I watched the 'big reveal' yesterday but only got around to getting on here today. The comments under her video were hilarious last night, so much shade which I didn't expect!
I think the bag is nice enough (I mean, if 13k bags are your thing, they're not mine). I had a giggle when she mentioned the saddles are made from the same leather. I am becoming so convinced by the end of the year she'll be building a stable block where the shed is and getting her own horse, and kitting it out in Hermes tack from head to hoof, haha. Ali will become a stable boy
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Seriously, though. I agree with a lot of you guys saying how she didn't seem that enthused. If I'd just paid 13k for a bag I would have been bouncing around the room screaming! I guess for me it kind of reminded me about Christmas Day as a kid. You're really excited during the build up and you just want it to be tomorrow as soon as possible... and then the day comes and goes, and there's that down moment afterwards where you're like "well that's it for another year". I feel like getting the Birkin was kind of like that for her. I really do think she should have waited to be offered one because (no shade to anyone who has bought a Hermes bag secondhand), if I was spending that sort of money, I'd want the full works. The phone call, the excited trip to the store, arriving and having champagne, the big reveal, having it pristinely wrapped up and leaving the store with the big orange bag on cloud nine. Ordering secondhand doesn't really give you the same experience, does it?
I'm an impulsive person, too, but sometimes you have to force yourself to just wait and see. The result is always better.
She panic bought a Birkin when most of us are trying to resist the panic buying of pasta and basic essentials. If she had been waiting a year for a Birkin, she would have got much less shade on her video- people would have appreciated she had been on the list before the pandemic and she paid full price. She, however, couldn't wait. She didn't read the room and spent a lot of the UK's annual take home wage on a bag during a time where people are being made redundant left, right and centre. She's very lucky that it hasn't gone down worse. It only takes a quick pop over to Fleur's Instagram to see how people react during these times to influencer selfishness. She's very bloody lucky she just went with the ostentatious show of wealth rather than the ostentatious show of wealth WHILE also flouting Covid guidelines. Also, handy timing that she put up the video after Fleur's apology. She was never going to look awful when she had that drama to make her look semi reasonable in comparison.