We Are What We Do, we are ‘buy’

Anya Hindmarch’s new bag cooked up a storm in Ireland last week. Well, I say it’s ‘new’, it’s not really. Just new here. The fashion must have of the moment went on sale last Saturday at 9am in Brown Thomas, Dublin, Limerick, Galway and Cork. While many of the tired ‘fashionistas’ kept civil, reports suggest that various petrol bombs were thrown in Limerick. This may or may not be linked to the bag’s release, one young boy gave a statement of ’so?’ when he heard of the news.

I heard some girls started queing at about 3am. Lol ffs. It was 12euro like, even that knack that you suspect is living in yer wheelie bin was spotted buying one after shoplifting attempts failed. Luckily no one went overboard, which is more than the ‘Taiwan-ees’ can say

In Taiwan, the launch caused a stampede and left some people in hospital, prompting retailers in Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai and Jakarta to cancel the launch of designer Anya Hindmarch’s environmentally friendly bag.

I would have loved one of these bags, basically just to carry it around empty and show everyone how dedicated I am to camp outside Brown Thomas in some Hobos piss on Wicklow Street. Unfortunatly, I was working that day and didn’t even know of this launches existance until I was on my way home, when reports of the bags selling out were on the radio. I know, shame on me.

Don’t bother trying ebay, they are charging as much as 300euro for the fucking thing, wowz warra bargain. Just get a fake instead, you know you want to. SURE you’d buy the bag if you could get your hands on it, but it’s proving difficult. This is official permission to make your way over to the dodgy looking guy with the stall on O’Connell’s street and let him charge you 20 for it. It’s still doing the same job at the end of the day, besides ironically being sold in plastic bags.

The main message of Hindmarch’s (oh so sophisticated) creation is for the global social change movement, ‘We Are What We Do’, which is trying to encourage people to stop using plastic bags. No one actually cares about this message though or they would just go to Marks and Spencer and buy one of those attractive ‘granny green’ re-useable bags. The amount of attention this is getting, you’d swear it was one of a kind.

I still want one though.