The latest fashion controversy: Ikea mocks Balenciaga’s $1,000 towel skirt with a much cheaper version

Certainly, on every throw he makes Balenciaga It is on everyone’s lips and not necessarily because everyone wants a piece from this fashion house; but because of their designs that are seemingly so mundane or simple, but styled into a high-end look and priced at hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Recently, the Spanish luxury brand presented its proposals for the spring-summer 204 season (that is, the first half of next year) on its website. And among these garments, a special bottom piece from the unisex collection caught our attention: it is a skirt design made of a textile identical to that of a bath towel, with an adjustable belt, buttons and the Balenciaga motif as extras. .

In other words, it’s like a towel wrapped around the waist. The price of this lavish item: $925.

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After this design went viral on social media, furniture and decor store Ikea decided to join the conversation with an extremely cheaper counter-proposal that seems to call the garment itself into question.

In one of its campaigns for the last months of the year, Ikea’s headquarters in the United Kingdom presented its version of the “towel skirt”, which is nothing more than a simple bath towel that they identically modeled on the Balenciaga model. That is, a gentleman wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and khaki pants over which the controversial skirt was arranged. And supplemented with dark glasses. The difference between the two products is mainly in the price: the Ikea skirt costs 16 pounds ($20). In other words, it’s $900 cheaper than the original.

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