Epitomizing Tasteless The Olsen Twins

[Baitball Blogger]

Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen Selling $55,000 Backpacks Covered in Prescription Pills

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have amazingly found a way to outdo their over-the-top $39,000 handbags for The Row.

In collaboration with artist Damien Hirst, the fashion designer duo are now releasing $55,000 backpacks under their label.

And get this: The bags are covered in prescription pill appliqués.

Yes, pills.

Only 12 of the $55,000 backpacks will be made, and some of the proceeds will go to UNICEF.

http://www.gossipcop.com/mary-kate-ashley-olsen-prescription-pill-bag-backpack-55000-the-row-damien-hirst/

[Cleita]

1. All I can say is, "Huh!"

I wouldn't buy one if for no other reason than it's not attractive. Another reason is that I wouldn't spend that amount of money on anything like a bag. I guess it would be better to make a direct contribution to UNICEF.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Wasn't one of the twins in contact with Heath Ledger the night he overdosed?

[Cleita]

6. I wouldn't know. I really don't keep up with celeb gossip that

much, especially with the young ones.

[XemaSab]

2. If you're rich

You can get a lot more pills than that for a lot less money.

[cthulu2016]

3. For people who have been having too easy a time getting through customs

[Baitball Blogger]

5. For people who could use an increased tax.

[ananda]

7. I might buy one for $5 ...

... then take the pills off and donate it to charity.

[dballance]

8. Um, doesn't this seem to be a bit illegal?

I'm not really certain but I'm thinking that even if you call it "art" or some such notion distribution of restricted, prescription drugs just might not be legal.

And the Olsen twins are so far from popular and in the "in crowd" with the government agents I doubt they can get them all to look the other way. It's not like they're Justin Bieber. Their flame faded a long, long time ago.

[Initech]

9. They made a backpack that cost as much as a Cadillac CTS-V.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. I'm thinking they have $54,990 in bills stuffed in the pack.

[jackbenimble]

11. Ick

Those two puzzle me. Is it really possible to be so shallow? Anyone who would pay $50,000 for a backpack is just as bad as they are.

[JaneyVee]

12. Hideous bourgeois bullshit.

[JI7]

13. wouldn't want it even for Free, unless i could sell it and get some money for it

[underoath]

15. I'd try to sell it for about $55,000 or so

[Enrique]

14. i can't wait til someone carrying this gets mugged

by an addict that wants the pills.

[LeftInTX]

16. Words of wisdom from my 20 year old son: That just looks trashy

[HiPointDem]

17. take an ok looking leather bag and glue pills on it. wow, high art. that's about the

stupidest looking thing i've seen in some time.

the rich need more taxes/


1. Seven Theses

*Organisms have life- and death-instincts.
*Society is an organism.
*Society has life- and death-instincts.
*When the life-instinct is predominant in a society, the result is a renaissance-type society; when the death-instinct is predominant in a society, the result is a decadent society.
*When the death-instinct in a society reaches an extreme, it turns into its opposite, the life-instinct.
*Decadence, or the death-instinct, has now reached an extreme in most Western societies.
*The death-instinct, having reached an extreme in most Western societies, will now turn into its opposite, the life-instinct.

http://www.ljhammond.com/cwgt/14.htm

[Baitball Blogger]

18. That captures it pretty darn well.

The thing we're all missing, is that there must be people in the Olsen's world who would look at that backpack and relate to it. And, oh, by the way, also have $55,000 to spend on a good cause.