Ep22. Luxury Disconnect. Asking YOU My Most Controversial Question

I discuss the 'luxury disconnect' and ask YOU a controversial question. 🎁Want a FREE course? 👇Are you new to the Leathercraft Masterclass? 👇To get started, claim your video course (& discover the #1 thing every leathercrafter NEEDS to know). Go now and sign up! The video course (instant access) will be in your inbox in UNDER 60 seconds from now! ⏰📥 👉 https://www.leathercraftmasterclass.com/fineleathercraftcourses I'll see you there, Philip Discover how the online courses can help you and your leathercraft: https://www.leathercraftmasterclass.com/ Other useful resources: Follow on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/leathercraftmasterclass Read the Blog! https://www.leathercraftmasterclass.com/blog-1 Follow on Tik Tok! https://www.tiktok.com/@leathercraftmasterclass Follow on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/leathercraftmasterclass Show notes: So a woman walks into a luxury leather good shop she walks around and Marvels and all the beautiful skins and exotic leather handbags that she sees and while she's walking around the store she looks into the corner of the store and sees the most beautiful leather handbag that she's ever seen exotic leather crocodile skin Gold Hardware the lot the most Exquisite design so she walks over to investigate a little bit further and as she reaches over the table to grab the bag she lets out a loud fart absolutely mortified she's praying that nobody heard so she looks over to her left and there's nobody there and she looks over to her right and there materializes her worst nightmare a sales assistant who was standing there the entire time now at this point she's oh Beyond praying hoping that he didn't hear what she did so first of all he says hello Madam how can I help you today and she kind of mumbles I I just wanted to to see this handbag and and see how much it cost um Adam I could tell you the price but uh if you farted by merely touching the handle you're gonna [ __ ] when I tell you the price oh terrible terrible terrible joke um it's the only luxury joke I know so I thought I'd start out with that actually no it's not the only luxury joke I know I do know another one and I you know what I'll tell you closer to the end of the podcast if you're that interested in hearing it okay so what's this podcast about what am I talking about today what am I going to be taking you through so as some of you know on my Instagram and indeed on my YouTube channel if you've been watching my stories and my shorts and things like that you may occasionally see me going up to London which is only about half an hour no about an hour away from me here in Kent and uh I love going doing a little bit of shopping in London but also visiting some of the luxury stores in the high-end stores like Harrods and selfridges and you know walking down new Bond Street and seeing some of the beautiful boutiques that they have there indeed in my last podcast and vodcast I talked about my visit to pick at London and Swain Edney Brigg but something that I get and I'm not there that often maybe you know a handful of times a year but something I get I get a lot of people saying you know it was great to follow you along it's great to see all that stuff and you know all the luxury Brands and all their Glory but there is not a small minority of people that love to how can I put this politely mock the idea of luxury Brands uh expensive Exquisite items and I always talk about how it's not worth the price uh people that can buy those have got more money than cents uh wealthy people can't buy taste and all that kind of thing and I guess this is I guess you could call it kind of a pushback podcast in a sense on on that mentality to some extent yeah there are Brands out there that charge ridiculous prices for what you're getting especially ones that increase their prices a huge amount every year Chanel comes to mind if you look at some of their most famous bags now compared to just a few years ago the prices pretty much doubled but you're getting the same thing you know it's um they're playing a game and it's it's ridiculous but that is an exception to the rule I think there are a lot of great luxury brands that are producing Exquisite items for a very high price and I think sometimes and we can all be guilty of this we can't appreciate what we don't fully understand and this podcast is all about why that is but also how we can understand luxury a little bit better because some of us produce luxury leather goods or find other goods for as a brand as a full-time job as a part-time work to complement your day job and some people have aspirations to produce luxury leather goods in order to to sell so I think it's very good for us all to learn how to appreciate luxury and not just in the sense of leather goods but as a concept so I want to cut I want to start out with a question and I guess it could be seen as a controversial question but I'm going to ask it anyway but if you don't like the answer do ...