@RaisedMedia

To be clear, the rich often still do wear items with the logo all over it. Everyone has their own style. The point is that these luxury items are no longer exclusive to the rich, in fact many luxury brands make up over half their revenues from the middle class! Nobody is judging you for wearing what you like, the point is that these brands have benefited from significant growth by targeting those in the middle and lower class. These luxury items are now engrained into our culture as status symbols of financial and social security and for many, have become essential to own.

@Cherrysmith2809

The rich are not like you or me. They compete among themselves with yachts, jewels, art, travel and homes. Meanwhile, we are on the subway or in the bus with our prized Louis Vuitton. 😂

@SalamiCellar

As someone who owns a home and is middle class I must say: not having a landlord is a luxury I could never give up

@yugorisfriwan

A simple mantra i always use when i buy thing is "if noone ever saw me or knows i own it, would i still buy it?" This simple question has saved me a ton of money throughout my life

@chrisperry2922

Buy because you like it, not because you think everyone else will.

@MusicMike747

Going to bed knowing your bank account has enough money to pay all your bills for the next six months feels a lot better than any attention for a luxury label
Edit One Year Later: This opinion seems quite prescient given that we now know the majority of “luxury” branded items are no more than an emblem on a Chinese slave produced, low quality product

@LITKHRISS

I worked for really rich people, personally spending time working with them made me understand that real wealth doesn’t mean expensive items. They drive the most regular and boring cars, dressing clothes with no branding or flashy logos. You see them in the streets and you’ll never think about how rich those guys really are. They have properties, businesses, assets that if you don’t ask or know them, you’ll never know the money they move and that’s when you know someone is really wealthy, their money speaks for them. Not their shoes or bags

@Milestonemonger

When I was younger and broke, I wished I had a LV. Now that I can afford one, I completely lost interest.

@aszechy

I really dont understand why normal people want to buy luxury branded goods - to me the message they send is: look at me, I'm stupid enough to spend the price of a used car on a handbag!

@Milestonemonger

"Luxury brands destroy their excess inventory to create scarcity."
Genius and disgusting at the same time.

@steffenrosmus9177

The richest guy I knew, a former MS vice president, looks like a ordinary man, wearing worn jeans and sneakers, driving a  rusty 2004 Toyota Hilux. He is sponsoring some 10 food banks in his city, financing 25 guys snd gals from underprivileged families  a university degree  and does not talk about that. We need more of guys like him.

@jessicafern8112

One of my favorite sayings: 

“Money talks. Wealth whispers.”

@wkim22

If you're a low income and you buy a luxury item, you're still a low income. If a rich person buys a fake, they're still rich.

@annalieff-saxby568

I have always felt that, if I'm walking around prominently displaying a brand's name or logo, they should be paying me for the advertising space.

@lucasley20

Yes! "Real luxury hides in plain sight" so true

@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933

Born into a relatively well off family, it can summed up as this: Bragging that you just ate at a fancy restaurant to a rich person is like a beggar bragging that he just went to McDonalds the other day. 

That's why, when mingling with wealthy people, absolutely do not wear something that reveals the brand so brazenly. Wanna wear Louis Vuittton? Go ahead, but just know that real rich people would not be impressed at all if you shout it out to them

The trend is that the elites always wear something obscure and custom made. Sure, they go to Dior and the like, but the real treasure is finding a relatively unknown but skilled master tailor, and comission them. Conversations in wealthy gatherings often revolve around this process of "finding new talent", usually for investment and patronage matters (or at least this is what's popular in my country)

@callicordova4066

Luxury is having enough money to buy a house.

@theshadowman1398

I utterly refuse to buy items that have the brand’s name plastered all over it. It’s cringe. Also I would never in a million years pay 400 USD for a t-shirt.

@HelenMarley-ym3ge

My Nan used to say "If you can't buy it twice, then you can't afford it." I work for a company who sells luxury brands and it's a good mantra to have....

@silvervixen007

I never understood why people purchase designer brands. I honestly couldn't care less