Barney's: Introducing our 2013 Collaboration with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter

[up in here]

LOL....But its not about me.....I'm addressing the phony outrage and calling it for what it is.....People can talk about JayZ/Barneys all they please that wont stop me from calling it what it is. I'm not concerned with sweatshops or Jay Z's deal. I look at sweatshops and Jay Z's deal as part of capitalism and consumerism.

so all this time you spent arguing about "the greater evil" that people should be concerned with and you yourself have no care for it at all. you are an idiot.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Aaaaand....

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/barneys-cancels-jay-z-fundraiser-article-1.1521506

...dont ask me how...

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[smokeurobinson]

so all this time you spent arguing about "the greater evil" that people should be concerned with and you yourself have no care for it at all. you are an idiot.

I know I said u can have the last word but I just wanna point out something.....This is the third time u have insulted me and I never insulted you once. My initial statement was me proving why the jay/barneys situation is phony outrage. Me going back and forth was just me pointing out why it was with examples and comparisons to help better explain because I'm all for building.....Insults are unneccessary when having a convo. Thats why I let you have the last word because you started insulting me instead of building by making better points to stand by in your argument because u weren't making any.

 

[up in here]

I know I said u can have the last word but I just wanna point out something.....This is the third time u have insulted me and I never insulted you once. My initial statement was me proving why the jay/barneys situation is phony outrage. Me going back and forth was just me pointing out why it was with examples and comparisons to help better explain because I'm all for building.....Insults are unneccessary when having a convo. Thats why I let you have the last word because you started insulting me instead of building by making better points to stand by in your argument because u weren't making any.

you never proved anything.

as far as the insults, the first two times i was saying that you were not stupid and that you could easily grasp the idea of locality affecting peoples positions in regards to any social issues. its not a difficult concept. i honestly believed you were simply pretending to not understand.

the reason i eventually called you an idiot is because it appears that not only do you not understand the fact that locality is a major factor in regards to support for a social issue, but also you clearly dont understand that one "evil" doesn't cancel out another, nor do you even care about either evil. i thought you were not stupid but you proved me wrong.

 

[blackslash]

so which one of u c00ns is supporting the greater evil by coppin dem ugly ass foams

 

[OG Talk]

Angela Yee is posting all the items and prices on Instagram now and n1ggas is going in calling him an out of touch sellout...

$3,000 dollar leather boxing trunks



$700 ski masks




He's totally lost the majority of the Black community...Only cacs and c00ns are rollin with him at this point...

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

Aaaaand....

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/barneys-cancels-jay-z-fundraiser-article-1.1521506

probably because jay could not get the people to go with him

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

Canceled! Barneys calls off Jay Z's holiday fundraiser that promised to raise $1m for his charity after mass furor over racial profiling claims

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...profiling-saying-investigative-committee.html

 

[boskey]

Angela Yee is posting all the items and prices on Instagram now and n1ggas is going in calling him an out of touch sellout...

$3,000 dollar leather boxing trunks



$700 ski masks




He's totally lost the majority of the Black community...Only cacs and c00ns are rollin with him at this point...

lol Jay is gonna come out of this situation looking foolish. He had to go thru all of this bad PR, issuing press releases, forming political committees etc...all that to defend his right to sell $700 ski masks and thousand dollar bathrobes. People judged the little homie that got arrested for the 350 dollar belt but compared to the stuff in this collection thats damn near reasonable....

I'm actually surprised how "urban" these items are. Other than Pusha T and Fabolous who is supposed to buy this?

Its for the kids tho

 

[archer24]

Buzz around launch of Jay Z’s Barneys collection more about high prices than style

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...uts-gleaming-window-display-article-1.1523416

Welcome to the Jay Zzzzzzzzzz collection.

More gawkers than shoppers showed up for the controversial launch of Jay Z’s highly touted, limited-edition, luxury holiday collection at Barneys — where the buzz Wednesday was more about the rapper’s sky-high prices than his cutting-edge design.

A couple who drove up from Philadelphia for the debut left the Madison Ave. store empty-handed and underwhelmed.

“I was a little disappointed,” said Salie Schimmer, 52, a personal trainer. “We walked in and we were like ‘Wow, this is it?’ ”

Schimmer, who described herself as the “oldest hip-hop fan in Philadelphia,” is a huge Jay Z aficionado, part of the reason she made the two-hour drive from the City of Brotherly Love.

But after seeing the lackluster response from shoppers and the prices — ranging from $70 for the cheapest T-shirt to $58,000 for an alligator-skin coat — Schimmer wasn’t optimistic about Jay Z’s sales.

Shopping the Jay Z Collection at Barneys

http://www.thefader.com/2013/11/20/...-foundation-holiday-collection/#ixzz2lGxf6iCX

At 9:35AM, it was quiet outside Barneys’ flagship at Madison and 60th Street. The store’s holiday-themed windows were not yet finished. A visual merchandising team bustled in and out of a gold, sculptural room built onto the front of the store, testing graphics to be shown on monitors inside it. There were no wrap-around-the-block lines, as there had been for Lady Gaga and Isabel Marant’s look-for-less collections with H&M, just two young shoppers: 29-year-old Ila, who was visiting from Japan, and Marcus, a 25-year old designer from Brooklyn. “There’s a lot of positivity in this,” Marcus said. “Jay Z is a black dude from Brooklyn and he got his line in Barneys. [The collection] is top of the line, Lanvin and Balenciaga—if he could do it, I could do it.” Allowed in from the cold a couple minutes before opening by a security guard, Marcus pointed out an En Noir leather windbreaker from the collection, on display in a window, that he wanted to buy eventually. This morning, he said, his sights were set on the Just Don python brim cap. An older white woman waiting with Marcus said she hadn’t come to shop the Jay Z collection. She thought the collaboration had been called off, after receiving an email announcing the cancellation of today’s launch party. When she suggested that the line is too expensive, Marcus interjected that sales will benefit a good cause. She said she’d rather give to charity on her own.

Spoiler

 

[franknitty711]

Jay is basically a trojan horse at this point. His exterior is all that is left and inside we find the machine that operates at a high efficiency level. That machine is corporate america, and whatever else is out there to distract and entrap you.

I have a wife, 2 kids, and a mortgage. Spending that kind of money on clothing at this point of my life is irresponsible.

 

[OG Talk]

I'm actually surprised how "urban" these items are. Other than Pusha T and Fabolous who is supposed to buy this?

Probably the same trustfund hipster/wiggers that go to his concerts...

 

[scuba]

Probably the same trustfund hipster/wiggers that go to his concerts...

Not really... The Hipster Invasion in Brooklyn, is primarily driven by fashionable types who cant afford manhatan rents... so these dudes are not going to go all out to pay 700 bucks for ski masks... Basically this is targeted at the 1%. Its a selection of items from a bunch of known high end designers. The folks who regularly buy that kinda stuff will be the people who buy it now, except for a few super jigga fans who will be buying the lowest priced items...

 

[OG Talk]

except for a few super jigga fans who will be buying the lowest priced items...

I hear ya though...