Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is a good rule of thumb - if they sell the brand in the outlet malls, it's not a luxury brand.

https://www.costco.com/bottega-veneta-medium-bag%2c-black.product.100540244.html

LOLOLOLOLOL

Going to treat myself to one of these babies when my membership rebate check comes through https://www.costco.com/cartier-cle-18k-pink-gold-ladies-automatic.product.100470166.html

Lol! Your $43,000 rebate check?

Mom's caregiver CNA's all have Coach, Kate Spade and LV
handbags. Some of them look very nice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there some type of status associated with Kate Spade bags, I’m hearing a lot about the brand but I never grew up familiar with it, never had one.

None of those are luxury brands.

Anything you can buy in a traditional department store like Macy’s level or at outlets are not considered luxury brands.

Are they fine to buy of course.

Luxury would be Channel or Judith Lieber or Bogota Veneta. Think over $1,000 at least.

Bogota Veneta

It’s the Colombian knockoff version.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there some type of status associated with Kate Spade bags, I’m hearing a lot about the brand but I never grew up familiar with it, never had one.

None of those are luxury brands.

Anything you can buy in a traditional department store like Macy’s level or at outlets are not considered luxury brands.

Are they fine to buy of course.

Luxury would be Channel or Judith Lieber or Bogota Veneta. Think over $1,000 at least.

Bogota Veneta

I know...I chuckled.

LV or bust

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there some type of status associated with Kate Spade bags, I’m hearing a lot about the brand but I never grew up familiar with it, never had one.

None of those are luxury brands.

Anything you can buy in a traditional department store like Macy’s level or at outlets are not considered luxury brands.

Are they fine to buy of course.

Luxury would be Channel or Judith Lieber or Bogota Veneta. Think over $1,000 at least.

Bogota Veneta

I think of Kate Spade as a very young woman's brand: teens through college.

This is maybe because I got the original black KS Sam bag in high school, and loved it sooooo much. I had a few more KS bags in college.

I don't see them as sophisticated, and certainly not luxury. But they're fun.

Luxury for college girls maybe. Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermès etc are luxury and my vice !! Love love love ..

It might be a stretch to call any of these brands luxury, but they are all the same kind of high end.

Kate Spade & Coach (along with Stuart Weitzman) are both part of Tapestry, so basically they are on par.

I'm surprised you are hearing a lot about the brand OP. It seemed much more popular about 10 years ago. I think it was more of a luxury brand before it was sold around 15 years ago. Definitely not now. The outlets proliferated after the sale. Kate Spade committed suicide nearly 2 years ago - not sure if that's had a negative impact on sales.

Anonymous wrote:Woodbury Commons outlets have DIOR, Prada, Gucci etc outlets...

There are Chanel outlets as well.

I think this is a bit relative. City-dwellers would consider Chanel, etc to be luxury, but that's so unattainable in most of the country that its not even on the radar. Kate Spade is recognizable and "affordable luxury."