diluendo ([info]diluendo) wrote in [info]kimonoworld,
2006-04-28 12:49:00
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Yukata by Marc Jacobs

Marc by Marc Jacobs in Japan is now selling three modern Yukata for the summer. If you purchase a yukata during their promotion sale (4/14-5/7), you will receive a Marc Jacobs original kanzashi.


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Ana flower yukata with obi :
48,300yen
Color : blue


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Anais flower yukata
with obi :
48,300yen
Color : blue

Hair clip :
5,145yen
Color : navy


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Mj logo yukata with obi :
48,300yen
Color : black

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[info]sin_and_repent

April 28 2006, 20:08:37 UTC 6 years ago

*Eyes bulge out at the price* Holey Moley!

[info]diluendo

April 28 2006, 20:11:36 UTC 6 years ago

I was surprised, too. Sure, some Yukata can be costly but I don't quite see why these yukata are so expensive (other than the fact that they're Marc Jacobs).

[info]sin_and_repent

April 28 2006, 20:13:54 UTC 6 years ago

Aa... just paying for the brand name I see.

Even though that last one is pretty funky lookin'.

[info]thegreycoin

April 28 2006, 20:28:56 UTC 6 years ago

i love the first one.... but not for 48k yen. ;_;

[info]bebemochi

April 28 2006, 20:47:06 UTC 6 years ago

They're cute enough...I especially like that black and blue obi...but pricey.

I just read in some back issue of W that Marc Jacobs refuses to eat Japanese food. It recounted his going to a banquet in some ritzy Ginza restaurant and the hostess brought him a bag of Wendy's. I don't even know what to think about that.

[info]diluendo

April 28 2006, 21:15:50 UTC 6 years ago

.. Wow, how did his Japanese business partners react?

[info]bebemochi

April 28 2006, 22:59:18 UTC 6 years ago

I wish the article had gone into that. Unfortunately it was a lauditory article that treated the incident in sort of an "aw, isn't that cute?" way. I dunno, I guess people shouldn't be forced to eat what they don't want to, but... he does a ton of business in Japan. You'd think he'd be able to at least choke down some gyuudon or something.

[info]bebemochi

April 28 2006, 23:02:19 UTC 6 years ago

Oh man, and another thing--I'll post a link when I get the bookmarks from my broken compie, but there's a website that sells Jean Paul Gautier yukata. (They are incredibly uninteresting, but expensive, like these. Well, not quite as expensive, but you get my point. It's all name.)

[info]diluendo

April 28 2006, 23:48:46 UTC 6 years ago

Is this it? http://item.rakuten.co.jp/umesho/c/0000000122/

Wow. They either look like an elderly person's yukata or those cheap ones for tourists. It thought Gaultier would be more innovative than that.

Non-Japanese food must have been served at those meetings and banquets, too. Is it that he doesn't like Japanese food as in Washoku or just any kind of food made in Japan that isn't from an American chains like Wendy's? Even if they only served him washoku and he didn't like it, it seems strange that he would have someone bring him Wendy's hamburgers or whatever. Unless he was a junk-food addict. Or a baby.

[info]bebemochi

April 29 2006, 14:50:17 UTC 6 years ago

The article didn't go into huge detail, but essentially it said he'd had one bad experience with Japanese food. Earlier in the article he'd gone into a Japanese restaurant and asked for spaghetti, so it's apparently washoku he has a problem with, not food-prepared-by-the-Japanese. Either way, I sorta think he's a boogerhead. I mean, maybe he has reason for all this, but I doubt one experience could totally turn you off all Japanese food. I mean, there are so many other things he could eat, if, say, raw fish turned him off.

Those Gaultier are different than the ones I saw, but you're right, nothing especially innovative. I assumed they were designed in Japan and Gaultier's name was just slapped on it.

[info]desu

April 29 2006, 22:34:29 UTC 6 years ago

Earlier in the article he'd gone into a Japanese restaurant and asked for spaghetti...

...and got a live octopus instead. :0

[info]bebemochi

April 30 2006, 01:40:31 UTC 6 years ago

OHHHH NOOOOES TAKOYAKI ATTACKU

[info]bebemochi

May 2 2006, 03:50:36 UTC 6 years ago

I finally found the Gaultier things I meant.
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/machigiya/586413/667485/

I'm mostly just kinda underwhelmed, but this one is kind of amusing. Clearly it was made for a garu. *L*

I also found geta (for guys).
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/machigiya/jg-geta-3051/
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/machigiya/jg-geta-8651/
They aren't very exciting, either. Maybe it's all just too wabisabi for me or something. *L*

[info]honeycreepshow

April 28 2006, 20:53:55 UTC 6 years ago

hhaha yea, the only reason they're so expensive is because it's couture (even if it's just yukata...) I wouldn't expect any less a price from MJ

[info]diluendo

April 28 2006, 21:20:16 UTC 6 years ago

Hmmm.. I suppose that makes sense but it doesn't strike me as couture at all.

[info]honeycreepshow

April 28 2006, 22:51:14 UTC 6 years ago

Marc Jacobs is a couture label. If one of his handbags sells for 400+$, then you can bet a yukata+obi is going to be quite expensive as well.

[info]diluendo

April 28 2006, 23:03:09 UTC 6 years ago

I know. That's why I said the yukata doesn't "strike me" as couture. Not that it isn't. =)

But it is just a promotional item which a lot of designers in Japan have done and do (creating a yukata), as well.
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