As a trend, leggings aren't going out of style just yet. Instead, they're getting more sophisticated. Balenciaga featured this particular pair in their S/S 2007 runway collection. They look metallic, but it is more likely that they are made of some sort of metallic fabric than actual gold. Then again, they are made only at request and cost roughly $100,000 per pair, which is pretty steep for what amounts to what is little more than long underwear.$100,000 Balenciaga Leggings
As a trend, leggings aren't going out of style just yet. Instead, they're getting more sophisticated. Balenciaga featured this particular pair in their S/S 2007 runway collection. They look metallic, but it is more likely that they are made of some sort of metallic fabric than actual gold. Then again, they are made only at request and cost roughly $100,000 per pair, which is pretty steep for what amounts to what is little more than long underwear.
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11-17-2006 @ 6:24AM
bill said...
just show me the money i can buy socks the rest of my life with 100,000
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11-17-2006 @ 7:16AM
Kate said...
It is perverse that with so much poverty just in the USA alone not to mention the world that anyone would spend 100 K on a pair of leggings. It is truly incomprehensible!
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11-17-2006 @ 7:54AM
Debbie said...
OK. The leggins are a vulgar display of wealth and I could think of a lot better things to do with 100,000.
BUT what I really want to know is this.....is that model the 88# model that just died??? Is she way too thin or what?
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11-17-2006 @ 7:59AM
Franklin said...
100K? Damn, what is wrong with this world -- too materalism and greed or is it egotical??? Who in their right mind would want to spend that kind of money when there are so many suffering in this world in term of poverty! That kind of money can help feed the poor or help many homeless people in this country or many other countries. I am not ignorant to the fact that there are many people who wouldn't mind spending that kind of money because to them, it is just peanut, what a sad world we live in.
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11-17-2006 @ 8:01AM
Dan Danneman said...
So does anyone believe that the same people that purchase these leggings for $100,000.00 would be willing to buy a sandwich for a destitute person? If so, contact Larry Rice of the New Life Evangelistic Center in St.Louis, Missouri.
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11-17-2006 @ 8:32AM
Janet Daily said...
This model looks like she was just rescued from Auschwitz! Horribly thin!
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11-17-2006 @ 8:50AM
Glenna said...
It is sad and pathetic when someone has and extra $100,000 laying around to buy ugly leggings that are really kind of as crass as their price. Wake up rich people...there are people who need help...send $99,980 to Katrina victims or something and buy a nice $20 pair of leggings. Ones that don't look so gaudy.
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11-17-2006 @ 8:51AM
Tiredof Foodtalk said...
Why is it, everytime they show us something way out there, we concentrate on the $$$ and feeding some poor nation? Can't we just talk about the pants?? I think they are different looking in a cool sorta way, They look good on her long legs though. NYC, LA or some European metropolis is the only place you could wear them and not look too freaky.
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11-17-2006 @ 9:00AM
Leslie said...
C3-PO lives!
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11-17-2006 @ 9:02AM
Scott said...
Spend $100,000 on the model she needs to Eat
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11-17-2006 @ 9:37AM
Liberty King said...
Why does everyone complain about what people spend their OWN money on? If they can afford it and want it, then it's no one elses business. As for charities, guess who gives the MOST. That;s right, Corporations and wealthy people. How much did YOU spend on charities last year?
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11-17-2006 @ 9:39AM
diane Seaquuis said...
why?
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11-17-2006 @ 9:47AM
Michele said...
Can you imagine being so rich that you could afford $100k leggings??? I guess it's all in contrast, with my income I can afford $68 jeans at the Gap, and to a multi millionaire $100k may be the same to them as $68 is to me. I prob gave about $150 to charity this past year but a wealthy person prob gave way more...I hope.
ALTHOUGH I wear those jeans all the time, and they aren't ugly like those leggings which will prob only be worn once.
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11-17-2006 @ 10:04AM
Cinderella said...
can we say ...the "spandex" look? ACK!
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11-17-2006 @ 10:10AM
jessica said...
OMG, not only are these UGLY!!why would you spend 100,000 on any piece of shiny clothing! EWW AND YUCK! waste of time and money [even if i could afford it] this is totally messed up! they are not even made of gold! its matalic fabric! ppl dont waste your money! [jessica]
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11-17-2006 @ 10:20AM
Mac Webb said...
I'm pretty sure the model is Ana Carolina Reston who just died from anorexia. Too sad.
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11-17-2006 @ 10:20AM
Ashbash said...
This reminds me of Tomkat having 10,000 roses for their Italian Wedding ceremony in the castle with people flying from all over the world and shipping in hairstylists and what not - for one day - to satisfy their pathetic humongous egos and these pants are the same thing - how many times are you going to wear something like this? Once? When you could buy something really nice or have a really nice small private wedding and instead give the money to help fight for human rights in Darfur or to find a cure for cancer, The leggings are ugly too. This model looks like she should sell the pants and go buy a BigMac. Don't they feed models?
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11-17-2006 @ 10:26AM
Ashbash said...
This reminds me of Tomkat having 10,000 roses for their Italian Wedding ceremony in the castle with people flying from all over the world and shipping in hairstylists and what not - for one day - to satisfy their pathetic humongous egos and these pants are the same thing - how many times are you going to wear something like this? Once? When you could buy something really nice or have a really nice small private wedding and instead give the money to help fight for human rights in Darfur or to find a cure for cancer, The leggings are ugly too. This model looks like she should sell the pants and go buy a BigMac. Don't they feed models?
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11-17-2006 @ 10:51AM
Rawly said...
These people really need to watch "Diana: Legacy of a Princess." She was a woman who could have anything and everything she wanted, but yet used her fame to benefit those less fortunate. I had forgotten all the wonderful things she did for people. For someone to even consider designing these leggings is absolutely reprehensible, not to mention purchasing or wearing them.
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11-17-2006 @ 10:58AM
Maureen said...
Okay.. so the designer is the person who gets that money.. and perhaps the person who sells the fabric.. My question is what they do with that money. If the designer is poor, then the rich person buying those leggings would be doing a deed. A famous person once said, "Money is like manure.. it is best spread around." Should the rich person rather keep the money in the bank? Most people who have money work really hard (or smart) for it. They should buy what they like and use their money however they want to. It's not our job to judge them or influence them, but rather worry about how we use our money ourselves.
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