And following closely behind this item of business and marketing data is the news this week that Burberry - the London-based English brand that came from Basingstoke originally in 1856 - has burned, as in literally destroyed over fifty million US dollars of product (clothes, bags, perfumes, other accessory items), with the objective of decreasing supply and thus I suppose presumably making the branded articles lower in supply than perceived demand in order to buoy up prices.
I guess.
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| This thing is a real thing, and it exists and it works - and it is made by Aston Martin |
Now in the case of Burberry there are other factors than 'ordinary' and typical current-era market economics as taught by these industrial manufacturers of idiots and professional stupid people. Liz Claiborne, the CEO, passed away not that long ago altering much of the dynamics of how the place was even able to be run, between the creative department and the financial management area.
However, when you also look at other London brands such as Aquascutum, and its extremely dodgy 'bankruptcy' and subsequent 'sale' to a holding company for not much more than ten million bucks, to be re-sold again very quickly for upwards of 150 million... ...then you can stick on your paranoid skeptic hat and think about the effect of the silly 'China-money' and the ethics of your average London 'businessman' and what happens when those two things get together.
Another brand which in my view is rapidly moving towards its demise is, wait for it, don't gasp - Bentley.
Oh yes, unlike the German Rolls owners, the present owners of Bentley are hardly what you could readily call 'good custodians of the brand.' In fact, right from day one of their buy-out arranged by the criminal-minded fool Margaret Thatcher (that last bit was written by John Lydon, by the way, not me...), they completely moved straight-away, towards contemporary Germanic design concepts and AWAY from the traditional Bentley shapes and ideas, except that they claimed Bentley was always already doing this 'vorsprung durch technik' design philosophy, so that's what 'allowed' them to do it... Yeah, right, except that it was from an English point-of-view what original Bentley were doing, ya idiots, not the fractured optic nerve perspectives of German 'masterminds.' (LOL).
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| And this is a real Savile Row jacket - can you tell? Not that many left doing it for real in London now... |
When it comes time for you to spend your big bucks now, think ten times first now - remember you are living in a world of mixed virtues: highly advanced technologies that indeed definitely have their place, even though they are being used or exploited by people from completely different parent brand ideologies - all mixed up with for the most part falsified, spurious representations of previously genuine authentic luxury or expensive functional things.
I totally agree with Aston Martin over their unveiling this week at the Farnborough Airshow which is still on for a couple of days - of their flying car. This is where carbon fiber and composites and F-B-W and computers and drone technology was always legitimately heading.
But if you want a real authentic sports car (carriage which goes on wheels and tyres on a road), call me up and I'll privately introduce you to the people who still actually make them in England; same goes for shoes, suits, shirts, watches and just about everything else you can think of.
Even Mysore sandalwood - the authentic stuff - is literally no longer actually available even in Mysore. The best of that thing comes from here in Western Australia where the Maharajah of Mysore started some official plantations out in literally the semi-desert wilderness here. So there ya go!
