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By Christian Allaire
There’s something in an It bag that drives other people crazy, this might have to do with the fact that those bags are practical and ornamental. You can justify the acquisition by dressing with it every day. Recently, the Dior saddlebag has been sold as hot bread in places like RealReal. Prada’s reissued nylon mini-cars have also been a success with some of the most productive models. But a taste beats them all: the bags of the purchase of Telfar.
Introduced via the New York lopass in 2014, Telfar Clemens’ fashionable mini-cars are designed in vegan leather, with a “T” lopass, worth between $150 and $257, and are considered difficult to obtain. His appetite has remained strong and steady, and it’s easy to see why. These are the best bags to find the right balance between mode and functionality. Their spacious upper takes care of the shape makes them functional for everyday use, but the lopass makes them instantly recognizable prestigious objects. They’re even known as Bushwick Birkin, because all the cool kids in Brooklyn prefer to score one against, say, a $300,000 Himalayan Birkin. Here it’s not just about value or quality, it’s about using anything that’s hard to come by. It is a typhoon of great value, quality and scarcity. And unlike the It Bags of the past, which faint after a year, Telfar bags do what many others can’t: stay relevant.
Yesterday, the logo made a wonderful replenishment on their website. In the past, the falls occurred almost every month and were sold in a few nanoseconds. This one was no different. It didn’t take long for buyers to turn to Twitter to express their displeasure at the lack. Many, it seems, have not secured the bag. In fact, the word Telfar has even begun to trend on Twitter, where consumers have begun to spread memes about being too slow in the draw. “The bag was literally in my basket,” wrote a disappointed shopper, sharing a GIF of Denzel Washington hitting his opposite hand on a desk. Some, however, were pleased to see the exaggeration of The Telfar bags (and continue to do so), even though the latest version was lost. “Give Telfar the same power you give Chanel,” one user wrote. Another wrote: “I’m glad Telfar has this popular status. I hope more black fashion designers can also achieve this status.” When asked about this constant madness for his creations, Clemens wrote to Vogue: “It’s beautiful.”
On Twitter, a less attractive question arose about why the bags seem to sell so quickly. Fans are suspicious. It turns out that many of them have detected a trend in which new drops will appear on resale sites at much higher costs than the popular $100 to $300 diversity they usually look for. Inflated costs are a challenge that many contradict the initial intent available on the exchange.
Telfar representatives have expressed the challenge of reselling robots that can also take over their e-commerce page online in an Instagram story today. “Telfar is for people, not robots. Keep it on the ice as we remove them,” he reads. The site is temporarily closed as they are looking for the challenge. So, for enthusiasts waiting for their own Telfar, the next drop may have advanced the odds that fall in their favor.
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