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"In a strange twist of supply and demand, Hermes is breeding their own crocodiles on a farm in Australia to make enough of their popular\u2014and astronomically pricey\u2014leather bags. Apparently it takes three or four crocs to make one bag, which costs up to $48,000 dollars.   Aside from the fact that this is just wrong (yes, I do realize that the bags weren&amp;#039;t exactly cruelty-free as it were, but for some reason this seems more deliberately wrong) I have to wonder, does this sort of ruin the cachet of the bag? Remember that Sex &amp;amp;amp; the City episode when Samantha uses Lucy Liu&amp;#039;s name to get higher up on the list for an Hermes Birkin bag? Do you think she&amp;#039;d do that now, knowing that they were just whipping up more crocodiles every time someone else wanted a bag? Seems kind of lame to me\u2014isn&amp;#039;t the whole terrible idea that they bags are rare and unique? Not to mention, who are all these people spending $48,000 on bags right now?   I, for one, will be sticking with my boat and tote.  What do you think?   \u2014Amanda Greene, Associate Fashion Editor "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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