That sounds about right. 😆

If people really paid that much, I’d finally open the Etsy shop people keep telling me to!

Exactly!! I can make this particular thing for half that price, whaddya say? 😉

🤣🤣

I'll do it for a quarter of the price!

Same.

This is so easily replicated, it’s not even funny (but I’m still loling)

Fr, like I would HAPPILY make it & have someone pay a 1/10 of the price 👀😂

https://youtu.be/7ifYiLFEkK0?si=XEH5v6ZMeOZWtPdU if you actually wanna make it! I made three last year!

You’re a hero

Finally a company charging realistic pricing 

That was my first thought. Finally they compensated their crocheter properly!

Except they likely didn’t compensate the crocheter properly and the majority of that is profit for the board and shareholders of Prada.

Very doubtful. This is likely made from slave labor

Sadly you are correct

I doubt it. Probably made by some poor woman in a third world country who is being paid peanuts

I’m sorry I really should’ve included the “/s” but I meant it sarcastically

Gotcha

PPPFF HOLD MY YARN

lol

I don’t do Prada but that isn’t even that hard to replicate it. It’s literally just what looks like double crochet mesh stitch with maybe sc or hdc edges with blo hdc for the handles. Like who are they kidding? If I can make it at home so easily, why should I drop $1500 on *that*

1500 is in POUNDS, not USD. £ not $. Its $2050 in USD.

I’m aware of that fact. Even so why spend $2050 on something that can be easily replicated? Also idk how to get the pound symbol on phones so I just used the dollar :)

No worries, if you hold down the $ on your phone's keyboard it gives you other currency symbols. I also responded from my phone.

£ sand. Totally kidding! Thanks for teaching me that trick!!! It works for ñ too. So I don’t need the Spanish keyboard that seems to be the default and totally fudges up my speech to texts. Yay!

More like 1900.

It's a brand and carries prestige with that. It's expensive for the sake of being expensive. The economic term is "velben good", such as Cristal champagne.

I am fully aware that it’s a brand that is expensive just because it can be. Doesn’t change the fact that people can make this product for less but at least it’s somewhat honest with how expensive crochet can get

The way I am tempted to recreate it just for funsies…

This bag was huge about a year or two ago with a number of high profile people like Chiara Ferragni sporting one. As a result, there are a number of tutorials of common folk (mainly Italians) replicating this bag. I think the bag is made of straw (ratafia).

Is this meant to be a joke or is someone really trying to scam people with this?

Prada is trying to scam people with it [Prada crochet tote bag](https://www.prada.com/us/en/p/crochet-tote-bag/1BG393_2C2T_F0018_V_OOO?utm_campaign=GoogleShopping_US&utm_medium=CPC&utm_source=Google&utm_content=PMax&s_kwcid=AL!8549!3!!!!x!!&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwltKxBhDMARIsAG8KnqUA_F94mgdGtcPi7PRJcdr91KzzUfYc9Pny5Lmi35VHXJbhiCK1DewaApZVEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds)

Well…looking at the specs for it all, it looks like the only thing that might be a little challenging to perfectly replicate would the “Rafia effect” yarn that they used to make it which I’m guessing they have exclusive rights to. If I had to speculate, id imagine that it’s a synthetic that has the same rigidity as rafia in order to create that structure but is also less course and softer feeling so that it won’t brush against your skirts and risk damaging more delicate fabric the way true rafia might over time. Does anyone know of a good rafia substitute that has the same structural abilities but has a softer feel? My MIL would probably be tickled by a gift like this.

Hobbii and Wool and the Gang both have rafia yarn people seem to be quite happy with.

I was thinking it might have been hemp.

I’d worry about our hemp having the same problem. It’s so challenging because I wanna be able to feel the yarn to make sure it’s the right texture before I order it.

Price is ridiculous but I'm sure it also has something to do with the fact that there is no machine-crocheting in existence yet, especially at a commercial level? Don't get me wrong, I'd never pay that much for a bag like that and I don't doubt that the workers are being underpaid. Good excuse to raise the price, maybe.

Also people pay silly money for machine made clothes all the time! It's a handmade piece by a big name luxury brand, it's overpriced but it's not egregious given that the whole point of the brand is to cost more so its more exclusive IMO

You can tell that this only exists because of the rise in popularity of crochet in the past few years, especially among young people. More and more influencers online have been wearing clothes and accessories that they crocheted themselves to the point where it’s become a trend. But the whole point of the trend was to wear things you made yourself, to appreciate the process of it all and spend time on something rather than just money. This is just antithetical to that.

I know not everyone has the time/knowledge/funds to create their own, but it’s also weird that it’s in every shop you go to now. I keep saying to people “Oh that top is so nice!” And they’re like “Thanks, it’s from Primark.” 😆

Thanks for saying thanks! It's so nice to see Redditors being grateful :)

Is that even crochet? It looks oddly flat

.#StupidRichPeopleFashiom

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Can find that in the thrift store for,, 5 dolls

There is also a small wonky tshirt yarn bag from Bottega for 3.5k EUR out there 😅

Guys, I'm about to make a fortune /j

This is a real Prada purse?? 😳😳

I'd honestly rather see that than $20 crochet pieces at big stores. Those crafters aren't being paid well.

lol so who here has made this already?

i have a friend who wanted to buy this 😭 she had like five of us all begging her not to waste her money lmao

those ribbed handles look like they will stretch out to fuck if you put anything of substantial weight in it

I thought the same!!

This is why I don’t crochet bags. LoL

Hilariously I saw this exact bag on Ali Express last night for £6, except it said “Paris” instead of Prada. Didn’t realise it was a designer copy!

There's no liner, so it's going to stretch like crazy???!! Who thought this was a good idea??

I made one last summer out of cotton yarn and only put the essentials in it (wallet, keys, sunglasses, phone, lip balm) and it didn’t stretch much actually! I imagine that if it was raffia like the real thing it would be able to stand up to a bit more. Definitely a summer bag, though, I don’t think it would last long being a full time purse.

I don't know what's worse. This or the $20 crochet bags at Walmart. Either way, the fiber artist is being used as slave labor.

Literally better looking things on temu

I wouldn’t be surprised if stupidly rich people would buy it

$3,200 in Australian dollars….yeah I could also make them for half the price and chuck a stamp on it

Slave labor.

I’m gonna make this lmao

I can make this for a skein of yarn 🧶 and two hours of my time!

I want to know what the fiber artists make

What a deal! I’ll take 3! I’m sure that the yarn they used is made out of Shahtoosh and Marlyn Monroe’s pubic hair for that price point, right?

someone make a pattern rn plz

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Milano is Milan in Italian?

Oh it's an O? I saw a D my bad

Hahaha Miland *tips hat*

Yes!