Yesterday, I attended the Manolo Blahnik sample sale and although I scored a great pair of heels, the sale left a bad taste in my mouth. It might have been because I was all sampled sale out (I covered the Be&D sale and the Monica Botkier sale this week) or because upon waiting for the sale to start, I was grouped with the Maire Antioniettes of sample sales. I didn’t get the VIP press invite so I knew I had to get there early to be apart of the first group when they opened the sale to the public. So yes, I traveled from BK to get to the Upper East Side by 6:00am. I was exhausted and it was too early to hear the annoying chatter about the hierarchy of sample sales.
A certain group of ladies were sucking the fun right out of the sale by one, being annoyingly self-righteous and two, acting as if they held stock in Manolos.One VIP took it upon herself to start making a list of those who arrived to the sale, this is before the Manolo staff even set up their efficient system. When shoppers arrived she would tell them to sign the list, she even stated that everyone should sit in the order that they arrived.
Another shopper who had to move because she wasn’t sitting in the correct order and I shared a glance that suggested, who died and made her the chief of order at a sample sale? The same VIP finds herself a friend and they went on to engage in probably one of the snootiest conversations I have ever overheard. Self- righteous number one and self -righteous number two, just went on and on about their disappointment in the sale leaking to the public and how they hate when other fashionistas try to swindle their way into sample sales, all typical sample sale behavior.
They were speaking as if non-press or non-VIPs weren’t worthy of attending the sale. Here I am, not a press or VIP listening and thinking to myself is this how the women of the press and editors of fashion publications really think? That the same women they are writing for aren’t even allowed to partake in a sale? It’s bad enough that some designers don’t like certain people wearing their clothing, but here, we have women who are seemingly “setting the trends” for the masses expressing their disdain about the “masses” being allowed at various sample sales. F.Y.I. It’s always been the masses that have set the trends, i.e. the Youthquake movement where teenagers dominated the fashion and music scene.
These women were acting as if they were entitled to this sale. Ladies: you’re getting discounted past season shoes that come in plastic tubs -get over yourself. We’re all here at the crack of dawn to shuffle through shoes; you are no better than me.
And honestly, stylish Manolos can never substitute a shitty attitude.
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