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Bad things happen. Louis Vuitton is coming to town.

And to make matters worse, our former Cultural Minister blogged about how wonderful it was that you could finally "buy yourself richness". I think she wanted to indicate the social status of a Louis Vuitton bag because as you probably are a ware of: they cost like mad.

I complain about a lot of things, but Louis Vuitton and Burberry really get my panties in a knot. They are Ugly. I get that they might be excellent to put things in (and at that price, should be) and are one of the oldest manufacturers of luggage-related bags, but what's up with the LV:s? And the poo coloring? And finally, what's up with the poo colored LV bag with the cherries? Gastro-intestinal dysfunction-baggie?

I have to ask, and will appreciate an answer since I feel strongly that a LV-representative is reading my blog: did they just have a meeting where they bet each other they'd make the ugliest bag ever and it would still sell because it's a Louis Vuitton?

"I bet I can make it..... poo brown!"

"Aww.. no man!"

"Yeah, trust me. And to top it off, I'll throw in some..... cherries! Poo brown and cherries, are you game?"

"It's on!"

"But I am slapping th LV:s on there too, because you know none of these would sell without them."

"Deal! And the loser has to buy lunch."

I get the point where people think you are rich if you can, like Jessica Simpson, buy a dog-carrier just so your dog might poop in an LV. Or a burberry scarf for 100e (I kid you not) to show off that daddy you have a little extra cash. Personally I'm a Fendi girl, but I doubt I'd buy anything from them if their store ever landed in Helsinki. I would never buy anything from LV no matter what it stands for because I think they're ugly, I could get me a rip-off and noone would notice, and I highly doubt anything that has had Gorbatschov as a face for a recent ad campaign wants to attract a bunch of young girls as buyers.

People are hoping Louis Vuitton is going to help drag Helsinki on to the map. Ok, we have Nokia, we have a lot of impressing elechtrotechnicals, lots of bio-chemicals on the way, but a fashion capital we are not. Mr. Blackwell laughed his ass off when he was asked to judge the best dressing finns. There really aren't any. We are improving, yes, but as a fashion nation we are still not far from the fashion smashion that is Amy Winehouse. Louis Vuitton opening one shop in the hood is not enough to jumpstart the little town of about 500 000 people in the "we'd never travel there, they have knives!"-parts of the world a capital of anything.

Finally, even if you can buy Rich, you just can't buy style.