Thursday 28 March 2013

rench designer goods label, Hermès is selling the world’s most expensive T-shirt at the bargain price of $91,500 or a cool 14 Million Naira and some small change (when you can afford a 14 Million Naira T-shirt N640,000 is small change). According to a report report on Yahoo: “The black crew-neck men’s T-shirt, made of crocodile skin, was sniffed out. on the racks by a blogger at the Awl Monday, who wrote, “Yes. It finally happened. Congratulations to us, and to t he Hermès men’s store on Madison Avenue for just hanging it quietly on a shelf with some rather more normal. clothes. (I mean, expensive clothes! But everything looks cheap next to this price tag.) The Awl posted a sneakily-snapped image of said price tag but not the shirt itself, explaining that Hermes prohibits. the taking of photographs inside its store. But the item walked the runway in Paris as part of the Hermés men’s. spring collection in June of 2012. Yahoo! Shine confirmed the price with an Hermés sales associate, who said. that, while it was company policy to not give out exact prices, the cost was, “just under $100,000.” It’s a fact that could. make any sane shopper faint—though the typical Hermés customer may not be as fazed (and is most likely not browsing through the racks as one. would do at, say, the Gap). This is certainly not the first time the French fashion house has caused sticker shock. Last year, a solid-gold Birkin bag made to look like crocodile skin was priced at $1,980,034. In 2011, a rare Birkin bag, also made of crocodile skin and featuring an 18-karat white gold and diamond clasp, sold at an auction to an anonymous bidder to what Women’s Wear Daily called a “record” $203,150. Three other crocodile Birkins at that auction sold for $113,525; $95,000; and just over $80,000.” If you have a spare $100,000 laying around you could buy a nice sports car, land in Lekki Phase 1, or you could always just buy a stupid crocodile skin T-shirt.

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