Securing the (Telfar) bag

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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3... 2... 1... GONE? Already? The Telfar Shopping Bag's been considered the "it" bag the last few years, if you can get your hands on one. It's also making big fashion statements by redefining luxury and accessibility in the fashion world.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:03.2	Gemilla Hux-Devall, indicator producer.
0:13.9	Hey, Whelen.
0:14.9	What's up?
0:15.9	Hello.
0:16.9	Well, today we are going to talk about this bag that you are obsessed with.
0:22.4	It is a designer bag and I know you were obsessed with it because you talk about it
0:28.0	all the time.
0:29.5	Whelen, why are you putting my business all out there like that?
0:32.6	This is not okay.
0:34.0	But you know, this is all true.
0:35.6	Today we are going to be talking about the Telfar shopping bag from the Luxury Fashion
0:39.2	brand Telfar.
0:41.4	People have been calling this bag the IT bag for a couple of years now and I have actually
0:45.8	been waiting for one for almost three years and you know what?
0:49.7	I have finally got one.
0:51.0	Three years?
0:52.0	You have been on a journey.
0:53.6	Yeah.
0:54.6	And you know, I am not alone in my quest to get one of these bags.
0:57.8	This is Melissa Yapp, she is a student at PACE University in New York.
1:02.0	Oh my gosh, Telfar.
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