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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 - intro
1:06 - the environmental impact
3:01 - shout out to thredUP!
5:33 - why do people watch these massive closet tours?
6:52 - obnoxious amounts of clothing
7:39 - fashion sense, brand loyalty, and taste?
8:46 - excessive accessories
9:12 - the collection element
10:25 - shoe collections
11:40 - bag collections
13:45 - limited space
15:21 - display your fancy possessions
16:11 - massive, custom built closets
17:30 - bonus rooms / elements within the closets
18:27 - running out of room
18:57 - rich people always getting free stuff
21:06 - do "new money" people like to brag?
23:51 - "I'm not bragging" disclaimers?
25:12 - possible hoarding tendencies? compulsive shopping?
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woo woo, new internet analysis! I've recently been overwhelmed by ridiculously big closet tours, so now you have to experience it with me. (CAPTIONS SHOULD BE UP SOON!) TIME STAMPS BELOW: 0:00 - intro 1:06 - the environmental impact 3:01 - shout out to thredUP! 5:33 - why do people watch these massive closet tours? 6:52 - obnoxious amounts of clothing 7:39 - fashion sense, brand loyalty, and taste? 8:46 - excessive accessories 9:12 - the collection element 10:25 - shoe collections 11:40 - bag collections 13:45 - limited space 15:21 - display your fancy possessions 16:11 - massive, custom built closets 17:30 - bonus rooms / elements within the closets 18:27 - running out of room 18:57 - rich people always getting free stuff 21:06 - do "new money" people like to brag? 23:51 - "I'm not bragging" disclaimers? 25:12 - possible hoarding tendencies? compulsive shopping?
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Hey I think a good video would be to explore neo pronouns and their usage on the internet ect- it’s super prevalent for today and many people are upset or confused by them!
Thank you Tiffany! I love your content. I strongly suggest/ would like to see Jeffree Star completely removed from videos, even if it is relevant to the topic or hes the perfect example. People say he’s “uncancelable” but he needs to be gone from the public eye. He’s a terrible example of humanity and shouldn’t be an “inspo” to anyone, imo . Thanks again for the amazing videos, these must take so much time to research and edit!!
SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT. We need to stop "aspiring" to be fancy hoarders. Just because it's organized and expensive, doesn't mean it's not a problem.
Love you channel girl!
yes!! my thoughts exactly
I watch them but not because I aspire to have so much stuff, but because with essentially unlimited money, they're collecting expensive junk. There's no sense of style or curation - it's everything under the sun
Yup like it's hoarding but in fancier package
So incredibly wasteful.
"What's something that is classy if you're rich and looked down on if you're poor?" It's called "collecting" if you're rich, and "hoarding" if you're poor.
well said
How do the wealthy shame other people? "It's in poor taste".
Or "investing."
I mean, technically if you can't afford a big collection of something it's not a very good thing cause that's gonna be really bad for you in the long run.. if you CAN afford all of it and then some it wouldn't appeae as bad but I do get your sentiment.. a bunch of rich people DEFINITELY pretend their hoarding is just collecting
Literally said this as I was watching. Just like gambling is looked down upon but buying stocks is ok.
This is basically the modern day human equivalent to a dragon sitting on a hoard of useless gold.
This comment is underrated.
Let’s make a new term. “Smauging”
Love that image, so accurate! I ll keep that in mind, thank you!
That was so good and perfect! Exactly what it is even from a personal perspective. There’s only a handful of things I actually use bc I’m too lazy to wash an excessive amount of clothes smh. (Every spring I do donate clothes tho and I’m buying less, so progress.)
No: Birkins & Kelly's are INVESTMENTS that you can use. Birkins appreciate faster than gold & the stock market.
Closet tours are fun to watch. You think about all the things you would buy if you had millions of dollars. But when you realize that something as materialistic as a bag could pay for your mom’s breast cancer treatment, it burns a deep feeling of injustice. It makes you feel like your life is worth less than nothing.
God, yes. Definitely. It's so disgusting how those people are living in a whole different reality. No shame.
The issue with your argument is that there is no (zero) connection between their shoe collection and your moms breast cancer. Even if they bought no shoes at all your mom would still have breast cancer. The real problem is that you are envious and want to be in their shoes (pardon the pun, lol)
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They're not even fun. Most of these rich people sound obnoxious when they talk about their clothes, and their clothes are usually very ugly with a designer brand stamped on it
Yes these people fucking gross me out tbh
Was going to ask why they would ever want a “retail feel” to their closet because that would sound miserable to me but then realized it’s because most of them have probably never worked a retail job LOL
their idea of retail is very different as well. they’re not shopping at h&m or target, they’re shopping at those beautiful prada or chanel stores that have a very different environment
@@aimee-hyj but are still pretty much horrible to work at. 🥲
@@smalltalklevelzwei5840 well, they'll never have to see that part of it because they'll never have to work a retail job
Even their high end real free is a souless place where your feet ache and you play happy nice with randos.... oh kinda like these tours. These women are playing store every day.
increase the retail feel of the experience by hiring a handful of teenagers and young adults to walk around and look stressed
When you said "most people would love to have a decent sized closet"... meanwhile, I'm in New York and would love to have A closet 😭
Mina! :D
I love your channel 💖
Id like to have more than just a dresser
My whole apartment is the decently sized closet 😢
Mina! I love your videos! 💕💕
Jeffree Starr saying that when he was broke he would buy a purse worth his whole month’s rent gives me Carrie Bradshaw saying that when she first moved to New York and was broke she would sometimes buy the latest issue of Vogue instead of food because she felt it “fed her more” vibes
Yessss totally agree
im like 99% sure that’s just an eating disorder
@@nikkilol lol yeah
a mindful shopping youtuber once said "me practically having the money in my bank account doesn't mean that I can afford it" and it's so true. if you can't buy an unnecessary item without making sacrifices, you unfortunately can't afford it. I'm not trying to shame people who save up for a designer bag, but it really changed my perspective. luxury brands are living off of people pretending they can afford them.
The difference between hoarders and "collectors" is money
Ah damn had the same thought just now
There is a you tuber call Curiousity Inc. who bought a hoarder’s house who was fashionista. Packed to the gills with boxes and crates full of vintage clothes. There was a few garbage bags in the attic eave that were full of 1970 Dianne Von Furstenberg wrap dresses. They had an auction. Of the jewelry they found….$300,000. Three moving vans full of clothes all sold to one vintage seller. Unfortunately the woman was very petite with size 5 feet. Designer stuff but also couture because her father was a tailor.
AMEN
I would say a collection is stored well, clean, and well maintained. A horde is unorganized, dirty, in a pile, has holes, broken.
@@AM.000 nope. That's just the impression you've been given about hoarders from all those shows. Not all hoarders have dirty environments
Random but this green makes your eyes POP
Her eyes are so pretty!
IKR I keep just getting mesmerized by her eyes lol
She is literally one of the prettiest people I’ve seen in my life
i was gonna just comment her eyes are sharp and piercing they’re just so pretty
She is so pretty and this shade of green really flattered her
To quote Drew Gooden “Rich people have bad taste”
@Tara nice one!
They really do.
As proven literally every time Balenciaga releases a new collection these days. I legit think they're just trolling their customers now.
Some of the worst outfits I've ever seen are on Bling Empire, and I live in Vancouver, where there are tons of rich Asians.
Mr Gooden is such a funny fella too
Geez, this is just one example of why no one needs to be this rich. After a certain amount of money, people don't know what to do with it and end up just buying more than they could ever use. So gross.
There really should be a cut off- when you become a billionaire, you're not allowed more money. The money automatically goes to public schools, social services (which is really underfunded) etc
@@user-jb7tq7ko7e If I ever become a billionaire I'm going to buy the smallest possible house and own the least amount of stuff possible to make a point.
@@allisonskitchen4420 i hope you also use the money for the good of the earth instead of going to space lol
And? As long as they spend the money they are keeping other people employed.
@@chhavisharma7338 Yes, by burying it in a hole in the ground so it can fertilize a tree.
The most irritating thing for me is definitely that the more money you have the more free things you get. Completely opposite of how society should be
What Color is your Bugatti? Are u rich now
The fact that those ugly purses are the same price as a HOUSE, BAFFLES me. I don’t think we realize HOW RICH the top 1% is until we see these freaking closet tours. But then again... I’m out here daydreaming about having a Steinway and Sons piano one day. Not buying a house, just a piano for me thx.
Aww, I hope you get your piano someday. I would like a house though, I would literally saw off my own arm to have a house lol
The piano is dope though, it's art. Unless you don't play, then you're on the list 🤬
@@5thgearouttahere of course I play. I’m in love with piano. I would love my Steinway more than my first born lmao
I’m not really interested in clothes, cars, or any other “luxury” items. But my one rich fantasy is having a large room with nothing in it but a huge grand piano! That’d be fun.
@@peterg7764 I can't play but imagine doing that, and having the conversion that records the real key movements of professional musicians. A piano just playing itself while you chill 😎
It’s really sad to see how the wasteful lifestyles have been romanticized in our culture
It's why so many people idolize the trumps
Exactly. Especially in a world where there is so much poverty. This past week I was watching videos on KZhead about people that live in extreme poverty in the Phillipines. The videos left me in shock. These people are so desperate for food that they collect and eat food leftovers from trash bags. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe you have people like JLO with a closet full of jeans that she might only wear once. I remember years ago, her saying that she wouldn't let her twins wear designer clothes twice. Disgusting.
@@jo_verabradleyfan4743 Do you have the links to those videos? I'm from the Philippines and I always like to see how the world views our poverty. Especially since it's so commonplace here but so foreign to others.
@@caoisekamay1175 kzhead.info/sun/rK-gj66Iaqxnomw/bejne.html I watched this one
@@jo_verabradleyfan4743 I live in a poor country and all I can say about these celebrities is that it's really not their fault. Even if they give to charities, the money most often never gets to the people whom it is ment for. There's a lot of greed and hatred in this world that even some of the less fortunate people whom you give money to hate you for it.
What really grinds my gears with these closets is that they tend to organise everything by colour and then you end up with a whole rack of brown shoes, which are all essentially the same shoe multiplied by 12, who needs that many brown shoes
I didn't notice that, you're totally right
Honestly if I could I would wear the same brown shoes forever, I hate picking new stuff 😅Same for clothes, id gladly always have the same stuff. i just hate shopping for clothes or shoes but i have neither the money nor space to do something like that: get multiple when i find something that is nice and practical
A woman who's never been grocery shopping: "You can wear these super high heels to the grocery, whatever."
But she does go to the grocery in that. I know it sounds like a joke, but it's a fact.
@Everything Of Indian Cinema. but wouldn't it just be uncomfortable? especially if it's been a while since you got groceries so there's a lot you need to get
@Everything Of Indian Cinema. haha, I'll have to give it a try sometime
yeah lol.. actually i dont think she ever been to groceries store.. then she would know that she cannot wear these and carry 2 kilos potatos and another one bag of onions lol x)
@Everything Of Indian Cinema. Chill the f out...
When Jamie said “these are useless” and then did that awkward laugh- I think that sums up this concept pretty nicely
God, her fake laugh makes me really uncomfortable 😖
Yeah even she realises she's just a thoughtless spender but flexing.
My materialistic goal is to have a small house with a huge vegetable garden, lilac bushes, rain barrels and compost bins. I basically want to be the ultimate hippie.
Lol same... literally in my wildest dreams, that's what I imagine. A cute little house that I can clean easily by myself, probably a dog and a cat, maybe a couple of horses
The hubs and I want to build ourselves a “hobbit hole” .. grass covered subterranean cottage with skylights and max cozy vibes, plus lots of space for plants and a few rescue farm animals 🖤✨
What a dream 😍🥰
Me too! I just ultimately want to produce enough energy to sell back to the grid, grow my own food and live a quiet simple life on my own without having to work. Like be able to walk away from daily verbal abuse and know that it won't lead me into being destitute.
Do I see a hippy culture revival in the future, like again? 🤔 But I think this thread is a shoutout to cottage core life ✌️
This video just made me realize that I actually don’t want to be rich. I think I will be more than happy with a middle-class lifestyle, this seems overwhelming. As much as I want to be able to get more clothes, I think I just want more money to curate a closet with higher-quality items. A large house seems way too much to deal with.
me too . for example with shoes rather than getting millions in multiple colours i would rather just have like 3/4 pairs of basic staple shoes such as white trainers, black boots and maybe some converse and then just wear that like all the time. It seems so stressful honestly to live with so much stuff everywhere and watch dust just develop lmao
Tbh I don't think there's much of a big deal with being rich unless you start getting into that "I need to show off" mentality. Many rich middle class people don't bother showing off because it's normal for them to have money so they even forget they've money. You'd forget it also. And once you're close to death you could just give that money to charity or smth
The only closet tour I’ve ever admired was my aunt’s, she has a walk in closet that’s separated into sections, casual everyday and also really glamorous vintage stuff that’s well loved and have a story behind it. Like my great grandmother’s hand beaded flapper dress, rows of well worn leather pumps that still look amazing etc. I don’t get the intense desire to have all new shiny things that have never and will never be worn. Outfits are beautiful not only cause it suits our taste, but it’s also because of the memories that we associate with it.
Wow, that sounds so interesting. Clothing with a story behind it is definitely the best ((:
I just find it shocking that these people, who are expected to like, never wear the same thing twice, their stylists haven't started introducing the concept of renting to all of their clients. like as a fashion nerd, I totally understand wanting to own pieces you have connections to and having archival fashion pieces, but if you are just wearing something once to wear it, RENT IT MY DUDE?! Why on earth aren't these stylists doing this..
Joshua Hodgson Stylists work with designers & designers need us to buy their stuff (at retail price if possible).
@@terriej123 also, they usually make sure to have it altered so the clothes fit them perfectly, meaning they wouldn't be able to rent them to other people.
Actually celebrities “borrow” clothes from designers all the time, especially jewelry for red carpets.
When you have so much friggin money that you have nothing else to do with it, why would you go through the inconvenience of having to wait for your item to arrive, when you can just immediately have it from it being stored somewhere in your closet?
Stylists are actually the ones renting or borrowing, mostly directly from designers and brands, but celebrities/influencers themselves are those who want to own that fancy stuff because it shows to others how rich and succesful they are.
these closets are bigger than my entire apartment 🙂
The truth hurts 😭😭😭
Their closets are bigger than my house and school combined-
Their bigger than the house I live in with four other adults
Yep my apartment is less than 300 sq feet ...
I wonder how they decide what to wear, do they wake up 2 hours earlier just to walk through their closet?
All I can think of is how guilty I would feel to have the world’s largest private collection of Hermès bags when I could literally be opening and funding homeless shelters across the globe.
Exactly what I thought. Thousands on their state arw sleeping outside in the cold or heat amd these out of touch un compassionate people spend too much on themselves. Not against splurging abit on yourself wjen you're rich but this is just exasperating
I hope you spend your hole paycheck on every single homeless person you've on the street. Don't feel guilty for yourself. Be proud. Lol
You think homeless shelters or giving the homeless money would actually improve something?
same i dont understand how they dont feel so guilty that they live such a life of luxury when some people have nothing at all, are they seriously that out of touch with reality? i guess so
@@carlzune6626 Shelters keep people from freezing to death. Okay with you?
The way she framed the scarves is actually really pretty
I’m sitting here, thinking about how all of these “closets” (is it still a closet when it is an entire suite/wing?) are a dressed up, organized version of hoarding. Imagine my surprise when you shouted me out for talking about hoarding! 😅 Thanks for the support, and thanks for watching all those closet tours so that I never have to. 🖤🙏🏾
That's a perfect comparison.
Loads of lifestyle trends are just gentrified poverty. What is a tiny house but a trailer with a good PR rep?
I was thinking about yours and kim's videos the whole time. 😆
When poor people have too much stuff it's hoarding. When you're rich it's collecting.
Omg, angel!!! I was thinking the same thing 😳 “This just looks like hoarding but make it rich”
"i'm not good at cosplaying old money" has me fucking dead
Yesss, I love your videos!
😂😂😂
Such a quote
Some of them are so disconnected from reality. “Hahahaaaaa it’s not that bad, a Loboutin shoeeee, you can wear it anywhere! Useless bag for 10k, look how I made a funny, hahaaaa”. The flexing on the poor is what feels disgusting.
exactly. I'm so done with that.
Why do you care if someone is spending money? It creates economic activity, in other words jobs, somewhere in the world. Are you opposed to people having jobs?
The fact that they can even give 'tours' of closets like people can give tours in museums is a problem in and of itself.
Not really jealous is also problem
Interesting point. I guess if someone is a collector, it would make sense. There are rich people who collect art, so why not clothes? Honestly, if I was insanely wealthy, I would curate a collection of 20th century clothing and make my entire home like a museum for those pieces. The majority of people doing these 'tours' are not collecting anything genuinely though, especially not the items filling their expansive 'closets'.
@@jamie2167 if u u are jealous what are the motivations to be better what Color is your Bugatti 😂😂
The Himalayan Birkin looks identical to the piles of unsellable second hand vajazzled bags in charity shops and it's like an Emperor's New Clothes level of cognitive dissonance when these celebs pretend it's nice
This!!!
i'm just blown by the wording of this comment, it's a SEARING burn!
such a good comparison! it's pretty much exactly like the Emperor's New Clothes
"vajazzled" I'm ded
It really is a hideous bag!!
These closets show off that cold, sterile aesthetic that rich people seem to all be obsessed with so well. Millions of dollars and you're going to design a mcmansion so devoid of warmth and charm that just looking at it gives me anxiety. I would never.
Yes exactly!!
Okay I feeeeel this. I get so uncomfortable looking a super nice house because ik id never fit in lol no thanks
YES!! I always said if i was rich i would buy a cute little apartment with a balcony, and a nice kitchen, i feel so lost in big houses, especially if you dont have a big family to actually USE it and make it liveable and warm
Literally I don’t know how they feel comfortable in their own house
I thought the same thing like why have a big house and I'm never going to use half of it.... like unless my family will live idk... my mom taught me that having less is more
On the beginning you talk about how you're not a minimalist. Could you do a video about how minimalism is not accessible to the poor and why it propagates an idea that is only attained by the rich? Like, "you only need one pair of shoes", but one "good" pair of shoes cost 5x the price of a normal pair of shoes that will stop being good in a year.
Going to the thrift store is I think a lot more minimalist because there is a link between it and environmentalism and no resources had to be used for you to buy it. Minimalist brands just use green washing. Buying new will always be worse.
@@tomallsop yeah, but a thrift store is indeed, for the wealthy too. I'm from a Latin American country and we don't have those stores so no way of buying second hand clothes/furniture or be a minimalistic person. Sadly, everything has a but and its more complicated that it should be:(
Minimalism is absolutely accessible to the poor. I would know from experience. I’m not quite sure where you’re coming from. How much would you consider a reasonable price for a pair of shoes for your budget? I can guarantee I can find you a good quality pair of shoes within that budget that will last
I am average income person, introducing minimalism was the best thing I did in 2019. I genuinely saved 50% of my money which I used to spend on buying clothes, books, shoes every month. Dont go for the American version of minimalism. Check the Japanese way which is really interesting and plausible. Also the stress of cleaning up was completely gone.
@@alexandraclavijo8149 there is a difference between trendy thrift stores where you still pay 40 dollars for jeans or “genuine” thrift stores. I think just buying less clothing is always a positive change and I dont think that beating yourself up for not being able to get the title “minimalist” because of your circumstances is necessary!!
So happy to see the younger generation ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT EVERYTHING. Keep doing that.
$1,500 each on shoes....and I'm butt hurt having to pay $150 for docs (still expensive in my eyes), but that's like a small sliver in their wallets 😂🤯
Lol I bought $15 “fake Docs”combat boots from Walmart and I rlly like them but my friends stay roasting me over it🤣 I’m like look I paid 1/10th of the price and they doin just fine leave me be damn🤣😂 Kind of shows people at all levels put a high emphasis on brand name products for the sake of them being brand name
@@soulsearcher7077 What’s the brand name? :3 (Totally asking for a friend)
@@user-zz2dr3up7j the shoe company‘s called “time and tru” lol. they’re pretty good, especially for the price but do crease fairly quickly in comparison to leather/vegan leather shoes. it doesn’t show up too much on the black ones tho lol. hope your ~friend~ likes them!
@@soulsearcher7077 i remember that brand! payless used to sell their shoes a lot lol, still got some shoe boxes from them from years ago
@@soulsearcher7077 I remember brand names being such a huge deal in school...and then we grew up and were broke and had to pay for our own stuff. Suddenly Walmart and Target clothes look just fine. 😆
In a town in Sweden that I lived in a while back had a "Clothing Library". Was very popular among us University students. You'd pay for a library card, like a subscription, and then you could borrow clothes from the library to your hearts content. They also had and operated their own dry cleaner. I know people borrowing amazing dresses etc for everything from formal parties to baby showers and the like. A genius idea!
That sounds amazing :o
That's awesome
I would love that!!!
Tool libraries are a thing too! Communities can share things like sewing machines, lawn mowers, etc.
Härligt koncept! Vilken stad?
The fact that she frames the pieces she loved and was gifted is actually really sweet. It's very interesting how perspective changes when you have space and money
I collect teapots, but , my collection is only seven and that’s enough.
That's kinda wholesome ngl
There are some absolutely adorable teapots out there
Cottagecore goals 🤩
Same! I have 3 vintage full sets, 6 teapots (one is a TARDIS😍), and 32 teacups with saucers..... Maybe I'm a hoarder, but I'll chilling out okay
Cute !! And seven is a good number
I will NEVER understand why the Uber rich houses are cold and unfeeling, when they have to money to commission a literal castle with a library tower and secret passages.
because when u get that rich, ur entire existence becomes an advertisement trying to hustle and keep that wealth, status and connections. You become a billboard decorated with stuff you dont need to impress ppl u dont like and basically kill whatever that is true to you and stuff that corpse with whatever comes on the empty trends bandwagon. Old money is obsessed with hiding that wealth because they know the dangers of keeping all of that for no work except inheritance, and New money is obsessed with telling everyone that they started from the bottom now they here, which is the reason for these obnoxious closets and the middle class is obsessed with acquiring mass produced material things to pass as new money, which is why we have shows trying to make us aspire to be glorified hoarders. the best video explaining that is Opulence by Contrapoints
One hundred percent true because I would legit love a castle with a giant library and secret passages, it's kind of my dream of what winning the lottery would look like
Right? Not a single secret passage, like really??
This doesn't explain it but someone pointed out to me one that more expensive brands tend to feature subtler colours - e.g. olive, navy, beige - and budget conscious brands tend to have a lot more vibrant colours - candy red, yellow, sky blue. I can think of examples in apparel and food for example. It always sort of struck me as rich folk saying "Oh. Having fun or a personality is for the poor people" or something like that.
@@spriddlez Its because these brands are leeching off the new money desperately trying to pass as old money who are subtler and lifeless to hide their wealth.
As an adult, I started shopping a lot. Even after I acquired a whole new closet basically, I kept shopping. It took me a while to realize that it was a reaction to being poor and not having nice things growing up. Being aware of that now, and already having a decent wardrobe, I've changed to only shopping when I need something.
Same here. I rarely had new clothes growing up. Most of the times I wore something others grew up from. When I started to earn money myself I was shopping sooo much, I couldn't stop buying clothing. Fortunately, I could stop myself. Now I spend mindfully, buy only ethical pieces of clothing and only the ones I really need.
This is so true. As soon as I started making my own money I wasted everything on clothes and expensive bags. I think the key is maturing and realize that stuff is not going to get you anywhere in life.
@@DD-wx1vl I should have said, "when I became an adult and started making money." But yeah, it just hit me that I was trying to fill this void, but no matter how much I bought, I felt like I needed more. I was never satisfied. Part of it was also, like Tiffany said, was that I had this deep seated fear that I wouldn't have those things if I didn't buy them right then and there, or that the things I bought would go away somehow. Anyway, I'm in a much better place now, and I hope everyone going through this is able to come out of it.
I’m happy for you
It also took me a while to realize this in myself. Years of deprivation growing up, and years later as an adult.
As a crazy book/manga collector myself (like books in boxes, in closets, on two full length shelves, piled on dressers) I can understand the obsession with organized grandeur to a t. Looking at bookshelf tours used to be something I’d spend endless hours on, and honestly I totally bought into the buying books for the sake of them. It was only when I finally started donating books for space that I realized how many I bought for the sake of them. It opened my eyes to the idea that, even if I wasn’t collecting designer bags, I was still buying into capitalist and consumer culture. It was really eye opening and this video tapped into that feeling a lot
I don't know about y'all but being in a store stresses me out. I can't imagine willingly doing that to my closet
Also "I wanted it to feel like retail" is the weirdest statement ever and the only retail some of them know is luxury stores.
this!
I love being in stores, but I think a massive closet would totally stress me out.
Is it only me or is the himalayan birkin the most ugly thing ever? Can't believe a crocodile had to give its life for that abdomination...
Exactly. And you know they aren’t using the crocodile for anything else. They just used the small part they needed, then dumped it
@@choccymilkconnoisseur2775 literally, they don’t even use all of the skin. Birkin bags are the ugliest bags I’ve seen. It looks like it’s worth 34$ at rainbo
That encrusted diamond buckle is hideous
Ikr its so ugly.
there's like a design/cost graph where things that are cheap are basically neutral because they're almost always designed for practicality, then as they become more expensive you add design flourishes that make the thing more stylish but eventually you just reach an event horizon where you've shoved too much on the thing but kept going and it's obscenely expensive but looks horrendously cheap and tacky.
people literally die because they can’t afford insulin, and rich people are like “hmm. interesting. but you know what the real problem is? i need to buy this bag that costs more than most american homes.”
If these people actually used a tiny portion of their money every month/year to help charitable causes it would help so much, but here I am unemployed and still donating to charities and they just litter the world with their stupid posessions..
@@solsthrash2603 it will be much better if rich people did not philantrophy acts, but not exploit people in the first place... charity exists because of exploitation and need :( take care of yourself
They could sell just ONE of their "investments" and help thousands of people
@Hi My Name Is Watch, this video will soon be littered with those "stop hating and just work harder lmao" comments. What's worse is, plenty of working class ppl claim that these leeches are an "inspiration" to others, that any one of us can make it to that standard of living if we just "try." They buy into the survivor bias but they're not even out of the woods yet themselves.
@@solsthrash2603 How do you know they don’t donate to charitable causes?
Mariah Carey’s shoe collection makes sense. She probably has most of these because she is a performer. A performer who had shows since the 90s.
Hihihi... I am not a rich person, but I do not still have any of my shoes from the 90's. I gave them all away... 😊 Why would a super rich celebrity like Mariah keep such old shoes?
@@marionsudewo8670 memories. Also Mariah Carey was in an abusive relationship for a long time to her first husband. He controlled what she wore and a lot of aspects of her life. After she got divorced from him her style changed. I think she has a lot of shoes and clothes due to that traumatic experience. For her clothes and choosing them are a form of freedom.
@@marionsudewo8670 Because you are not Mariah Carey. You don’t think alike. You do stuff she wouldn’t, and she do stuff you wouldn’t. Dumb comment
@marion sudewo your comment makes no damn sense, so what if you don't have your old shoes?
I think most people have have more shoes than they need. It's just easier to judge the rich.
I’m very late, but I find the whole thing very interesting. My grandmother had hoarder tendencies, because she grew up during war time. Because resources were so scare, she reflected that later in life by hoarding literally everything. It was very sad to watch her mental state deteriorAte, and the hoarding to get worse and worse
I worked with holocaust survivors and they’d hoard food.
my granparents too
honestly, if I had that kind of money, I'd just have my clothes tailor made from high quality materials to my exact liking and knowing the labour will be paid fairly. i don't get what's so great about *brands* and especially flashy logos. flex culture makes me cringe.
That’s what I was thinking! I would search for a seamstress whose creations were my style and keep them working only for me for a ridiculously fantastic salary and benefits. They’d actually get to enjoy their life outside of work.
MOOD!
Absolutely. Unique and high quality pieces all your own. It would be much more ethical and stylish at the same time.
Yeah, I thought about it too. I am a person who heavily dislikes shopping for new stuff, especially if it's because it broke after few months of use. If I buy something I must need it and like it at the same time, I always think twice before purchase. Same goes for clothing. If I had the money, I would rather invest in a seamstress that would do it exactly how I like it and use quality materials that'll last me for a long time. Both of us would benefit - I would give them great salary and benefits, which is good for them and accually etical and I would get great unique clothing I like that'll last.
Exactly!!!!!!!
"they want their closets to look like retail spaces" ohh mine already does!! it looks like a goodwill! the clothes are old and kinda ugly and there's a lotta weird shit in there
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🤣🤣🤣
Mine looks like a thrift store where nothing is sorted out before displaying it. So much of my stuff has holes or stains that won't come out. But I won't throw it out because "maybe I'll get it fixed sometime". But then there are also some gems where you wonder how this cute dress ended up between two torn shirts from 2012.
12:12 "My mom gave these to me and Kendall when we were like... Super babies" Girl! Listening to Kylie talk is mind boggling. Who talks like that?
Someone who did not rely on education for success.
The crazy part is those birkins being stored like precious jewels, when Jane Birkin herself used hers everyday and was so beat up 😂 having an old birkin like that is a style staple I want someday
I think that “celebrity culture” and the paparazzi also have an influence. Celebrities (especially women) have been absolutely evicerated by the media for wearing an outfit twice. That would be terrifying and must have at least a small impact on their habits.
that's a good point!!
I was thinking about this the whole time. I remember once watching a TV show, were the host was basically verbally harassing Selena Gómez for wearing the same clothes more than once (in the span of two years mind you, and it wasn't even for an official event or anything like that). I repeat, she was criticized for wearing her own clothes more than once! This surely must affect them, and influence their decisions when clothes shopping. I agree that it is excessive, but we have to consider the whole picture to fix and tackle this issue: they get critized for wearing clothes/outfits more than once and criticized for owing too much clothes. Obviously, not everyone falls into this category, there are almost always exceptions to the rule, but it is something to consider. Perhaps one solution would be selling/giving away the clothes after?
@@canacana7774 Now that I think about it, I don’t think there is any one way that women are supposed to act and behave. I think some people just like seeing women squirm and anguish trying to adhere to different ways of “being” and seeing them dance trying to cater to everyone. It’s literally a dance in which people are constantly changing the tune.
@@LoveAndSnapple Yes, there is inherent sexism in expecting women to never wear the same thing twice but men can wear the same suit to almost anything, 365 days a year
I will never undertsand how ppl can have such big spaces....like a killer could be chillin with your flip flops and you'd never know...
@Snow White omg really?
Honestly I wouldn't even be surprised
@Snow White honestly? based. where does one apply to this “bling ring?”
@@factsandlogic.8762 hahahshshhsgeh stop
@@factsandlogic.8762 check Mila Tequila's channel, she has a funny retrospective on the bling ring.
I won’t lie, seeing those closets made me squeal a little. The little girl in me says: Omg omg look at all those, I could wear a different outfit each day, try out those accessories, man it look so DANG COOL. Just... man, that look awesome. Having a hundred anything you might want to wear at the tip of your finger, being able to wear whatever you want, being rich enough to do that, it would feel like a dream. The mature sane woman in me says: tf am I gonna do with all that? What the point of owning them if you’re not going to touch more than half of them and use them more than a couple of times? Sure owning a hundred outfits would be nice, but most of them will just go to waste and rot away. I could spend my money on literally anything else and it would likely benefit me and the world in a better way. Charity, food, a decent house, maybe a secret underground bunker for when humanity screws up and Armageddon begins? Anything else would be more useful.
What they have is not just "a hundred" outfits; I would guess it's closer to a thousand, or maybe even more...
You know in all fairness they do use a lot more outfits than the average person. They constantly have events and parties to go to. The tabloids are also very cruel if outfits are repeated.
I'm one of those people that's constantly at war with minimalism and my need to be entertained and collect. I watched this while organising the clear stamps (for papercrafts) that just arrived in the mail. Total "not needed" purchase, total "you have a ton at home already" purchase, BUT also total happiness purchase. And I 100% keep the philosophy you said, that a smaller space makes you more intentional about what you own and where it goes. We live in an apartment, actually upscaling from a cabin house, but I still intentionally confine myself to my office for my things. It keeps me mindful of not just buying to buy, but also allowing me to just "omg so pretty!!" without just piles and piles of stuff.
Jeffree Star is the textbook definition of "money can't buy taste"
Yeah, you only have to look at their mirrors
He's a scene kid tho, so, I kinda like that at least some of his stuff is unique and weird. Having a wall of identical blue jeans or other basic stuff is way more mentally oppressive to me.
'Taste' is very subjective.
@@BetwixtDandD except his.
@@georgeimmanuel3992 that's not how subjectivity works ;)
They are just. Hoarders. But it's socially acceptable because they are rich enough to have the space to store and organize their things.
You made this point more succinctly than I did, 3 weeks before I did haha. *Exactly* this!
Lmao you make a good point, but I think it's worth noting that there are different kinds of hoarding. One entails holding on to things that have sentimental value, from childhood toys, random bric-a-brac and items gifted by people now deceased. There are hoarders who love to collect and recycle bottles and containers, from empty packages that once held makeup to food jars. These are definitely less harmful hoarders. The "hoarders" in this video however, are more influenced by social pressures and a competitive desire for superiority via collection and accumulation of material objects. These people are materialistic, greedy and quite arguably insecure.
@@DobbysStinkySock damn capitalism really dropped a new type of hoarder smh
and yet if someone is just like them but lower class they go on hoarders and are branded as insane
Like being a cocaine addict that has money so supply his habit without stealing from gramma….stealing from children’s future maybe.
I don't mind extravagant homes and wardrobes when they reflect that person's style and taste, even when it doesn't match with my own. I can respect some really ugly choices, if I can see some thought behind it all. I don't like it when it's obvious that the person bought items just because they are expensive or went shopping just to pass some time and doesn't care about what they bought.
11:36 The woman in the video is Heart Evangelista and she is a Filipino entertainer, philanthropist, influencer and fashion icon. She owns that much because she is one of the top fashion icons in the Philippines, and in one of her interviews iirc she said that some of them were given to her by Western brands. (She would buy majority of her clothes of course, because fashion is an art to her.) (P.S and yes, she does also paint)
literally it’s really wasteful for people to have, like, these giant closets and huge amounts of clothes that they’ll probably either never wear or rarely wear. :(
Does it really make sense from investment standpoint though?
@@0912sooli luxury items can get more expensive in the long run because some luxury items are limited edition, made only by a certain creator or is an art piece by its own right.. because yea some luxury items aren't really clothes but rather artpieces hence why they are bizzare looking and minimally functional. It's definitelt an investment where the rich gets richer though
@@kishinumaayumi is it tho
I cleaned houses for a while when I was between jobs and I was also a professional part-time houseplant nanny as a side gig to my last landscape job, and my favorite part was getting to be in the houses of very rich people. Money does not buy you taste, but what I also learned is that very wealthy people typically have a living room they never use and they also love to fill their houses with chairs. So many chairs. An amount of chairs that when you walk in their house you think, "wow I think I can see 20 different chairs in this open concept living space." Also one house had a master bedroom about as big as my entire apartment that was just a queen size bed and a 300 gallon tropical fish tank. I don't miss cleaning houses, but I do miss being basically paid to judge people's interior design choices.
houseplant nanny!! you're a wizard! hahaha but seriously yes, the endless unused rooms. what is the point??
Hahaha... so true 😄
If my apartment is on fire, I grab my folder with SSN, Birth certificate etc.+ my wallet 1) hotel room 2) It's difficult to prove your identity!
Same. If I had to leave my home quickly. I'd grab my kid and my folder which also has our social security cards/birth certificates. Plus materialistic things can be replaced. Family cannot.
i understand the “loving fashion vs loving brands” thing because in one, the person has a genuine passion and excitement for each piece, and they’ve intentionally and carefully acquired things like a true collector, while in the other it’s just getting all the things as quickly as possible
Let’s build a 3 story closet to host my CHARITY events.. how about actually giving that money to charity? 🤨
Lmao Right?? when a “charity” event costs like 100k to put together and they’re like “wow guys we raised $20,000!”
you are globally rich, when is your auction?
@@tiffanyferg 😂 "Oof!"
some of them do , just to get tax write offs and for PR
“You can wear them to the grocery store” ... Honey something tells me you’re not doing your own grocery shopping
I think she was being sarcastic? or not haha
also Heart is a really nice person she decluttered her clothes to start a project that will give tablets to student to help with their online learning (sorry for bad english)
She actually wore those kinds of shoes on a grocery store. Someone took a photo of her at the grocery
imagine wearing heels to the grocery store
@@MsRabblerouser I have done that for no reason and it does hurt a lot. High heels are for special events not grocery.
Definite yes to one of your questions. I grew up poor-ish. Rich enough to have food and clothes and toys so not badly off, but poor enough that allowance didnt really exist. I rarely, if ever, bought anything for myself more exciting than candy. When I grew up and started working and quit having parents monitor my spending, I started trying to catch up on stuff I never got as a kid. We were always a "necessities only" family and I basically went "screw necessities; I like toys and jewelry and art and no one ELSE is getting me fun things." I am a collector. Not a hoarder because I can and do declutter, but there's enough of a FOMO aspect to my spending that I put myself in counseling to try to reshape my shopping into something that will actually make me happy instead of just causing guilt and stress. Can 100% believe that these celebs have the same problem. But with no reason to worry about food and shelter, their spending doesn't cause guilt or worry so they have no incentive to change their habits. And if they are given things of course they'll keep them because you can't feel guilty about presents. It's not your fault you got them, right?
I actually liked how she had her scarfs framed. They are beautiful! She can appreciate them more that way! Especially since they were gifts!
Minimalism to me literally is being conscious of my purchases and items and what they do for me, being purposeful with them. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy shopping and have my own Knick knacks and such, just that I’m thoughtful about the ones I do get
Love this
ah, being purposeful w your spendings is a v good tip for money management :D
Agreed. Minimalism is the way to go.
I like clothes but can never understand the obnoxious, large closets. Like what a waste, imagine all the things that have never been worn or only worn once! Yeah, it’s your money, do whatever you want, but imagine the impact you’ll leave behind
At least they are inside of a closet and not in a landfill somewhere. Those clothes are already made and if not purchased they are going to end up thrown out
Forreal. And when something goes out of style or they want to make some room, most likely instead of donating it, they’ll just throw it away 😕
Same! Usually looking at clothes when I'm at the mall kind of soothes me (yup I'm def a product of capitalism). But seeing all those clothes in the closet stressed me the fuck out. Too much of a good thing
@@carmenpeguero580 The larger scheme of it is supply and demand tho. So long as there is rich ppl willing to pay any price for a material item just cuz someone somewhere gave it value and claimed you are the coolest person if you own this piece, there will always be more and more and more production. In turn, harming the environment and exploiting the laborers just so the ppl up top will be able to call themselves cool.
@@alyssapinon9670 same!
"My parents didn't love me and there's a black void where my self-image should be! Look at all this stuff that reassures me that I matter!" I feel sorry for these people. ThanksForPosting!
you feel sorry for them, yet you mock it?
@@thisisme4074 I wasn't mocking them: I was rephrasing what their behavior means in psychological health terms. I feel sorry for people so perversely raised that they have no identity and must project their identity onto the act of accumulating stuff, yes. They're incredibly aberrant, and in a way that is self-destructive; I don't pity externally destructive aberrations.
Heart Evangelista likes to buy second hand designer brands that is why some of the comments said that she is humble (But I don’t get it because it’s still expensive). She has a obnoxious amount of clothes, bags, and shoes (which is so unnecessary) but she is very kind hearted because she donated a lot to people who are in need here in the philippines especially during the pandemic. Unlike other celebrities here 🙄 she is also creative! She painted her expensive bags to cover up the stains. Overall she is rich but also not that detached to reality.
Definitely, it's easy to hate on these people and some of them are not really unfounded, but most of Heart's closet is a lot smaller than most of these and her content is much more than her closet.
She s"(heart) one of those victims of Material Trapping of the ultra Rich. She's nowhere near to a Flex Culture. For some Filipinos she's very rich (the Gap between the Rich and the Poor is 1 Percent)...but for Americans and Europeans, she's pretty basic.
@@ryanp.7955 I agree!
She just seems to actually be passionate about fashion in a way that everyone else in this video is not. Like even when she wears designer, she buys the items with the label on the inside, not stamped all over the outside to prove how much it cost.
rich people are so weird sometimes.
That's a very nice way to put it.
Pretty much, they are spoiled children. If they do not have an item asap, they will lose it.
nah they're not weird. they're stupid.
*all the time
I swear being rich does something to the chemical makeup of your brain lol
and i cant be the only one that finds it all so unbelievably TACKY right? like the shoes... its all the same high heel pair just repackaged in increasingly uglier and shinier colors
Don't forget the increased price tag
Basically
I’ve been thinking the whole video about how these closets are set up to be a kind of personal, interactive museum (of fancy expensive stuff you can wear). Like a shrine to your own consumerism. But in a way, I’ve realized that’s probably better than the rich people who do collect art, rare books, and antiquities for a private museum. At least there’s no great cultural loss to these closets.
Honestly very honestly, as an actress (and I’m not speaking for everyone) I get gifted so many things most of it are expensive to throw away. Add to that, each time I’m shooting a new character, I get to keep all of the characters’ outfits. At one point a year ago, going through my closet was depressing that I decided to donate about 60% of it (half of items still had tags on them). As for the getting ready area, yes it’s a necessity when you’re a celebrity .. not because you’re bougie but because you don’t want a “glam team” of hairdresser, makeup artists, a stylists & their assistants into your own private bedroom to get you ready. Great video btw, nobody should feel pressured to own certain things because famous ppl do.
I want one of those bookcases where you pull a secret book and it leads to a secret room like in the Addams Family and then it's a huge secret library like the one Beast gives Belle. That's my opulent dream.
This
yess
Agreed
Yes!
Is anyone going to talk about how the “Himalayan Birkins” look like they’ve already been through a house fire?
I've noticed its an ugly looking purse. The alligator skin gives it a blotchy whitish-yellowish appearance that really doesn't suit my tastes at all. Sometimes, I think that these luxury labels that market to the rich really don't have to design something that looks good, just something that is expensive and eye catching so that the proud owner can show it off.
They’re ugly oversized grandma bags.
I really hope crocodiles didn't die for these bags and that it's just price gouged fake skin.
@@ThexDynastxQueen they did unfortunately.
@@boopthenose9704 NOOOOO! WHY DID YOU TELL ME?! 😭😭😭
When I come home from thrifting I feel like I need to get rid of as much stuff as I purchased. It stressed me out to have “too much” stuff. It makes moving truly dreadful lol
I have too much stuff and it is my biggest source of stress. I literally can't see my floor and I need to get rid of stuff if I want a happier life, lol
9:06 as someone who needs prescription sunglasses, I am more than content with my one pair of sunnies because hot damn those things are not cheap. My glasses are the only things that I own which are designer brands.
Not me calculating prices in US dollars to my home country's currency... I'm actually speechless and utterly disgusted. Sooo insane.
I'm disgusted too. UGH.
I'm not ready to expose myself to that horror
One of those ‘cheaper’ bags could literally help build a decent house in my country.
Yikes
Katya? Where is Trixie? If this is the "right" Katya I just want to say I love watching you & Trixie. You are both beautiful.
not only do they waste millions on things they don't need, they also waste money on terrible fashion choices which is just so obnoxious from a fashion lover stand point ahahha
Ikr? So Artless. It makes me nuts. Knowing how many truly creative visionary people who would deploy those resources in exciting and inspired ways... instead all the resources are funneled to a tiny few dingbats. And boy do they gatekeep. Reverse meritocracy.
@@juliettedemaso7588 yeah, there are so many better ways of spending money than buying ugly Gucci t shirts and LV bags
It's so nice to read these comments and know that there are others out there like me! 🙃
Right? So many high-end, obscenely expensive clothes and bags are HIDEOUS.
They pay hundreds of dollars for luxury items that they really only find appealing because of its name but would they even like it if it were the exact same design but made by cheaper brands? Thr rich will keep feeding power into luxury brands because they want something to signify their wealth without considering their personal aesthetics and it’s sad...
So I could either buy a 5 bedroom house or a bag that I can't even fit a sock into... hmmm tough choice.
The whole thing about McMansions is that they are rarely furnished well. Like middle class people blow the check on the house so lots of rooms have like 2 couches and a coffee table, but you can do literal cartwheels and have to walk 15ft to touch the nearest wall.
Is there a level above “first world problems”? Because this is that
I think it is called "Champagne Problems" for cases like this.
Zeroth world problem
1%ers problems?
These names😂
Yeah, it's called rich people problems
"You have to remember this is 62 years of collection" - says Kris Jenner to justify her absurrrrrrrrd overconsumption. Also, is she expecting us to believe she started amassing this collection when she was like, 5 years old? Um, no. Seriously though, we need to stop aspiring to and normalizing this! It's not a collection to have a million clothes that you'll never wear more than once or fifty drawers full of eyeshadow palettes that will go bad before you can hit pan or the latest electronics every time something new is released. It's just wasteful.
So True!
"We can afford to buy new, but our planet cannot." I read that somewhere and think about it often.
Shes 65 meaning she started collecting at 3 years old
@@sapphire3793 She did not start collecting Gucci bags, *adult women's clothing* and whatever else is in her absurdly huge closet at 3 years old. She only said that to justify her overconsumption in a short period of time.
@@Kelbel5995 I was being sarcastic. sorry it's hard to sound sarcastic through youtube comments
If I were rich, I'd totally have a gigantic library filled with tons of books I may never get to and expensive first editions of my favorites. Of course, there would be a rolling library ladder so I could go full Belle.
To be honest, the K clan are absolutely considered new money, despite the 2nd generation and now already a 3rd generation being born into that wealth. And the big difference between old and new is in the values each of them hold and showcase. Yes, both are obnoxious and exploitative in their own way, but a lot of what old money values is just... out of the window with new money. Elegance, manners, a good education, being well rounded and knowledgeable, being entrepreneurial, socially and politically involved, charitable, in general not being a hot mess in public, that's something that is distinctly only present in old money families. Flex culture is considered extremely trashy and not done, and it wouldn't surprise me if there have been tons and tons of trustfund babies who had their allowance cut off because daddy or grandpa didn't like them acting a fool on Instagram. Money talks, and very loudly sometimes, but true wealth whispers, so I'm mostly hoping that new money learns to stfu and move along, taking their tacky taste and classless behavior with them. I much prefer the old money folk just staying in their lane and not annoying the rest of the world with their presence, especially on social media.
It's almost criminal to see how expensive some of that useless crap is...like how do you sleep at night knowing you have a closet the size of a city block while people are getting evicted from their homes and plunging into crippling debt from medical bills or college tuition?? Profound lack of empathy tbh
I'm not defending them. But It's not their fault that someone is getting evicted and having debt. That is guilt tripping and it's not healthy. That logic is like "I should feel ashamed that I eat 3 times a day and can afford some snacks if I wanted to because some people need to starve to earn"
Mystery Meme i get where you’re going here but I think eating is a human need and having a humongous closet is not. There has to be a line somewhere where it’s not morally right anymore to consume so much, even if that’s all gifts it rubs me the wrong way. This planet has limited resources 😔
@@mysterymeme6141 Most of this stuff was made with slavery so them buying it causes people to starve.
@@mysterymeme6141 I feel like these two comparisons don’t exactly match up? I’m not sure how to explain but there is a problem with it
I think the solution to social and economic issues is government investment and grassroots level community organizing. Eradicating or greatly reducing homelessness, eliminating most student debt and having a universal medicare system does not mean people will not have mansions and luxury goods. It seems counterproductive to link them and makes it seem like there's a zero-sum game going on between the rich and the poor and a gain for one necessitates a life altering change to the other.
Realistically, 80% of what is in a celebrity's closet is gifted to them. Especially an A-list Celebrity. Jlo did not buy all those jeans- designers, stylists and sometimes boutique owners will give it to them whether they request it or not.
Can they not then give them away? Maybe to friends or family if they don't want to straight up donate and they know that there's little likelihood of them wearing them. It still doesn't make sense to me to keep hundreds of jeans.
@@nbucwa6621 Yeah that can but that is how they end up with more jeans. JLo gets a pair of jeans and gives it to a friend (who is probably also rich). Jlo's friend then takes the opportunity to get rid of something in her closet and gifts Jlo something else, and so the cycle continues. The best things these people could do is either say no or just continuously donate the items. Maybe they can create their own thrift shops XD
All those Birkins are not gifts!!!
they should do giveaways! Redistribute that shit. instead of just letting your really expensive and luxurious bags unused in your closet
@@YingofDarkness giving something to a person who already has a hoarding problem isn't sustainable, yes, but it's also not the only option for rehoming your stuff
I think the old money vs new money thing is ultimate classism because you cannot become old money. You’re either born into it or you’re not. It means that even those who manage to drag themselves up by their bootstraps (using the common rhetoric here, not my own), they still cannot cross the class divide
I think another factor that goes into this is that celebrities and influencers are "expected" to wear new things to certain events. Like for example, you can't wear the same thing to the Met Gala twice, or if you just wear sweatpants going out, you'll get called out for it. Other than just clothing, I think there might exist a certain public expectation for you to look as rich as you are and to never look the same because you have the money to afford more things
Not Tiffany literally putting out a trigger warning before mentioning Jeffree Star 💀💀
It was necessary.
@@elephantshrew6304 very!! 😂
The only person who has right to have a gigantic closet is Barbie
Underrated 🙌
Because she actually wears all those outfits 🤣
Barbie needs it
and london tipton
😂😂😂
I know being organized is helpful, but I enjoy the chaos of my home and having books stacked, plants everywhere, pillows, knick knacks. To each their own and power to the person who loves a good organized space!
Some rich, influential person should start a closet pledge. “ I pledge to auction my entire closet for charity.” Then they can go shopping some more.
The problem is can u afford one of them 😂😂😂.what Color is your Bugatti
Wtf is this weird trolling and wtf is a bugatti
@@riabouchinska I think you are taking it wrong. Just a humorous comment. A Bugatti is a very expensive and beautiful car.
Can't help but think about how many people they could help with all that wasted money... I just think if you're struggling to find new ways to spend your money, you have too much of it. And that doesn't mean they aren't deserving of enjoying their success, but you have to question at what point does all this 'stuff' stop being fulfilling. Whilst there are people that can't afford to feed their children, these celebrities have millions in assets just collecting dust.
I've often wondered similar thoughts. Even years ago flipping through magazines seeing wealthy people with shoes and purses that cost more than I pay in rent. Maybe for people like Paris and the Kardashian/Jenners growing up without experiencing financial struggles they might not see things for being as ostentatious as they are. But for someone who was poor their whole life until suddenly they had money...like Jeffree or Shane...how can they justify the prices of Chanel lip gloss or designer shoes? Yes, I understand the want for these things. I thought I was over my label whoredom, but my reaction to a Victoria's Secret sale proved otherwise when I needed new undergarments. (Why pay $30 for a Wal-Mart bra when I can get one on sale at VS for the same price?) But I do not understand paying thousands or hundreds on one purse or one pair of shoes. I don't even feel comfortable spending $60 on a sweater when I can either hit up Value Village and get a few sweaters for $60 or wait until someone I know goes through their clothes. I don't see this mindset changing too much even if I came into mega millions. I'd still be stretching my budget, terrified of becoming broke again. No Birkin bag is gonna buy me a house; it would just make me a target for robbery.
@@gypsywoman9140 yeah I totally get that. I get so excited when I find designer things second hand for way cheaper even though I know the label means absolutely nothing lol. But the idea of dropping over $1000 on one thing, let alone hundreds of thousands is unfathomable??? I already feel bad that I can’t donate to people when I see them advertising their gofundmes when I work retail for less than $10 an hour, but these celebs see nothing wrong with building an entire store for millions of dollars worth of stuff that they’ll never even wear. And I’d be worried about getting robbed too, but they literally hire armed guards so I guess that’s just another thing contributing to their massive overconsumption 🥲
When someone could literally auction off one pair of shoes (or a handbag or a necklace used only once), and raise LIFE CHANGING MONEY, but they choose to keep it in a closet to show off on the internet, or to their friends... It just feels icky. There are people living on the street, dying because they can't afford surgery or medicine, going to school or work literally starving, unable to afford an education or to make ends meet... And then there is this behaviour. It makes me sad more than anything
I have told myself that if I am ever super successful, I want to make sure I donate to different organizations. I'm not a huge spender to being with, so that might be why. It's insane that people have massive closets of stuff they will never wear and cars they barely drive. Donate some of that money to people who need it!
completely agree. If I have a piece of clothing I haven’t worn yet I feel so much guilt about it, but I bet over half of the items have never been worn 🙃 Just selling one of those bags could put someone through college. I wonder if it’s pure compulsion to shop and they don’t think about what they already have at the time. It’s definitely a status thing as well. I think they feel pressured by each other to have more and more and so the bar keeps being raised.
The idea of "old money" is hilarious. Imagine being so disconnected from reality that you're high on yourself specifically because you DIDN'T earn your wealth and deserve it even LESS than other rich people do
Lmao exactlyyy not only do they not need that much money, they literally did nothing to even begin to earn it💀
@@maddie4691 and somehow that makes them better 🙄
Fr people think old money is better than new money when in reality all super rich people are the same
@@TimidAction I think old money are wiser than new money people. The new money has a ridicules obsession with Gucci logos, Birkins, VVS chains and Rolls Royce. Meanwhile old money tends to be more intelligent, educated (even if their way into etc. Harvard isn’t always the correct way.) but their vocabulary is much better, their fashion sense is classier, they see value in their collections, jewelry passes down in generations, companies passes down in generations. It’s political and respect. New money people have no sense of taste in anything whatsoever, although both sides has their ups and downs
A lot of old money don't flaunt it though. Most people who brag that they're "old money" aren't even really respected. I also think that even if old money like collecting things, they tend to be low-key about it and truly see the value and the history and the design that go into their collection--they're actually knowledgable about each piece they have instead of just trying to show it off.
As someone with hoarder tendencies (not just using that for The Bit, I really do have hoarding issues, it's a genuine problem I'm working on and try not to be embarrassed about admitting) seeing these clips make me realise that yet again, as long as you have enough money and therefore space, a disorder can become "aspirational" or impressive, instead of a health concern. It's so surreal to see these clips and not have the interviewer be like, are you okay? like they would if they saw my tiny room. :') Without trying to be judgemental, I think it really shows how much wealth can totally skew your perspective on reality.
I'm glad to see so many people already said this when the video was new. (And being sympathetic about hoarders who aren't at all well-off in the process. Thank you for not dragging us in dragging the wealthy skewed perspectives!)
I also think so much of these collections are some kind of attempt at visualising their wealth. Like, it becomes such a nebulous concept it's impossible to imagine the extent of their wealth, it's totally unwieldy, and the irony is when you just have a bunch of designer handbags that cost that much but aren't intrinsically valuable (just the name on the tag) it is actually still a really poor (excuse the pun) visualisation. You just end up with a lot of handbags.
And yeah on your final points about hoarding (thank you for being so respectful in bringing it up, I think it set the tone for the comments I referred to - also lol I don't think I've ever commented this many times on a video) mine, imo, originates from trauma and having stuff thrown out over my whole childhood and adolescence, often without my knowledge, and now having some control now over my stuff it's comforting to just keep it all. The thing is, I bet (if anyone featured in the video *does* have that kind of disorder) having all that stuff brings so much anxiety about disasters like flooding or fire or even just the fundamental fear of losing it all. There isn't really a point to this comment, just wanted to contribute my experience. I have that same anxiety about "what if something did happen and I did lose it all?"
Instead of putting Hermès scarves on a wall I’m going to get the design printed on paper because I hate to say it but that’s cute
2020 made me realise how useless it is to own wardrobe full of clothes since we mostly stayed at home. Those materialistic lifestyle are just people trying to project a perfect image to the society.
I have seriously rotated between the same six shirts, two dresses, and three pants for an entire year. I haven’t bought new clothes for myself in years, but I could still donate 80% of what I already have and be just fine. 😂
But I also keep the stuff because I feel like donating it would likely end with it eventually being thrown out anyway. 😬
@@tessmoffett5512 yeah I got you cause sometimes I feel the same way too 😂. If the clothes aren't in any bad shape then we usually give them to local charities. Otherwise they'll be used as rags
@@tessmoffett5512 I've been the same way for a year now lol! I wear the same 5 anime/band shirts, basketball shorts, and pajama pants lmao cause there is nowhere to go
I just recently wondered if I should give away most of my clothes... But then I thought, in a few years or months I might regret it...
It’s so weird how flexing / consumerism / materialism are so big in a time where minimalism / decluttering are so trendy too. Interesting dynamic to think about. Anyway, this was one of my faves so far. Great job!!
kinda like how tradlife is trendy where in mainstream land sexpositivity and feminism is pretty much kinda the norm
You always have a mainstream culture and a counter culture to rebel against it. It's pretty normal lol.
@@farahnursingserious585 wdym, tradlife been the norm and no one is forcing ya to change
minimalism and the ability to be minimalist is also a massive show of wealth/privilege, so it makes sense. when youre a minimalist the undertone of it is if you need something they can buy it. when youre broke it is not wise to let go of things that could be used in the future for something else. things like clothes that dont fit you super well comes to mind- you have to keep a range of sizes in case you gain or lose a little weight because you cant afford to go buy new items when your body changes.
@@user-td1xl3cq7g I think minimalism is about only keeping what u need and what gives u joy. ppl think minimalism is just discarding everything to get that zen aesthetics, no ur not a monk and monks dont give a crap about aesthetics, u dont have to do that. Also I feel that minimalism have been misused by rich ppl who dress minimalist with the most expensive shirts and jeans and also flex the best cars, houses and tech. I think Marie Kondo method with minimalism is the best method. Keep the necessary items and what gives you joy only. people forget that reducing your storage size and tidying is more important than buying more storage compartment to hoard ur stuff like what the rich did. Furthermore, it would help poor families have more access to what is already in their homes. Cos they lose stuff in their home when they need that item, they end up immediately buy 2 or 3 more than what is necessary. That really helped me because I tend to misplace stuff back then due to unnecessary hoarding of 'What ifs', 'Just in case' and 'That might be still valuable' to the extent that I cant remember where the stuff I need really are. Thats what minimalism should be about. Managing and maximising your space and the stuff u need inside of it
Thank you so much for the shoutout to thrifting! I love buying second-hand--it's a great way to save money, explore different styles in a low-risk way, and reduce my environmental impact. I love that your sponsors are relevant and ethical!