Via the Onion, of course.
Fashion house and perfumer Chanel, famed for its iconic, $300-an-ounce No. 5 scent, announced that it has created a cost-efficient fragrance for the Third World, one specifically designed for the rigors of dry, dusty, less glamorous environments in the Southern Hemisphere. [...] As for 3rd's scent, Chanel wanted something "clean, youthful, and beguiling," said Chanel chemist Robert Geneau, adding that organically musky, smoky, and earthy tones had been rejected because the scent's intended users most likely had too much musk, earth, and smoke in their lives already. "3rd has a bright, grassy base, like a fresh breeze after a rain—a very exotic scent for our target customer. There are also notes of cocoa, citrus, spices, and other things our customer sometimes raises and harvests for foreign export, but rarely gets to savor herself. Captivating, and for a fraction of the cost of high-end scents available in the West, 3rd is just the economic miracle developing nations need."
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If Chanel really wanted help "3rd" world nations, they should share profits since they make clothing for dollars and sell them for hundreds if not thousands.
If you don't recognize that Corporations are slowly draining the human race out of existence for pennies on the dollar, than you have been bought too.
Affordable $100-an-ounce??. They have no idea what a poor family could do with that amount of money.
Fashion has nothing to do with starvation.