Posted on 05/30/2012 4:45:39 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
As the daughter of one of Hollywood's most prolific actor/directors, and star of realty TV show Mrs. Eastwood & Company chronicling the lives of her extended family, Francesca Eastwood is well used to being in the eye of the storm.
But Clint Eastwood's 18-year-old daughter is on the receiving end of vicious public outcry after a photographic stunt with her artist boyfriend Tyler Shields backfired.
Eastwood and Shields - known for his work with video portraits and celebrity photography - decided to publicly demolish a $100,000 crocodile Hermès Birkin bag by setting it on fire before taking a chainsaw to it, all in the name of art.
(Excerpt) Read more at fashion.telegraph.co.uk ...
The Horror!!!!
Should have used a Koran
These people are terminally bored.
Which makes them terminally boring.
They can do as they like, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
I don’t care about the artsy-fartsy crap, but if it was her bag she could crap in it and feed it back to the crocs, for all I care. Just gave a job to croc-bag maker and a hunter, skinner and a tanner.
Oh, the Hand-baggery!!
Would it make Mrs. S. weep?
This kind of crapart is about as worthwhile as watching Steve O from Jackass shoot bottle rockets out of his butt.
On second thought, it’s less worthwhile.
(By the way - I had the tagline a long time before this stunt. Even Ween was ahead of curve as opposed to this vacuous duo.)
Take off the Hermes label, and the handbag is only worth $500...
Hang Em High.
She has no Hermès bags, only scarves. Thank God!
No she pretty much just wears her Blueberry lately. Sometimes her Channel
for dressy stuff. Her Jimmy Shoe, Goochi and Louie Futons stay in the closet.
I hid her Sacks card...
It's all fun and games until someone wrecks a handbag.
All this righteous indignation over the destruction of a $100k bag, but not a raised eyebrow over a *$100k* bag. Looks like the bag-burners are the ones who had a better idea of the true value and use for the idol er bag, although they surely could have picked up its twin at a flea market for $10... :-)
Mrs. Eastwood is even more vapid than Kris Kardashian.
I did not think that was even possible.
In attempting to educate us unwashed peasants about “art,” she unwittingly revealed herself for an utter fool, in that she paid $100,000 for a satchel to carry her tampons in.
And she also pointed up the duplicity of a cadre of elitists who berate the common folks for neglecting the poor and downtrodden, while she and her friends vainly waste $100K on a self-indulgent stunt. That $100K could have fed a few starving peasants for years.
Ah, the ageless art of large-scale panty-knotting.
She should have spent it on vodka, heroin, and a sex change, like a normal celebrity kid.
That’s funny.
I suspect that was the point of the whole affair. I am sure that the first thing most people thought when they read this was "How can a handbag be worth 100K"? By destroying the handbag in such a frivolous manner, they are rejecting the notion that it has such a value, although they had to pay 100K to do it.
LOL!
BF bought me a fake Pravda at the flea market for $10 (he actually thought it was real!).
What a waste of money.
She should have spent it on vodka, heroin, and a sex change, like a normal celebrity kid.
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Didn’t the libs say it is OK to burn the US Flag - as long as you purchased it and could show ownership?
So what is up with getting shortsinawaditis over a purse?
I never knew alligators bags were that big.
I wouldn’t mind having a pair of their shoes though.
Imagine what it must be like having your 82 year old father come to your high school graduation.
However they will no doubt try to pass a Bag Burning Amendment or some such that makes it illegal for the rich to dispose of their own property as they see fit.
Way better than not having a father at all.
It must be nice if he’s Clint Eastwood.
i’m sure it’s a high crime!
But I am also damn proud of not knowing wtf a Hermes Birkin handbag is !!!!!
;)
Semper Watching!
Just Plain Dick
*****
That’s exactly how she got started many moons ago. At the swap meets (aka
flea markets) in LA.
She didn’t start hitting the hard stuff until after her mom gave her a Marc Jacobs
for her birthday.
Now she needs a 12 step program. And don’t get me started about shoes...
She probably got more than $100,000 worth of publicity out of it, which was the only point anyway.
I’d be willing to bet a week’s pay that they probably did pick up a $10 knockoff at the flea market for this little project. It’s only video, after all. And the evidence is destroyed by the process. No harm, no foul.
Or Sandra Fluck's birth control requirements for eternity.
Mine was 84.
Exactly. The only reason the handbag was supposedly worth $100,000 is because of the “designer” label attached to it. Sure the craftsmanship, if any and the hand stitching if any, might make it somewhat more valuable than a very similar looking leather handbag, just as nicely crafted that I might buy for the fraction of that price at Target or DSW, and BTW similarly produced in some third world country by someone making about a $1 a day in wages whether they are making a Hermes handbag or one I could buy for $30 bucks at Target. I’ve bought lots of very nice handbags at Target and DSW and Kohls that are just as nice looking, fashionable and just as functional as any of those overpriced designer handbags.
The real fool is the person who would pay $100,000 for a piece of leather crafted into a bag with a fancy label on it made by the very same people and means as the $30 handbag that I can buy at a fraction of that cost, just to hold their stuff.
I’ll second that. Very funny!
A Pravda?
Taking a gators shoes away from them can be kind of dangerous, but give me your shoe size and I’ll see what I can do.
Taking a gators shoes away from them can be kind of dangerous, but give me your shoe size and I’ll see what I can do.
Indeed, they look like the kid who is bored with his toy and then gets a bigger toy only to get just as bored, but still clenching at them.
They have salt but lost the taste of saltiness.
God blesses the wise and persecuted with connected taste buds passions that are matched with the tasty food He hands over.
All this money to naught, they revert to drugs and confusion, living entirely tasteless lives.
Yes . . . see the post I replied to and you’ll get the drift. ;-)
I think you meant "for a couple years."
For some reason, Judas Iscariot’s famous line came to mind:
“Why was this not sold and the money given to the poor?”
Liberal heads would explode at the thought.
Yeah, I’m on a roll this morning...........must be the hail and thunder that kept me up.....waiting for all of the pistons to start firing, any minute now.........I’m a bag hag myself, and was getting excited that perhaps there might be a new Russian designer on the scene....;-)
Oh, and I got a pair of those Channel sunglasses in a border town on the Rio Grande a few years ago....that’s what happens when you shop after margaritas.
Better to be thought a fool than to cut up a hand bag and remove all doubt.
say what you will about killing animals, but it was a further waste of having killed an animal for no good reason
I bet taking shoes away from a gator is dangerous. But I think taking a purse away from a female gator is way more dangerous!!
ROFL
Imagine what it must be like having an 18-year-old daughter giving you the finger in public by burning a $100,000 purse. Because that's his money...
LOL! Very dangerous. . .
LOL!
Well said! (#5)
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