The luxury fashion house Balenciaga has once again sparked debate with its latest accessory, a bracelet designed to resemble a roll of clear tape, complete with the brand's logo and a hefty price tag of approximately $4,000!
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Balenciaga, a world-class fashion house, knows its audience. Two years ago, it attracted the fashion elites with its designer garbage bag. Now it's offering a more upscale (and expensive) roll of packing tape that you can wear around your wrist like a bracelet.
Highsnobriety reports that Balenciaga unveiled its must-have accessory last winter but it has taken until more recently for larger and more gauche audiences to learn about it. The bracelet is helpfully branded with the fashion house's name so that people won't think that you're just wearing something you picked up at the office supply store. And, if I understand it correctly, the item just looks like a roll of tape, so it lacks the actual utility of tape that would mark you as a prole.
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