A Thai grocery bag on a fashion runway, and other cultural products stolen by the global fashion industry
The luxury brand Balenciaga stole a cultural product, a two-dollar rainbow-colored Thai-origin sampheng bag, and sold it for over couple thousand each. This stirred Thai netizens to make a joke out of the interesting situation via hashtags to poke fun at how their beloved potato-sack-errand-tote turned high fashion. Deservedly, hashtag actions thwarted a reversal of attention from Balenciaga to Thai citizens. The rainbow bag debut showed who gained benefits of an apparent cultural product while protected from labels like being a fashion copycat. If Balenciaga got away with theft, then the Asian community does not. The Asian copycat stereotype exists and is […]
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