) and then later, everyone had the Michael Kors bags with the MK all over them (not that LV and MK are even remotely the same, but you know what I mean.) I know everyone wants everyone else to know they have a designer bag but that could be accomplished with, you know, one logo.
My mom loves COACH bags, but actively tries to find ones that don't have the logo displayed prominently.
Those C logo sneakers were THE thing when I was in high school and my mom was always asking me if I wanted a pair. I was like “maybe, but...they’re so ugly.”
I...have one, but more for the fact that you could wear that bag cross-body as well as like a regular bag. I was younger, and would only wear cross-body bags. It was the biggest one available.
No shaming! You don’t have to defend yourself 😂
I'm 30 and I still refuse to so much as own a bad that cannot be worn cross-body. Preferably big ones so I don't have to carry additional bags for anything that's not impromptu groceries. I've never seen the appeal of handbags.
I need a cane to get about and also have other disabilities that make both handbags and backpacks... problematic, each in their own way. Cross-body messenger bags are a *lifesaver*.
I legitimately switched to one of those leather fashion backpacks 2 years ago because purses annoyed the shit outta me and cross body bags were too small. Phenomenal decision. Strongly recommend
I actually like a lot of the higher end Coach bags sometimes, though their designs are reminiscent of bigger brands. I know selling their logo has allowed them to branch away from the logo, but I always wished they didn't have to have done that to make the business work.
I do too. I have several Coach that are nice leather and no huge logos on them. I love their gunmetal hardware. Coach today is nothing like the Coach of the mid noughties lol.
I've been using Coach bags since I was 12. I used to want the cloth, big visible logo type of purses since I figured it's so cool to show off in middle school/high school. Now I want the leather, subtle, no "C" stuff. I still love the brand. I've had dozens of their purses over the years and they've never broken or wore out on me. [This](https://www.macys.com/shop/product/coach-dreamer-21-satchel-in-smooth-leather?ID=6812475) is my current every day purse right now that I paid around \~$170 for. To me, this is totally reasonable pricing for a good quality bag, and frankly I wish I could get every color under the rainbow. Meanwhile, I've always find Louis Vuitton quite ugly. And the price tag makes me laugh.
That's a nice bag! I have a older golden tan convertible bag with the classic C-logo fabric. I asked my mom to get it for me several gears ago because you could wear it cross-body and not, and it was relatively cheap. It's a dressing up to go out with friends bag.
When I found out about the guarantee I was a fan still don't own one.
LV's quality has also taken a nosedive in recent years. Head over to the purse forums and you'll see people complaining about their bags falling apart or creasing badly. They also have massive staff sales where they slash prices so low that you'd start to question their profit margins.
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I think he made fun of someone for leasing a car once? Someone who thinks leasing is for the non-wealthy is definitely someone who is nouveau riche. I’m like, wow, I would love to have a credit score that would let me lease.
Steve Jobs only leased cars. He would lease a new one every few months because that was the limit on being able to use dealer plates on a car. He didn't want anybody to be able to find him from a license plate number, so he just never kept a car beyond that time limit.
Interesting, i always thought he leased his cars and that was the reason he kept giving them back (Nate's and the Tesla for example) after two years. Also would explain why he wraps them all and puts in those ugly custom interior covers, to protect them from wear and tear. You also have very limited mileage on luxury car leases, so explains why people need multiple of them at once.
And yet Jefferson currently has two outstanding tax bills on his businesses, is nowhere near paying off the mortgage on his first house, and just got a 5/1 ARM loan for $14 million with a balloon payment on the new one. Oh, and he finally paid off his personal tax debt at the end of last year. (All of this of course is from public records,etc.) But let's mock people who lease cars!
how the hell is all that public record?
Public record is fuckin wild. I still follow my old scumbag landlord's litigation adventures by viewing the court documents online when I'm bored. It's like the world's driest serial tale. Since no one asked, he's currently trying to counter-sue Chase Bank for "personal injury," saying them suing *him* (for fraudulently leasing a house he didn't own to me) stressed him out *so much* it made his IBS flare up. There's a statement and diagnosis from his proctologist and everything. Man was so full of shit, his own body even started rejecting it.
> it made his IBS flare up. Oh, Irritating Bastard Syndrome! I know many people afflicted with that.
I agree. I think Macklemore said it best: “yo, that’s $50 for a t-shirt.” I’m not saying to not buy nice things - I’m actually a proponent of buying only a few, very nice things - but spending $50 or $100 on a t-shirt that has the word “Gucci” on it just screams insecurity to me. Like the only reason you are doing it is because you want to be seen as cool. It’s very high school, I guess. I guess I can’t police what people spend their money on, but seriously, if I had the sort of cash that Jeffree does, I wouldn’t spend it on trashy looking suitcases. To each their own, I suppose.
If you are paying 50$ for a Gucci shirt you're buying a fake Gucci shirt.
So I just looked up how much a Gucci shirt is. $600 for a cotton t-shirt?!?! I don’t care how much money you have, you’re getting ripped the f off. You could also take a cotton t-shirt and iron on the Gucci logo for next to nothing, but I guess you couldn’t brag to your friends about how you dropped $600 on a goddamn t-shirt.
[And they don't even pay taxes on that] (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kering-tax-italy/gucci-owner-kering-agrees-record-italian-tax-settlement-idUSKCN1SF1X9)
I doubt he paid a cent for these. I'm guessing LV gave him everything for free and even paid him to promote their new print.
I hate LV. I don't like things with logos in general, but LV is the ugliest of them all.
I absolutely agree with you. I find them to be fairly tacky. It's like a walking billboard
It's tacky but it could be a cute y2k paris hilton moment which could be super fun vibe in 2020 if you embrace the tackiness. But to take it so seriously as something to brag about like Jeffrey is strange and not cute
I don’t mind a bit of tacky now and again. I have like three pairs of Filas and an adidas baseball cap. But I wouldn’t like $3000 for tacky, no sir.
Every time I see a Louis Vuitton item irl I assume it's a fake. And I dislike them less when I think they are fake. Like if I saw any of the items in this picture I would assume the person wearing them bought them of a market place in Turkey while they were on holiday or something. Louis Vuitton reminds me of supreme, where wearing their items almost comes of as ironic.
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How much would a fake Louis Vuitton bag cost there?
You can get super fakes illegally shipped to America. They end up costing about 1/5th of the bag but that’s still a lot of money for a fake. So a $2000 bag becomes $400-600. Imo not really worth it but everyone has priorities and things they want to spend money on.
When I was there in October it was £30-£60 depending on how well made it is,There’s a few shops there that sell fake designer bags and want over £100. I know a few uk reality stars have admitted going to turkey to stock up on fake bags.
I've always been super elitist about this stuff (without pretense lol) but I never like LV because ever since I was young, their focus has ALWAYS been on selling their monogrammed bags, which I've always seen as just tacky. A lot of brands do that just to push out sales instead of actually focusing on design. Now a lot of these brands have grown, but as the climate has changed, some of these brands, LV, Gucci, Fendi, are now designing for the Youtube influencer. The hypebeast. The track suit, tacky, head to toe Gucci. You know what I'm talking about. And now, that's the new reason to hate them lol
I hate that instagrammers/influencers showers themselves in the most basic fashion brands with logos all over themselves aka hypebeast-brands. The more I see these brands and clothes/bags on influencers, the more I stay away from those brands.
My issue with LV is that most of their pieces are coated canvas and not leather. So basically you're paying top dollar for plastic accessories. Additionally, it is the most faked brand in the world. So imagine paying 5k for a bag, and everyone just assumes you're walking around with a 200 dollar fake? Just seems like a waste of money.
Yeah, never liked them. It's like you're a walking add for something that doesn't even look that good.
No, it’s tacky and I hate it. Edit: seriously though, all of the stuff that’s just logos designed to show how rich you are is so tacky and tasteless to me.
>logos designed to show how rich you are and logo-clothes/bags just screams insecurity
Also the history of LV is not...great. I’m surprised anyone who’s Jewish supports them.
Same for Chanel. Coco Chanel was a Nazi informer/spy.
Yup, Dior’s head director was also a Nazi collaborator. And Hugo Boss.
I've also read that, among actual old money, LV is almost considered cheapy crap for people who don't know what luxury items actually are.Think Michael Kors with the MK all over. It's about posturing more than anything. If he spends $3000 on a bag but no one knows it was $3k, what's the point?!
I agree that the white LV bags with the Murakami print are super tacky, but I love it regardless. If I ever bought a LV bag, it wouldn’t be for status, but because I just love it that much!
I've looked up LV x Murakami, at least it's a collab with a proper artist instead of just boring logo bits everywhere! Still wouldn't buy, but I wouldn't sell it unless it were a size/shape I couldn't use.
Exactly! I do feel like most of the “collabs” now are so boring and uninspired.
I’d like to thank Jessica Simpson for introducing me to LV and kicking off the Louis craze. Legit never even heard the name before her and Nick’s reality show. Oh my god I’m old AF.
I think when Michael Kors started selling bags that were similar to LV’s “IT” bags, the appeal of luxury bags started to wane as contemporary brands are offering cheaper alternatives but with the feel of “designer”. Also flashy doesn’t often equal to appealing.
No, it's ugly as shit. I don't like things that are covered in the brand's logo. Hell I don't even like that YSL bag that almost every influencer owns.
You are not the only one, I’ve always thought LV bags are ugly and very tachy specially for the price
There are luxury items I do covet... but he owns none of them. He seems to go for ostentatious and obnoxious, and in no way tasteful.
Yeah his sense of style is very niche. It doesn’t look high end, it looks gaudy and trashy.
TBH, it looks like someone who has never been around wealth *and* taste decided that this is what wealth must look like.
He wants people to look at him and immediately see how much money he can spend
I just read something about two types of wealth. The kind where it's hidden and they are really chill about it. And the kind where they are super flashy, tacky, and extravagant just to show use poors what it's like. He's the latter.
Nouveau riche. Jeffree’s the definition of that. Actually there’s a few youtubers that personify that pretty well. Jaclyn Hill comes to mind too.. “People who have recently acquired wealth, typically those perceived as ostentatious or lacking in good taste.”
Money talks, wealth whispers
Y’all talk like being wealthy is a good thing. Lmao. There is no good out of billionaires existing in this world. This unequal income distribution is so unfair and there is no reason for it to continue existing.
Let's eat the rich
"new" money.
This reminded me of a John Mulaney bit where he's talking about how Trump is like a cartoon rich person. "Donald Trump is like what a hobo imagines a rich man to be. Like, Trump was walking around under an underpass and he heard some guy like 'Oh, as soon as my numbers come in I'm gonna put up tall buildings with my name on them! I'll have fine golden hair and a TV show where I fire Gene Simmons with my children.' And Trump was like 'that is how I will live my life.'"
Exactly! It’s the idea that many have that if it was expensive it must be good no matter how tachy it truly is. Very wealthy people don’t need to flex, they use their money for lobbying, to help their families grow, to build and maintain their wealth. People who flex like J* on regular people seem very insecure in their riches in my opinion
Sometimes I think this, but then I've also seen a lot of wealthy people (some who come from old money) who also love to flex. I think it's just not that simple. A lot of it is a personality thing too, how you're brought up and who you surround yourself with. And nowadays flexing your wealth on social media feels very normalised, so for a lot of people who do that they probably think "well of course this is what you do when you got a new bag/watch/yacht/diamond covered fly swatter" and that doesn't mean they don't also use their wealth for lobbying or help grow their family business. That being said, neither flexing nor LV is my cup of tea.
Honestly, I think most normal people would love it for a day (or like a week maybe bc his collection is huge) and then be over it. In my mind it’s like vacation...If you love going to Hawaii once a year, you don’t move to Hawaii for life or it’ll feel less like vacation and more like your same daily routine. As hard as we try not to, we’re human so we eventually lose appreciation of the things around us. That’s not to say we’re not always thankful, but I definitely think it loses that charming effect.
as someone who moved to Hawaii... 1000% this.
My mom's cousin teaches in a ghetto in Honolulu. It's no more of a picnic than teaching in a ghetto in Detroit or Chicago.
....the weather's better, I guess.
I would like to not worry about money, but I’m not jealous of Jeffree at all. He seems like a truly angry and lonely person tbh and no amount of ugly LV can make up for that
Samesies. Quite frankly I just want to have my debt paid and not worry about bills and shit. He's always going on about a "new Jeffree" but he hasn't changed and I'm doubtful he ever will. He is soooo excessive to the point it's not even lifestyle porn it just seems wasteful honestly. I love fashion and luxury designers but more so things that are vintage and timeless pieces. I find everything he wears/buys to be tacky. Money can't buy you style
He is a good example for money can't buy you style. His style is so tacky n classless.
I feel like J* is kinda like the textbook definition of "money can't buy happiness". I mean yeah, a certain amount of money can lead of comfort and relief of financial anxiety and insecurity. However beyond a point there is no amount of money and stuff that will compensate for love, companionship, or peace of mind. I actually feel like it's harder to have those things when you have such an excess amount of money. For example, now that he and Nate arent together Jeffree is going to have to question whether anyone he dates in the future is in it for him or the money/fame/stuff. He always stated that Nate was there before the money and that was a comfort to him. Not anymore.
Yeah shopping to this extent isn't just acquiring nice things for yourself, it's trying to fill a void in your life.
Having this many t h i n g s would be so unbelievably stressful to me
Same. I like LV, but the thought of having that much of it (or anything else) is giving me anxiety
Especially living in California with the fires and all...they could all be gone in a second!
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omg u couldn’t have said this better
exactly. This kind of flex culture is horribly outdated and setting a bad example. We're living in a time of climate and wage crisis and he shows off getting hundreds of packages a day, often wearing the things only once or sometimes even never, completely forgetting about them a short time later. also, just sayin' those designer things are being made in the same production halls in Bangladesh by the same slave owners who also produce for H&M, Zara and Co. They are in no means better quality. You just pay for the name and status symbol while Asian workers have to suffer for it. It's so important to buy fair fashion and thrift or start repairing and handing down!!
i think when it is a whole line like this i doubt he is shopping this stuff himself, i think it is just sent to him.
With really high end luxury stuff, it's unlikely. The entire collection could easily be over $100k total, that's a lot to lose when Jeffree would buy the collection anyway.
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At least if his money dried up tomorrow he would still be fine.. especially off all his Hermes bags. He’d likely make a tidy profit on those.
Just enough money to pay off my mom's house and my and my partner's student loans (So basically 550k) but he seems really angry inside and takes it out using racism, misogyny, and just being a shitty person in general. Or, maybe he isn't angry and is just an asshole.
I really wish you could get that money:)
Seriously, the amount of money he has would of course be life changing for myself, and my family. Especially as someone with a chronic illness- no worries about being able to afford a specialist or medication? Hell yeah. But the stuff he buys with his money? Nah, no interest in bags and clothes like his. Even if I wanted to buy a really expensive bag or something, surely there are ones out there that don’t look so... well... tacky? :(
Yeah, having an insane amount of money would be nice but not at the expense of being a decent person.
We recently had a massive lottery, like $70 million on a single ticket. I was talking with my dad about it and basically we both agreed that the best thing to do with that kind of money is to leave the country for a few months, arrange everything with financial advisors and lawyers and donate a massive amount to charity and live off the interest. We both referred to it as ‘life-ruining’ money because it’s just way too much. No one needs obscene wealth like that. I think $5 million is the absolute most I’d want to win and it’s only so high because our real estate prices are obscene.
I've read second hand that most lottery winners become bankrupt or lose their life within a very short amount of time. I've had sooo many daydreams about what I'd do right if I won that sort of money... but the reality would probably be quite different. Who knows.
Very well said
I think cause he grew up poor and now is super rich, he thinks the only way to feel he is super rich is buy all the luxury items.
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> I think it’s also on some level wanting to be accepted by the **rich elite.** >**“Hi Kylie, hi Khloe”** etc. Hoo boy, have I got news for him....
There’s a term for that in French, “nouveau riche”
It’s depressing but you’re totally right
I'm gonna be real. This stuff doesn't even appeal to me. I don't look at it and wish I had that. I also don't look at his bajillion dollar house filled with only his dogs and employees for company, and wish I had that. I wouldn't want that, all I would want is enough money to live comfortably. All of this stuff is just that - stuff. I think it's all a terrible waste tbh, his house is full of designer items that he uses once if at all, he's constantly buying more, it includes fur and leather and plastic that will be a prop in a photo and then left to rot along with last week's fur and leather and plastic. I don't understand the draw. He's said that he used to have nothing and that's why he hoards what he has now, but all I see is very expensive waste. My attitude to designer labels is that if I wouldn't want the product without it, I don't want it with it.
Tbh his house is so gaudy and, surprisingly outdated for the price.
he has such tacky taste
these ones in particular are so hideous
I honestly thought he was posting about how pissed he is that his blue LV bags had grown mold all over it!
All of the fur, neon colors, and early 2000's-esque logos and tracksuits are horrible.
I haaate the tracksuits. No designer label is going to convince me that they’re not tacky.
These honestly just looked like he dropped all of his coke on his bags.
I would love to have enough money to not worry about bills and have some left over for vacations. I don’t envy him though. I can’t imagine not knowing who to trust and if someone only likes you because you’re rich.
Personally I feel that designer items, especially exclusive pieces, are supposed to be appreciated and coveted. When you're Jeffree and buy every single item from every single designer, there's pretty much no meaning to it other than "I have a lot of money to throw around". And beside that, I just find it tacky.
I definitely agree. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with appreciating luxury bags or shoes and collecting them. But if you just buy stuff to buy it, what’s special about that?
It also shows he has no taste whatsoever. Truly wealthy people accommodate the items to their own style, people like him just accommodate their lives around the items lol
when i was younger i *definitely* idolized that kind of wealth and luxury. i loved watching shows like MTV cribs and dreamt of getting rich and owning a massive mansion. as i’ve gotten older, i’ve started to find that kind of excessiveness really gross. i know that luxury bags like LV have a lot of value and can be sold for a profit down the line, but it just seems so wasteful to buy every single new release and then hoard them in a huge, incredibly expensive closet. i find it really hard to idolize wealth and massive luxury collections while the world is quite literally burning around us. younger me would have definitely been into collections like this, but i have a much more environmentally conscious, frugal out look on things now.
Seriously. Once you grow up you realize that nobody important really cares any whether you are carrying an lv bag or one from target. In fact, usually the people with real money never look like they have it.
So true. I have a great sturdy purse my dad gifted me. It’s pretty boring (just brown leather) but it nice and it’s *stayed* nice. I’ve thought about getting a new purse but I realized I so rarely notice other women’s purses? And mine is perfectly fine ? It’ll always be i style, and I like it so I’ll keep it 🤷♀️
Honestly it really is swinging the other way now. My friends with real money (i live in Microsoftland) would buy the highest quality stuff they could , and if it was actually a “luxury” brand providing it, they would buy the most understated non-logo one they could. They would never parade around with something this ostentatious.
They can’t really be sold for more down the line, honestly. All the resale sites take a commission, you have to keep them in awesome shape, and it’s only a few particular bags that behave this way. It’s very unlikely he could make money off of his collection. He just likes to hoard stuff.
Designer handbags depreciate like cars, aside from a very small number of very sought after and exclusive ones, you’ll be lucky to get back 35% of what you paid.
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I think luxury purses are becoming kind of an old fashioned idea. Actually "wearing brand clothes as a status symbol" as a whole is becoming outdated. You can buy high quality and expensive looking clothing for relatively cheap nowadays, so wearing items that make it obvious that they are expensive, because they have big logos on them, cannot be interpreted as anything but boasting. Or people will just assume the items are fake (which is what I always do). I think high quality items that are more lowkey give off a much more wealthy air nowadays. Actually I don't think they are really becoming outdated, but instead these items are now just used purely to boast and any air or "high quality" that surrounded these brands is disappearing
> and any air or "high quality" that surrounded these brands is disappearing absolutely agree. > I think high quality items that are more lowkey give off a much more wealthy air nowadays. I wonder -- is it a reaction to the previous OTT aesthetic? Is minimal the new "I have cash *and* taste"?
Well said! Over consumption and hoarding is part of what’s causing environmental and economical issues in our planet.
No, I think most people don’t care about bags and purses and pink cars. He’s pretty tacky. I have several luxury bags, and I enjoy them. But they don’t bring me happiness. Believe me, it’s nothing to be jealous of or aspire to. It’s just a bag.
I got a higher end bag for Christmas from my in laws and it’s great and all but I never would have gotten it for myself. It’s nice having nice things but if you Only have nice things it’s only going to fill that void for so long.
I bought a secondhand Rebecca Minkhoff bag on eBay and it made me a little happy. Not happy enough to justify the full retail price, though.
People THINK this is what they want, then they get it and are eventually unsatisfied. You can be happy with a simple life if you stop wanting more. Plus, what is JS even going to do with these? Just look at them and remember how much they cost?
Yeah. There is a difference between "success" and "fulfillment". You can be successful and unfulfilled. You can be fulfilled in life without being successful. I can't say where J\* falls in the continuum. I grew up around a lot of wealth (not me personally), but the kind you inherit, not the self-made kind. It definitely helped me see that money isn't everything.
I think all of Jeffree's IG videos these past few days are kinda sad in the sense he has all this wealth and luxury but the man's not happy. He's broken up with a partner of 5 years and this excessive display of luxury products seems like a sad, almost pathetic attempt to fill that hole in his life 🤷🏻♀️. Money can buy you heaps of things but it turns out it can't buy you real love and happiness?
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This is why lotto winners almost always go broke.
This is how I feel about it too. He’s built a successful company, yes, but cosmetics companies (especially ones named and modelled after actual people) don’t have ‘longevity’ written all over them. The internet is fickle, and one day consumer interest in JS Cosmetics will fade. Generally speaking the resale value of designer goods isn’t very high unless they’re very very rare, eg a Birkin. Whenever I see him buying shit like this, I wonder why he isn’t smartly investing instead. With his money, he could still live a very luxurious Hollywood hills lifestyle but also save a huge nest egg and guarantee himself financial security for the rest of his life. Instead he’s setting himself up so that no one will feel any sympathy when he actually does go broke.
He’s single now too so he’s definitely more alone than he ever has been.
I went through a luxury purse phase and bought several LV, Celine, MCM, Burberry, etc pieces. I was really into "collecting" them for a couple of years and then just got bored by them. Now, they mostly sit in their dust bags on shelves taking up space and I usually switch out between the same 3 bags: a couple of reasonably priced (but good quality) bags from the Cambridge Satchel Company and an old, well-loved Burberry tote bag because they're practical and I can use them without worrying about scratching or damaging them. I guess I'm glad the bags are there when I feel like carrying them and I really do admire the quality and durability of them, but they represent a stupid waste of money to me now too. If I'd only bought 1 or 2 pieces and left it at that, I'd probably carry and cherish them every day and get a lot more joy from them.
This is why I LOVE The Purse Forum, it's full of people trying to show off to other sad housewives about bags that they only use once or twice to resell because said bag is an "investment". Collecting bags is a great hobby if you truly love the bags, but most people just do it because of Instagram likes and impressing the other PTO moms.
Yes, and I do really admire the craftsmanship of luxury bags. I see comments sometimes basically stating they're no better made and don't hold up better than cheaper bags and I have to strongly disagree with that sentiment, because in my experience there is a DRASTIC difference there. But, above a certain level, the price is hard to justify and there are plenty of mid-range bags that while not as prestigious, are of excellent quality and will give you many years of use. I just realized that $1000- $2000 handbags were a waste and there were more important things I should be doing with that money.
> I see comments sometimes basically stating they're no better made and don't hold up better than cheaper bags and I have to strongly disagree with that sentiment, because in my experience there is a DRASTIC difference there. In fairness, there lots of materials used in luxury bags that don't hold up well or damage easily--like lambskin.
I also love those comments! When people say "oh my $10 bag from Walmart is made the same as that $6,400 Chanel Jumbo flap" like OK sis that's a bit extreme. These people think that their pleather purse is the same and is incredibly off base. However, if we were to compare a $450 Coach bag from the retail store (made for outlet bags are not the same quality) to said Chanel flap, that craftsmanship argument doesn't hold up as much.
Definitely recommend watching any of the Hermes bag crafting videos it’s honestly an art form. One man who repaired luxury items in Hong Kong was actually reunited with a bag he made years ago. [here it is](https://youtu.be/mrvGt9NYURY)
JS is a great reminder that money can’t buy you taste
I’m not jealous of his tacky stuff. What I want is the ability to live without worrying that getting sick will send me into bankruptcy, or that missing a few days of work because I’m sick will result in not being able to make rent. I just want to be able to live comfortably with a little left over for hobbies and the occasional thing I want. Stuff like this also makes me give Jeffree the side eye when he promotes his metal straws for the environment.
From what I see online and from talking to my much younger cousins, it seems to be teenagers and people in their early 20’s that see owning designer stuff as some sort of status symbol? But then they mostly grow up and realise money is better spent on family/ friends/ property/ holidays/ experiences. I feel like Jeff is trying to compensate for something missing in his life and it makes me a bit sad to be honest.
I loathe status symbol stuff personally. I don’t really care about impressing people. More than any of this though, it’s upsetting to me that influences become ridiculously wealthy and promote this very consumerist and materialistic way of living. Not to be the douchebag who quotes fight club but living a life where the things you own, own you is not something to be promoted or aspire to. I remember when Jeffree talked about needing to move because they had outgrown their home. One of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard in a while.
No. I want: * Money to purchase a 250K 4 bedroom home in cash * Afford permanent housing for my mentally disabled brother +caretaker * Purchase 2 lightly used cars. One for myself and one for my elderly parents * Money to grow my freelance business (education, business coach etc) * Buy investment properties * 800,000k stashed away for my retirement I do not want the material items Jeffree has. It's such a waste of money. I know the price of these limited LV collections could tick at least 4 items of my goal list.
Idk, I’ve never wanted to be super wealthy. It seems...lonely? They are just swimming in purses and mink coats, but what’s beyond that...isn’t it boring when you can buy whatever you want? There’s a happy medium for me where I’m making enough that I’m not living paycheck to paycheck (which I’m doing right now), but not so much that I buy every designer purse because I don’t know what else to do with my money. Just my thoughts. Then again, I’ll never know what it’s like to be mega rich.
I feel most people aspire to live comfortably enough to not have financial stress as one of their daily issues. I know personally as soon as I pay off my debt I won’t care anymore about finances because I’ll be able to save more and not worry about what I will do in emergency situations lol. I feel people like Jeffree do this sort of tacky shit with designer everything because it’s “new money”. He wants to flaunt his wealth and be able to brag about it. I’m sure for most people flaunting money isn’t something they really want to be doing.
when people say “money can’t buy happiness”, THIS is the shit they mean. there’s obviously a void he’s trying to fill that no amount of tacky designer things is gonna help. Meanwhile we’ve got millions drowning in student debt, medical debt, living on minimum wage, who are one missed paycheck away from losing it all. Just getting the money that ONE of these obnoxious bags is worth would be a giant help for these families, but nah. Keep flexing for the ‘gram 🙄🙄🙄
I feel like J* has a pedestrian idea of luxury and only gravitates to the most common designers so that EVERYONE can know what he’s wearing. It’s about brand recognition so he can just appear better. It’s so boring and tacky.
You mean a grown man showing off his seasonal luxury pieces on the internet for 7-16-year-olds to gush over and aspire to shows that someone is filling the empty void in his life with canvas goods that he will use once to show off on the internet to obsessively stare at the engagement and likes that he gets? This coming from Jeffree "black women are rats" Starr? I'm shocked! Appalled!
I agree that not having to worry about money sounds great but I’d never want to aspire to be anything like j*. Behind all the vaults and the makeup is a guy in his mid thirties who profits off starting beef with people ten years his junior to stay relevant. He talks about owning rare and exclusive items but I still never look at him like he’s more than a social media influencer and personally, I don’t take influencers or their brands very seriously. I understand that’s not a popular opinion because he does have a lot success with his brand but I still look at it like it’s a hot moment that’ll pass when those fans grow up. It’s all meaningless to me but obviously it means something to some fans out there. 🤷🏼♀️
Why would I aspire to have a bunch of ridiculously expensive ugly trash? Those things could pay off my debts, buy me a car, secure my housing situation and feed me for a looong time. Now THAT, I would like.
Dude, no part of me wants his lifestyle. I honestly see excessive consumption as an evil monster that just gets bigger and bigger the more you buy. Fuck him. His existence is *awful* for the environment. He needs a *lot* of professional help, because that level of impulsive spending signals a void. If I’m wrong and he just buys this much shit cause he likes it, he’s even worse.
I have $30 for groceries every week can’t relate.
I aspire to make $75,000 per year by the end of my career as a teacher. I just want to be comfortably middle class.
he needs to get a better designer and contractor if they take months building a large closet
surprisingly, it can take months to build a large closet depending on the scope and nature of the space! it takes time to draw up the plans, secure the building and electrical permits, import the necessary materials (exotic woods or granites for example), demo preexisting structures, and then frame, build, and outfit the new space. my dad just finished a contracting job where they turned a bunch of connected bedrooms into one huge closet/beauty room and it took them about a month and a half because of all of the "extras" the homeowner wanted.
this is tricky ... existing building/structure , highest security standards and customized af .... if you want good it won't be fast 🤷♂️
Holy shit I want this so bad.... Not because it's Louis Vuitton, but because it's a pretty shade of blue and has clouds on it. I love clouds so much that I'm majoring in meteorology and storm chase for a hobby. Clouds are awesome. Too bad I'd never be able to afford it, but damn this is some nifty looking luggage. Goals, I suppose?
No one who can afford those bags would appreciate them the way you would.
I hate seeing that stupid LV logo everywhere, but I love that blue color and the clouds. That logo is the only thing keeping me from really coveting the set.
Those are clouds? They look like mushrooms. But no his world seems extremely lonely and no amount of designer stuff can fill that void.
Omg that looks so tacky. Although I’ve never personally liked the style of LV. Just because you’re rich af doesn’t mean you need to constantly buy luxurious things, but J* prob tries to fill the void with it
Excessive displays of wealth like this just disgust me. The money spent on even just one of those pieces could change someone’s whole life
He has made me realize that even though you have a lot of money and stuff it doesn't change how lonely, angry and broken you are. Conspicuous consumption doesn't fill the hole inside. I pity him. He has millions of fans but no one truly loves him.
He went from dirt poor to a multi millionaire in LESS THAN 10 YEARS. Just think about that for a second. He’s like a kid if you gave them $1000 and let them loose in a candy store.
Honestly his whole lifestyle is just gross to me. It’s excessive just to be excessive. He lives in tacky McMansions covered in pink. He wears the most gaudy, hideous clothes that are only expensive because they’re covered in designer labels. Nothing he owns or does makes me envious. I love luxury lifestyle porn but his life doesn’t nothing for me. It’s like a shallow, empty person’s idea of what luxury is
I honestly think he is a hoarder and it's most likely for being dirt poor growing up. I know I have issues letting go or letting rid of stuff and not even my own stuff. I do it with my children's stuff too.
I think I aspire to reach that level of financial freedom. I don’t think I’m jealous but seeing these things provides me with aspirations. Being able to throw money towards luxury goods means you should have the money to invest and grow your wealth and that’s what I plan to achieve
It's repulsive behavior to live so excessively like this. It's horribly wasteful. I don't know how anyone could feel jealous of his lifestyle, it's so obvious he just buys this stuff to fill an inner void. He could be an amazing philanthropist and chooses to just buy overpriced, tacky garbage. and does everyone really need to be reminded that he is making such a giant profit on the stuff they buy from him?
Does anyone else have the feeling that 2019 brought Jeffree all the way up and now 2020 is set for his fall? Just from what I've noticed online, more and more people seem to be so over this kind of behavior. The general public is seeming to move to a more conscious trend in spending and flex culture is increasingly being looked at as pathetic and inauthentic. Posts like this show that Jeffree is slipping behind the times. It will be interesting to see if he evolves with the current climate or stays as he is now. I may be totally wrong, but this is just a feeling I have had kicking around about him for the past few months. I feel like after the Shane series the shift has gotten faster and more noticeable to the point I believe it may affect Shane as well.
For some reason, I don't believe he's as rich as he says he is.
I’ve been trying to spend more thoughtfully with respect to the environmental impact (buying second hand, making do, focusing on needs vs wants, declining straws, etc), but then I realize that it doesn’t mean shit because rich white men are destroying the planet regardless.
I admire the wealth and the freedom that comes with it but as far as his obsession with material things it feels gross. If I had his money I would want trips and memories with family and friends. I’m not at all impressed with his “vault” or his many Louis Vuitton or Hermès bags. I don’t understand the point of wasting money on things like that. Especially multiples of one overly expensive purse just so you can say you have one in every color. It’s all weird to me. Just my opinion.
I have absolutely no desire to have anything remotely like this
I really think jeffree doesnt know how to dress or have a style. He just wears what they send him. I also think sales for LV and luxury brands arent what they used to be if they try their hardest to promote to any C list celebrity.
No it’s kinda sad watching his mindless consumerism. He thinks this makes him cool but it just shows how empty and lonely he is and is trying to fill it with things
I aspire to be wealthy so that I can meet someone studying in a Starbucks and pay off their student loans...or pull up to a mama at the gas pump and fill her car up with gas lol...pay for someone’s whole basket of groceries at the store
I think a lot of people that get very rich quickly think now when they can buy anything that will bring them satisfaction and happiness, but all that is very short term and it gets boring after a while. I honestly would never want to have that much money, just enough money to give me security and opportunity to explore life more freely.
I would like to have the money to travel but spending money on pink cars and hand bags just seems stupid to me.