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Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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This is especially true with luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Prada. People are either trying to impress others with fakes, or they’ve actually paid full price to become walking billboards.

Similar thing with iPhone cases that have a cutout for the Apple logo. That's just hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

The concept is the same. You're advertising your favourite band, they're advertising their need for approval.
I don't know how the brands exploitation of their workers is in any way relevant to this.