<![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Okay. Let me get things straight, she is not amazing at designing: Her dad gave her 100 million gift, and of couse she will spend it on a fashion line. But her designs are ugly and cheap no matter where in the world the store is.
She was in my class, and she was always trying to fit in but never suceeding.. Seems like shes doing the same in Tinseltown.


Chicka1992

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @Runeshai: Well, Ksenia Sobchak did get her nosejob in the US.

It's interesting, because whenever I've shown my friends in the US my favorite Russian movies, they haven't really "got" them, even with subtitles, excepting Tarkovsky and the like. It can be a pretty large cultural gap to bridge, despite what Kira says about teenagers being the same everywhere and all that.

vanka

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Why is it so positive that American culture doesn't have a lag before getting to other countries anymore? I'm sure that's good for news and whatnot, but seriously, why doesn't Russian culture ever come to the US? Or why isn't the US permeated by foreign cultures and media icons and news and social occurrences as much as other countries are permeated by those of the US?

Runeshai

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @briardahl: I think you might be mistaking the origin of the quotes. The "black market jeans" bit is from the article about the rich teenager, and it's talking specifically about Russian teens grabbing global trends much quicker than they used to. It's not from the Birkin book article.

lautaylo

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Can't lie I still want a Birkin...
But 48K? Even if I was wealthy I'm not sure I could get over the sticker shock. How abt traveling instead?


sienna2125

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> tsarina posh spice, anyone?

onesong

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @Twilly: it blows my mind. i think even if i had the money to spend on luxury goods, i wouldnt b/c im too practical. that $ could be used elsewhere.

militia

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @cautionarywhale: @la_phantom_lady: I think this touches on some very heated threads regarding the importance of tolerating other cultural values vs expecting everyone to want to follow a single social construct.

Anyway, I can't imagine swearing off travel because foreign cities are pretty much the only physical beacon of globalization. To me, that just reads as someone too lazy to dig a bit deeper. That whole conclusion is pretty lame. But then, so is buying/selling a Birkin and then writing about it.

bitterapple

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> i admire how she keeps it real with warm coats for those cold russian nights...
[www.latimes.com]

cattv

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> she's not the first russian to cross over fashion-wise -- the jean line Kova & T was started by Dasha Zhukova, also a multi-millionaire's daughter (and one of the richest dudes in the world's girlfriend) and Christina Tan.

anywayzzzz, this article about Plastinina is such a pre-packaged puff piece, it makes me sad to be a publicist. It just sounds like a rigid editing job.
Sadly, the "Star Factory" show she "designed" outfits for (which were mostly unflattering, I must say) is also prepackaged swill.


dashenbka

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> It's things like this that make me want to turn into a guerilla anti-handbag activist and set women's purses on fire. All while cackling madly and alliterating.

Meko

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> I didn't mind the calculus of currency conversion or the etymology of exotic entrées.

God, stop. This writer needs to ponder the painful prerogatives of the prison yard.

Too Hot For TNR

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @zibnchy: This is not on topic, but:

"huge box of smells" in my basement

I just cracked up with a huge snorting laugh at my desk and now I have to play it off like I swallowed my coffee wrong or something.

tscheese

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @KatyaMoskva:

Completely agree. I also live in Moscow and it's mullet central over here. I have never seen so many bad haircuts in one place. There is definitely still a lag between Russia and Europe/America, socially and culturally. Just because there are plenty of billionaires here does not mean it is suddenly a civilised country. Far from it.

and yes. Lots of leopard print.

moscovite

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> I live in Moscow. Yes, there are more billionaires here than any other city on the planet. Yes, everything is insanely overpriced. But this girl claims, "There's no lag, anymore, between the culture that European and American teenagers consume and what makes its way to Russia." Bullsh*t!

Hipster Russian guys all have horrendous mullets... unironically. Russian girls dress so outrageously slutty it's hilarious. White trousers with flourescent colored thongs. Knee-high stiletto boots covered in sequins and lace. Lots of leopard-print. Way too much makeup. As a friend pointed out, "Russia had the sexual revolution without the feminist revolution, which is why gender relations are so wierd."

KatyaMoskva

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> The thing I love about Jane Birkin (apart from the teeth, the hair, the utter Englishness) is the fact that while she probably thinks it's really sweet that she had a handbag named after her, she really really really doesn't care.

But I could be projecting.

bowleserised

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> The screaming handbag girls started like a virus in New York,now they're everywhere like zombies from hell coming to get you.

Saxon 212

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @ThereMustBeAPony: Yeah I just met those girls here in Beijing, too.

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Our little Veruca is growing up so fast...

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Poor miss kira she is so terribly unoriginal. See Fiorucci circa 1975. Except Fiorucci had alot more originality and flair.

Missloo

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> I read this in the article about Ms. Plastic:

"Kira is the artiste-in-chief, but she definitely has help. 'This lady came with a huge box of smells,' she says of the creative process by which her perfume line was created, 'and I picked stuff out.' "

And, I don't know, I just died a little inside.
Also, I have a "huge box of smells" in my basement.


zibnchy

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @ThereMustBeAPony: Of course! The first thing you want to do when you visit Europe is eat at the nearest McDonald's. That's what the European experience is all about. [/sarcasm]

Mafalda para Presidente

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @la_phantom_lady: I was once on a bus in Spain and a girl was anxious to find MacDonald's because (as she was bragging) she's eaten at "the golden arches" in every city she'd been to in Europe but not yet on this little island off the coast of Spain. For sure she'd find one ... and a Gap, and a Cartier, and an HMV ... etc

ThereMustBeAPony

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Yes, who could possibly care about this? Dear Lord. I guess that I am being punished for reading NEW YORK magazine when I should be reading something boring but impressive, like the books on French theory that I buy at St. Mark's read four pages of, realize I don't understand, and never return too… oh well.

MikeLindgren

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @ccchild: Sad clown, I went to London for the first time in 9 years, all excited to partake in the Topshop frenzy. The Oxford Circus store is fucking amazing and so were the clothes, but I was way too poor to partake in its awesomeness. It was wayyyy more expensive than H&M--probably more along the lines of Bebe or Arden B, price-wise.

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Birkins don't cost 50K if you get them from Hermes. My aunt has 5…I'm not kidding. Clearly she is in a different economic stratosphere but if you're featured in Vogue and Town and Country blah, blah, blah then there isn't a wait. Buying anything off market is crazy.

alix

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> okay, sorry everyone.... i'm still getting the hang of thisssss.@stephanielayme:

your Mrs. Robinson

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @TeenageGangDeb: I totally used to do presentations in French class about Serge Gainsbourg while everyone else was blabbering on about Chanel. To me, Serge is REAL France.

But I still definitely want a Birkin bag. I've seen some really decent imitations and even if you can shell out the 50K, you still have to wait two years to even GET your bag.

your Mrs. Robinson

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @redheadedstepchild: yes
@briardahl: the way you phrased your regionalism post made it seem like you confused the two. i don't really think they're related mentality. one is pretty obvious trufax, the other is just... something i couldn't bear to read.

vanka

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> At first when I read this, I thought her name was Kira Plastica and had to think really??

@TeenageGangDeb: oh man i was in love with serge gainsbourg wayyyyyy before i put two and two together to figure out what a birkin was. i used to do french presentations on him!

And I don't care. I still want one.

your Mrs. Robinson

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @vanka: The excerpt from the Bringing Home the Birkin article is the article that presumptuously assumes that all the major cities in all major countries are now the same.

TeenageGangDeb

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Birken was a fashion icon from the 60's to the late 70's. As a teenager, I had a David Bailey photo of her pinned to my wall. But, some of you probably don't know who David Bailey is either.

sjct

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @vanka: I'm talking about the bit of the guy's book, though, not the Plastinia article! (Sorry if my snipping from the way they're juxtaposed in the post read like I thought they were coming from the same place.) There are some pretty large and obvious socio-political reasons we'd have seen that change in Russia in the past few decades; that change is always happening somewhere. What I'm whining about is the way that leads to assumptions about how the process is over -- how someone's constantly looking at changes in a select group of cities (usually western or east-Asian or some select wealth neighborhood in India) and marveling at the process being done, the world made even. I will admit that this mostly bugs me because I don't want to have to keep reading that article for the remaining decades of my life.

But I'm talking about the way they're juxtaposed in the post: I know the quotes come from different places, they're just related mentalities.

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> This girl shares my name. I'm ashamed.

kirability

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> This morning I was sitting in the dentist office, waiting to have my wisdom teeth removed, reading Teen Vogue and read a little one page ditty on her. New York Mag picking up Teen Vogue scraps...

eera

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @militia: I'm having a shitty personal finance week, and knowing ladies out there are dropping 48k on a bag while I scrap together (very) late rent money and pick up a second job.

Brightened my Monday! Now off to Half Price books to sell off enough to pay for rent!

Twilly

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Oh Moe, Jealous Green brings out your eyes so well.

On topic: Does Moscow still have more billionaires per capita than anywhere else?

redheadedstepchild

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> My roomate bought a shirt from this girls label. It was incredibly slutty. Not 15 year old appropriate clothing in my mind.

lex2712

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> I do see Tonello's point--it's really about context. that is, the context of someone who would be buying a birkin. you can close your eyes and land on certain paris or london shopping streets, and see all the same retail chains, brands and people sporting the same looks. one has to really rout out the fresh/original. however, if one is not spending their time in these shopping quarters (and those that inhabit them), plenty of disparity can be found.

thatgirlinnewyork

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @briardahl: I think in this case it really is just specifically about Russia though. Russia is a completely different place than it was 20 years ago, drastically different from 10 years ago, and even slightly different than it was 2 years ago when I went to Russia for the first time. There is nothing in the Kira Plastinina article about travel at all, or to imply that because now when I go to the mall near my old apartment in Russia, the Kira Plastinina store is on the same level as the Apple Store and TopShop that the whole world is now like the US and Western Europe. I think this article is pretty Russia-specific, and a specific strata of the Russian population at that, and doesn't really have to do with "regionalism" at all but the Soviet-Yeltsin-Putin Russia transformation. And those annoying, entitled Golden Youth.

vanka

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @ccchild: I happen to really love Delia's. Oh and OT yes rich teenagers are ALWAYS annoying.

katella

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @ccchild: topshop merch is already available at opening ceremony here (for the past year). however, i doubt you'll find anything below $40. for best selection, buy online directly from topshop.

thatgirlinnewyork

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @vanka: I meant that if a generation passes and someplace like Russia starts to seem more like western Europe, that doesn't necessarily mean the entire world is now the same and there's no point to travel. In this case, it might mean that kids in Senegal are coveting jeans, and the untouched regionalism someone craves might be further out in ... Mongolia. Regional difference isn't anywhere near gone -- pure wealth differences will keep that from happening anytime in any our lifetimes -- and it's a bit cheap and silly to go around marveling as if the world has collapsed into one same-everywhere culture. (It's also silly to go around lamenting the sameness and commercialization of "all" cities when the residents of a lot of the world's cities are near-literally dying for some commercial action to come their way -- it's a complaint about a global economic elite, not anything about how people really live.)

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Yeah, I think it's actually PLASTININA.

Jezebabe

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Hey author of lame book about a purse: Why don't you stop merely visiting all these cities and actually become a contributor to something? You know, give back to the culture, produce something new, quit sucking the life out of everything with your pointless consumerism.

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> every place is every place? wtf, where are you GOING?

turtle.

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @es-ki-mo: You're awesome & clearly reading my mind. I thought the same thing.

rosasparks

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @bananaballs: for real. you would have to PAY ME 48K to walk around with a dead crocodile on my arm.

militia

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @briardahl: what are you talking about? it is true: in the soviet union, black market US jeans were the shit. maybe i'm misunderstanding you about this whole "regionalism" thing.

vanka

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @briardahl: Yeah. It's like, try going somewhere not in Western Europe, asshole.

TeenageGangDeb

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @la_phantom_lady: Eh, 80% of cities on this earth fucking WISH they were the "same same same" as the few being discussed there.

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> I'm terrifically skeptical of anyone who seriously feels like he's exhausted the world's supply of regionalism. "A generation ago, Russian teenagers were trading for jeans on the black market" -- a generation later, maybe you'll need to go someplace further afield before proclaiming the world flat?

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> I love Jane Birkin. I am happy if more people know who she and her husband were. I am less happy to know that they know that because of a dumb fucking overpriced piece of shit status symbol BAG.

TeenageGangDeb

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> [foto.mail.ru] this image haunts my dreams.

i almost bought a hot pink winter coat there once but then i realized that there was no way i could respect myself in the morning. it was cute and a good price, and my black one was pretty busted, but i just couldn't do it.

vanka

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @militia: OH MY GOD, you were not lying. How is that possible? They're fug, dude.

bananaballs

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> "I had increasingly noticed a sinister sameness about each of these foreign cities. Before my very eyes, every place was turning into every place else".
As a flat generic response, I will blame big box stores. that and people don't seem to want to be reminded that they are on vacation in a different/foreign city anymore. so all cities are becoming the same. same stores. same look. same same same


la_phantom_lady

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> ...a signature shade of pink...

Pfft. That's so 1959. ([en.wikipedia.org])

laughingacademy

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Love. It. another self-entitled, spoiled, "Socialite", insufferable brat. This world obviously didn't have enough, apparently.

There-can-only-be-one-monkeypox

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> There is no way that girl actually said "calculus of currency conversion" or "etymology of exotic entrees".

Pinkosaurus

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @militia: that would be 48K

militia

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @es-ki-mo: Probably, maybe fat free orange juice. From outside the store looked like Paris Hilton had babies with Lisa Frank and they threw up all over it.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> i just looked up a Birkin bag on Ebay and the buy it now price for some of them are 48! hmmm... college tuition or birkin bag? down payment on a house or birkin bag?

militia

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @ccchild: Hate to tell you, but Topshop ain't going to save you money since their prices have gone up hugely (even here in the UK) and their quality has plummeted at the same time...

A dress for 40 pounds is rare, let alone 40 dollars

gherkinfiend

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> That sinister sameness? It's you, author of pointless book. A Hermes store in Paris will look like a Hermes store in any other city. You need to switch it up a little.

But shallow people rarely do, eh?

cautionarywhale

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> There was something about her in the LAT the other weekend and it completely confused me, mainly because I don't understand a) why anyone would want to be friends with Paris Hilton, b) how she calls this a fashion line, and c) kids these days. Mainly C, really.

RocketRockit

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> @ineffable.me: Does it sell orange juice and horses?

es-ki-mo

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> And everyone to everyone else.

TwiceShy

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Is there any pointless 15 year old rich person you actually do want to read about? Surely they are all irritating when like me you're 29 and flat broke?

gherkinfiend

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> Plastinia. ha. You couldn't make up something more fitting.

es-ki-mo

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> In related news, man, I can't wait for Topshop to open in NYC. (Because, any dress over $40, I really can't afford, and I'm sick of telling people I get all my clothes from Delia's.)

ccchild

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> I walked by that store this weekend and didnt even want to walk in so as to not be counted in the traffic reports.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About]]> I avoided this at the source so you bring it here? For shame!

JessicaLovejoy: Y SO DYKEISH?

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