The Fashionista Lab

Name the price: Sonia Rykiel


(Photo via Bloomingdale’s)

This dress is:
A. $195
B. $525
C. $975
D. $1,490

Points to consider:
The dress is either cotton or silk (the description is unclear), lined, made by Sonia Rykiel, and exuberant and beautiful at the same time. Let me tell you, this dress is expensive. How expensive? The answer is at the bottom.

In other champagne taste news,  The $475 Five Points Camille bag from Kate Spade is now $179.


(Photo via Kate Spade)

I’ve had my eye on this bag for months! It’s quite a discount, but I’m not sure I can justify what will surely be a ~$200 bag after sales tax/shipping. Interestingly it’s going for ~$250 on ebay, which makes $179 look way better, but according to my fashion food pyramid, this would be in the “try not to” category. Today is the last day of the Kate Spade sample sale, so I just need to “try not to” for a few more hours.

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D. $1,490

What do you think makes the dress so expensive?

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4 responses to “Name the price: Sonia Rykiel”

  1. Leslie Avatar
    Leslie

    I know I’m not helping, but Kate Spade never charges shipping 🙂

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  2. Leslie Avatar
    Leslie

    Whoops – my bad. The do on the sample sale, but not on the regular website.

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  3. goldenmeans Avatar
    goldenmeans

    I’m not totally sure if it counts for sample sale items, but you can use the code BRRR20 for $50 off $250 if it makes it any better!

    I think the Sonia Rykel is actually made of silk, which makes me unsurprised about that price. Big name designer + non-diffusion line + nice material = $1000+ price tag normally, sigh. Otherwise I would have owned a Marc Jacobs dress long before now 😉

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  4. Annie Avatar
    Annie

    It’s gotta be silk at that price. Also the fact that it’s probably imported from Paris is something to consider?

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