How to get a £925 bag from Balenciaga's Spring 2022 collection... on a budget!

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22 Mar 2022, 06:33

Before you think about shelling out a wodge on a fancy Balenciaga shopper bag, why not see if you've got an old Tesco carrier bag hiding down the back of the cupboard?

The luxury brand - beloved by both Rihanna and Kim Kardashian - recently announced the release of it's Monday Shopper Bag, from its Spring 2022 Clones Collection. And it looks suspiciously like the plastic carrier bags that Tesco used to give to customers in the 1980s.

Tesco has since changed the design of its carrier bags, but encourages customers to choose its more sustainable bags for life. A Tesco carrier bag will set you back 20p. Balenciaga’s version? £925.

The Monday Shopper Bag includes silver hardware, snap closures, an inner zip pocket and inner patch pocket. It comes in white calfskin and features vertical blue stripes and the Balenciaga name in red.

In 2017, Balenciaga released a tote bag that was widely ribbed for appearing to be a high-end copy of Ikea’s iconic blue bag in 2017. The designer version was described as having “blue, wrinkled, glazed leather” and featured two short handles and two long ones, in the exact same fashion as Ikea’s Frakta bags, and were priced at £1,600. Here's a reminder that Ikea like a laugh.

Reports that Balenciaga designers were now keeping tabs on Netto's yellow and black bags could not be confirmed at the time of this article's publication.