In reply to Mike_d78:
> This is to rucsacs, what Leica is to cameras. Overpriced German 'stuff'...but if you have money to burn...
Dunno if that's fair on Leica tbh - they're a proper historic camera company even if you think they're trading on their reputation a bit these days, whereas these people seem to be straight-up high-end fashion / design stuff "taking inspiration from the blah blah blah". I mean, I don't hate it but it might as well be on Mars for the relevance it has to my life.
Actually, this reminds me a bit of looking at changing bags when we had our first kid. I think I was still in the mindset of outdoor kit where you can mostly explain higher prices in terms of incremental functional improvements based on better materials and little design tweaks and stuff and it's just a question of deciding when you've hit diminishing returns. I was kind-of surprised when I looked at baby stuff to find that I'd entered the world of stuff that rich people buy, not because it's functionally amazing but because it accessorises with their Prada outfits and their minimalist Scandinavian interiors and all that sort of stuff, and that you could spend literally hundreds of pounds on something that was no better than the cheap-and-cheerful thing that we got.