The Total Cost of Emily's Outfits In Emily In Paris - Financial Review | Netflix
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Hi Luxe Minds community! This week I decided to research the lifestyle of a fictional character to see if it would be sustainable in the real world. Netflix's show Emily in Paris portrays the life of a social media marketer who moves to Paris and lives a very lavish life - filled with endless Chanel bags. I hope this analysis helps you better understand how out of touch directors and TV stylists are with reality when they create these financially illiterate characters. Let me know what you think of Emily's spending habits.
0:00 Intro
0:54 Emily is Problematic
2:21 Cost of Outfits
5:14 Cost of Food
6:45 Cost of Apartment
7:56 Income Vs. Expenses
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It is INSANE that she has a separate matching Chanel bag for every outfit
I know!! You would think she was the CEO of Chanel
Credit cards
Also, how are those bags even practical? I use a huge backpack almost everyday, I can't imagine what you can possibly fit into a small bag like most her bags? Especially if she goes to work and literally spends all her day away from her home?
@@aichahamdi2829 Seriously, they're so hideous and cheap looking lol
They don't match anything. Nothing match
It’s the fact that every outfit looks both ridiculously incredibly expensive but also super cheap and terrible and the SAME TIME is crazy to me.
I mean Chanel has gone (for the most part) to crap after Karl Lagerfeld died. Virginie Viard is not the right creative director to get Chanel from. They could have at least gotten vintage Chanel even though that is even more unrealistic. Not sure why they didn't put her in younger, cooler, more obscure designers from Paris (it is one of the fashion capitals after all) that could have used the show to highlight their clothing and not made her clothing so ugly. Half the time she looks like an eccentric Grandma and the other half she looks like Chanel barfed on her.
@@bridgetkane2856 I would've loved for them to use this as an opportunity to highlight some new designers. Like her phone case caused a spike in camera-printed phone cases. They could've done the same with her wardrobe and new designers - missed opportunity.
Perfectly put 😂👏
Luxe Minds Totally! Not only would it have been a really good chance to highlight those younger, up-and-coming designers (who are also more likely to appeal to young people than established brands like Chanel), it makes a lot more sense for her character too.
This show seems dumb on so many levels...
The outfits are horrible when you combine them, but as separate items most of them are at least acceptable to the eye
I know we are supposed to find her very aspirational and cool with her fashionista outfits but I just find her very tacky.
You know what's the less chic and less parisian thing you can do? Go around decked head to toe in luxury brands to make yourself look rich when you can't even afford it.
So true! That's why the real Parisians looked so classy and chic and she looked like a sore thumb doing the most.
I watch this show for the love story not the outfits i'm french if you see girls wear beret anywhere you let me know it's even weird To see her without beret on her head🤐
Agreed. Just because you buy expensive items doesn't mean that you have good taste. Most of her outfits were extremely tacky and overdone.
😂@@12harrypotterfan34 True! Money can't buy style or class
@@12harrypotterfan34 if you think the outfits are tacky you must love black China and Kylie Jenner
i just loved how she could spend a fortune on clothes but didn't want to spend any money on learning French
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such a stupid comment, it's not meant to be real life it's a damn series
But she was taking French classes 🥴
@@bigpynkBut she's not dilligent. During 3 season, her french did not improved
It’s old for me at this point. We’ve seen too many characters with 0 years experience in an industry like marketing or entertainment with fabulous apartments and wardrobes that never seem to repeat an outfit... it’s just silly.
I definitely felt like a loser watching this with my STEM masters degree and my cheap ass second hand handbags.
Plus, she never seems to actually do any work lol. And when she does, she’s bad at it...yet for some reason, everyone around her idolises her work ethic (and her Americanness - lol)!
It’s actually pretty embarrassing that shows like this are still getting made. They may have worked on previous generations, when tv pickings were slimmer, but most people see through this crap now...at least, most young people anyway, and I assume that’s the target audience.
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 agreed.
Though maybe everyone should experience the disappointment of learning that their first “real job” salary after taxes covers nothing but a fraction of the bills 🤔💁🏽♀️😂😢
Exactly. So it’s silly when people take unrealistic concepts so seriously.
I feel like the show writers tried to make Emily seem aspirational, but it just came across as very out of touch. I much prefer when TV characters rewear some of the same pieces and have wardrobes that they could reasonably afford in real life.
100% agree.
Same writer from sex and the city. We never understood how Carrie was able to afford her lifestyle with her writer's salary.
I heard that in some episodes Carrie complains because she ran out of money and everyone around her was like "I saw it coming"
Plot twist: Emily was just so excited about moving to Paris because the debt collectors in the US were after her.
😂😂😂
This makes more sense than the show does.
Y’all. Emily is wearing knock offs from eBay and wish. That’s how she affords it
Imagine spending $100,000 to look that cheap.
Dolly Parton says it costs a lot of money to look cheap
@@madisonweber2480 but Dolly looks good!
Most people with money do. Nothing can buy class or taste.
If this was real life, she isn’t reporting that sugar daddy money to the IRS. Lol.
Next season Emily should go to a Casino or Carrefour and go grocery shopping like a normal person in France
yes! Would love to actually see her grocery shop and cook a meal at home like a real person
That's also always the most interesting part of traveling or living in a foreign country imo... restaurants get old fast and if you're new to the area it's hard to know which ones are good!
We have Carrefour here in Italy too, that would be so weird to watch! 😂
Auchan!
I would love see her leaving to Cergy Pontoise (the rent is lower) and using the RER A every morning. With the chanel purse :D
I could buy a whole new wardrobe from just 1 of those Chanel Bags 👀
It'd probably look way better than hers 😂
And with a few of them a whole house
Also, let's just assume her many suitors (literally every man who appears on screen falls in love with her) is giving her monetary "gifts".
Honestly if she was revealed to be a Sugar Baby I'd have a lot more respect for the show.
Yea then the many men would be more realistic too
Even more so if she went looking for a new "donor"
Not to forget daily Makeup and Hair costs, the Character wears at least Chanel, Nars and Charlotte Tilbury. If most of those costumes were Current Season , then for sure the character could have never been able to afford them.
ooh yes good point on hair and make-up! those add up quick!
I've been thinking the whole time I've watched the series that her hair was always perfectly styled and perfectly in place. There's no way that a professional young working woman has that kind of time, especially if she goes for a run before work. I'd sure love to see the tricks!
Let me get this straight, with the amount of money they spent...they still managed to make the majority of her style look absolutely mediocre? Damn.
Have you never met someone with too much money? Rarely do wealth and taste meet.
Both my parents are surgeons and earn a considerable amount of money, but neither they or I would ever dream of buying a blazer that's 4000ish dollars when you could get a comfy one at Bardot or Calvin Klein for far less. That money could go towards the unemployed or the homeless.
Honestly, yeah. I can understand spashing out on a fantastic and high-quality piece that will last for years and years when you have the means to afford it - but by "splashing out", I mean spending like $200, not $4000!!!
My cheap ass self read that first as 400 and was like yeah, that's way too much and then realized it was 4000. My brain can't even compute spending that much on a single piece of clothes lol
My parents are a doctor and a nurse, and they buy affordable clothes via online, Channel is basically for the 0.1% people who earns at least half a million per year
There are plenty of people who buy chanel blazers that make far less than two surgeons, good people who deserve to spend their money on chanel. I live in Portland Oregon and no amount of money has helped homeless here (I’ve paid for other people’s bills and groceries, I’m not going to feel guilty about buying luxury; the governments $500mil to homelessness has done nothing, not sure what allocating funds away from a chanel blazer would do after $500mil going to waste). Shaming people for how they spend their money is tacky.
Oof! I worked at a mid-sized zoo and our produce budget was around $500/weekly. So yes, she could literally feed a zoo. That comment just made me laugh.😆
No way!! hahaha
Damn
Thousands of dollars to look like an eccentric grandma 😬 yikes
Seriously how they mix and match emily wardrobe with that money to look like an elderly.
Oh c'mon don't insult all the eccentric grandmas out there. I don't think they want these either.
@@ritameow9227 yeah, at least an eccentric grandma whould knit,croche or trift her wardrobe, not spend a bunch of cash for a shit load of Chanel....
@@ritameow9227 then, apology for all the elderly out there. But honestly emily stylist definitely inspired by you all 😌
Probably because costume designer Pat Field is 79 years old.
She can’t afford to casually shop at Chanel that way. Unless “Emily’s family” is Phil Colin’s too.
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That "left over" money would go to utilities. 50$ would only cover water. And I may have missed it, but did you talk about transportation? 70E for metro and bus.
I didn't include transportation since she would bike to work and walk to nearby restaurants and have her friend drive her around but yes! Very true that transportation costs would need to be included as well.
@@moneymindss for transportation, there is a law in France stating that the firm you work for has to pay for at least 50% of your public transportation fees. Some firms pay all of it. (At least Emily cam save some money on this💰😂)
Why couldn’t they build a wardrobe and style that actually fit her character. She doesn’t work in fashion so her being a fashionista doesn’t make a lot of sense. Her salary does not match her style at all
This show is a perfect example of product placement gone wrong. I imagine a lot of those clothes were borrowed or gifted. They place gratuitous shots of Emily pacing just so we see the clothes. They took the same approach on SATC. It just feels formulaic to, once again, put a woman in clothes she can’t afford (here’s looking at you Carrie Bradshaw) and having her strut around the city. It was fun the first time around, but now feels outdated. Not to mention, one of the biggest criticisms of Carrie and SATC was her financial irresponsibility.
I mean you can be interested in fashion and not work in that industry . i love alternative fashion, almost all styles and i wear a lot of different styles..like maybe one day i am in dark accademia, another goth, another sweet lolita and in summer a lot of fairy core or what i like to call " casual 18 century" which is long floor lenght skirts, pirate shirts and corsets. And my job right know is training and studying to get into my country's police. So her being into fashion as a hobbie while working in non fashion related marketing it's fine. The problem is that as you say, her wearing all those brands with her salary makes 0 sense.
they tried to make her seem like a new carry Bradshaw, but carry really cared about the things she was wearing and had a real passion for her clothing + it was shown multiple times that she was in dept because of her lifestyle... Emily's whole point is that she knows nothing about fashion, yet she manages to only wear vintage/or last season's luxury clothing
Both series are total fantasies not meant to be true to reality.
Emily behaves like blair waldorf and Serena from gossip girls , but she forgot they are from super rich business class 🦧 unrealistic
Personally the only outfit I liked that Emily used was the one she wore to the Opera, the one that looks similar to Hundrey Hepburn, the rest of clothes are not quite ..great
yes!! She did look divine in that outfit and of course, that's what happens when you copy a style icon like Audrey :)
@@moneymindss yeah, but I wonder how much that outfit added to her credit dent.
Except, and I don’t say this with hate, because I love Lily Collins, but she is nooooo Audrey Hepburn. No one holds a candle to Audrey. She was a true original.
@@AngelaChase I agree. She was not just beautiful, she had a grace about her that maybe Lily Collins can reproduce at some point, but there's none of that here.
@@pirimpallopirimpalli4932 I think it was Audrey’s experiences during WWII that added a great deal of depth and complexity to an already sensitive person. Plus, the scene in Emily in Paris with that outfit was so misplaced. You can’t call yourself a “basic bitch” when you are wearing a headpiece and channeling Audrey Hepburn, IMO. 👀
it's the fact she spends more on clothes than rent for me
it's a damn movie!
This was why I liked the Marvel show Jessica Jones (when talking about wardrobe). They made a massive point of making sure Jessica’s wardrobe was grounded in reality. She only had a couple of pairs of jeans she wore constantly, her famous leather jacket, and a mix of a few basic tees. Reality.
Emily in Paris is created by Darren Star, creator of sex and the city. The show and characters are not realistic, they aren’t meant to be, it is intended to be an unrealistic fantasy. People are taking the show way too seriously.
thing is she looks exactly like the main character from the show "the ugly Betty" who everybody constantly bullied for her lack of style
I am dead😂 I couldn't figure out why my brain kept thinking this reminded me of something
Maybe she only uses one outfit at a time is she’s buying them, keeping the label on, wears it once and returns the items
Just a bottle of wine in a French restaurant cost at least 25€ (that’s without the meal) 😅
in reality she would have a French salary with French taxes, my best guess is she'd be starting at maybe 45 to 50K Euros for that job and her level of experience, and you can deduct almost a third of that as tax, health insurance etc so she's in fact working with a lot LESS than you say. Not to mention, there is no way anyone is spending less than 60 bucks on the dinners in Paris alone, and you're not counting all her excursions (travel costs - taxis, subway etc), so 'real Life Emily' is already doomed
On top of paying French taxes, she would also be paying American Federal Taxes as well
@@elvisherrera12 No she wouldn't, Americans living and working abroad claim the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion deduction, which writes off up to $112,000 in income (the amount rises each year with inflation) from paying taxes.
That’s why the show isn’t about real life, it’s about an unrealistic life. That’s what the writer and creator of the show does. Anyone looking for reality will be disappointed and that isn’t the creators fault. He doesn’t claim to be realistic, so idk why people expect his characters to be.
@@msi8311 Absolutely true. If I want to see real life, I can simply look into the mirror, haha.
I really don't want to see realistic life in a fantasy marketing-fashion series....
The worst thing is that she looks really, really bad in those clothes. So, spending so much money for looking this bad is even more of a stupid investment.
speak for yourself, i thought she was sexy in every outfit
I have to agree with you. She doesn't look terrible (Lily Collins could wear a hefty bag and make it look good!), but she looks like a teenager who's trying to emulate other people, rather than dressing appropriately for the type of job Emily does. She definitely needs to refine her look a bit more, to suit her age. Lily Collins is a tiny young woman that designers crawl all over one another to dress. But she is over 30. Her fashion needs to grow up with her, and reflect someone that deserves the respect she demands as a character. A lot of things just don't match up right now, but I hope Lily, as a producer, catches a few of these hints. She's a beautiful young woman (who, in the show, dresses like someone in her twenties, ready to go out to the bars), but she needs to ground this character a bit more, if she wishes to have longevity with it. I'll admit, though...I've never wanted to BE another person more than her, when it comes to getting to experience Paris as this character, and work with such a lovely, diverse and talented cast. I'm old enough to be the mother of Lucas Bravo...but this is one of the dreamiest, most genuine leading men I've ever seen...OH, la la!!
Omg this was such a great video!!😂 Literally the whole time I was watching the show, every episode I was like!?!? Excuse me Miss. Limited Edition Chanel Purse??
Hahaha thank you - I'm glad you enjoyed the video!! You would've thought Emily was a Kardashian with the amount of designer bags she was pulling out of her closet. Ridiculous!
Can you do this with the girls in euphoria because wtf
Truee like these broke high school kids wearing designer?? Nahhh
@@lee-ci8mj THIS PLS
@@lee-ci8mj to be fair they arent branded heavily and could easyly be selfmade/streetstyle
I really enjoy your tonality and presentation format, thank you for being to the point, genuine, and thank you for being intelligent.
Aww thank you so much for watching and your sweet comment!
Maybe she is renting the clothes? Tbh it's the lack of understanding about how marketing works - this would have been revolutionary 10 years ago but not now.
I’ve lived in Paris and now i live in Spain.... believe me.... eating outside every single day it’s so MUCH more expensive, way more.
Yikes! That’s why I prefer to cook at home more than eat out haha
She's a part-time sugar babe.
That explains a lot 😂
@@bitturuyal6850 And maybe Antoine is the sugar daddy
add on that she NEVER takes the Metro and takes taxi/ubers which are not cheap in Paris. My friend went less than 3 kilometers in Paris because the metro was closed this night and she was on her own.... 55 euro. thats 84 dollars in my country. and she always takes ubers or walks (which i still dont find believable), never takes metro or even use the bikes you can hire around Paris.
Same with Carrie from SATC, she writes for a weekly column. She has a two bedroom apartment with walking closet and separate kitchen IN MANHATTAN, buys 500$ shoes every week (often more than one pair), eats out every day, the staff at Prada know her by name.
They did mention Emily’s family on the show. I don’t remember exactly what where they discussing but she did say that they were middle class.
The phrase "all fur coat and no knickers" springs to mind.
I think the clothes weren't meant to see as 'designer clothes'. She even talked in one of the episodes about the fact that she only could afford a charm from an outlet store. I just think Chanel sponsored it and a lot of these looks you can recreate using affordable brands.
That explains a lot. But really how stupid do the producers think we are ? The Chanel logo is absolutely visible on several outfits. It's just absolutely emerging breaking.
She was also carrying shopping bags with highend logos, I get reusing the bags but if she couldn't afford the accessories or clothes from said brand how did she even get the bags?
@@nicolelouise9779 You can buy empty bags on eBay, apparently! They are in demand and people sell them - some people think they are being used to sell knock-offs in, but they could just be being bought by people who want a bit of prestige and empty bags second hand is all they can afford?!
@@elipotter369 Well I guess you can sell/buy anything. There's probably collectors which actually seems fun since those bags are really nice, but if you're buying those stuff to feel rich you might as well save up and buy something worthwhile. But I kinda feel for them, back before the pandemic, I'd carry all of the shopping bags and I felt like an absolute QUEEN even tho none of it was mine and they were mostly cheap/dull gifts I enjoyed carrying them. Idk what it was but I felt so confident and rich like those shopping montage moments in movies.
I just don't understand why Chanel would be up to making such a bad impression of their clothes? So many here have commented how tacky the outfits look, or that she looks like an excentric grandmother. And how Chanel doesn't really have the style they used to, how they've gone downhill. Though I don't know if being part of such a bad tv series is good publicity anyway.
$4000+ for a BLAZER?!?!? Holy crap yes very unrealistic though this show in general is pretty unrealistic . like the way she was portraying influencers was really unrealistic like unless she was some internet phenomenon she wouldn’t be able to grow a Instagram to that point so quickly as it was such cliche posts . (But I enjoyed it regardless now that I remember it I don’t remember her getting groceries
Right! such basic photos and captions like come on! if it were that easy - we'd all be famous influencers by now
I don't like this crazy expensive green blazer 🤐🤐
I would take out the healthcare expense since it's likely she's eligible for universal healthcare in France. I would also take out the 401k costs and just say she's financially illiterate on her retirement savings. The thing is being that generous still means she's living way beyond her means.
And people used to talk shit about Carrie Bradshaw, at least Carrie was a talented popular writer, there’s no excuse for Emily - basic Instagram girl
Thank you, this message is so important! I remember my 14y/o self really thinking my life is boring and feeling obligated to lie about it in conversation. So stupid!
I'm glad you found it to be helpful!
heres the thing, i would love if there was shows with financially irresponsible protagonists if the show actually reflected it. a character who spends all her money on clothing and has to deal with the ramifications would be really interesting bc that does happen. the problem with emily in Paris is that her spending doesnt have any real impact on the rest of her life. the show would be so interested if many she put herself into debt in order to appear "french" and then realized that 1) its based of a sterotype of the french and 2) she didn't need to do that to be fashionable and respected 3) you can balence things out
Honestly these outfits are even that well styled all things considered
I always wondered what goes in their minds when some girls walking on the street wearing those expensive outfits. Wake up->wear expensive clothes->walk on the streets->
no one gives a damn -> buy more expensive clothes-> walk again.
Finally someone notice this insanity
As a French person that has been living in Paris for +7 years now, the “fashion side” of the show was what I was most excited about.
It was the PERFECT opportunity for the stylists to channel that “french girl look”, very simple and nonchalant.
It blew my mind not only the huge amount of designer clothing/accessories Emily owns, but how she wears them so casually.
In Paris, you usually see young women wearing Zara/Mango to work everyday, and same their more “luxury” pieces for when they go out in the evening, to dinner, or in the weekends.
Also, Paris is FILLED with thrift stores, and although they can be expensive sometimes still, I found it crazy that for someone who claims to be so into fashion, not to go dive into the treasure chest that Parisian thrift stores can be.
Girl you are underrated! Keep it up!
You're so sweet, thank you so much for watching!
Awwwe! Love this show, the decor, cinematography, acting and yes her wardrobe! I love that you review the realities! 💚 Escapism is a good point. 💕 Wardrobe for the show did a good job of ESCAPISM.
Haha exactly! so out of this world with expectations on how a young women should be living her life and spending her money, sends the wrong message to people and leads to reckless finance decisions.
They could make her money problems a storyline in season 2. Would be something different
Great points and wise advise! 👍
I love this..!!!!! Its so helpful
ok but what if... all the branded stuff Emily wears are actually knock-offs
amazing video!!!
Thank you!
The show in general seems weirdly outdated to me. This kind of spending was semi-acceptable in Sex and the City because it was done well (and Carrie was in fact called out on her spending habits by friends), but this was also in the 90s-early 2000s. Emily in Paris goes for the same kind of vibe and simply comes across as being 20 years behind the trend, out-of-touch and generally a lazy copy of shows/films we've seen dozens of times already.
Great video. I was wondering about the same things. Could you make some videos about real world cost on those medical shows too, please?
As shown in Devil Wears Prada, since she works for a luxury brand it's possible a chunk of her clothes are rented/ loaned by brands. This is the only sensible scenario I can think of but that's still stretching it far.
I know it's not important but, here in Europe you have free healthcare so she wouldn't need to pay any health insurance in Paris. Unless that the company that she works for has an arragement with an insurance company, in that case, Emily won't have to pay any insurance because the company will cover it.
lol, this why volunteering at a costume hire store plus having workmates who are stylists comes in handy. I've actually learned that a lot of the chain stores actually have very similar stuff to what I see in the shows I watch, for a much more sensible price.
plus if I get lucky I can actually find a really awesome designer piece at one of the high street thrift stores.
Heck, there have been times when some very generous person has gone and brought a bunch of their old Forever New or old Zara dresses to my youth group's community wardrobe.
nice video. you got a new sub from Brazil.
This is awesome, such a cool idea! Yes I hate seeing so many characters spend way above their means constantly. I haven't seen the show, but is it possible she's thrifting or getting all these designer items secondhand? Especially if she's just entering the workforce and has an eye for the expensive. I'm a big advocate of shopping secondhand and keeping textiles out of landfills 🥰
Very interesting video. I don’t know much about fashion brands except that some of them are very very expensive. I always thought most of the clothes and other stuff used in movies and tv are knock offs than originals.
Oh my goodness! SO true
Do we see Emily ever doing actual work?
I feel like Emily dresses much "older" than her age. I know that in recent years Chanel, Dior, Givenchy etc. became very "mainstream", in the sense that younger women/girls save up to buy that stuff. I see 20something years old women with Chanel bags now, when I was 20 it was not a thing. Chanel was for the chic 40-something woman who could afford it because she had a great career or a rich husband. When I was 20, women my age wouldn't be caught dead wearing that famous Chanel-style blazer because that was considered "mum's clothes", it was "older women style". Things have changed of course, I think it's nice to see younger people looking into European brands, however a lot of the times I wonder if they actually appreciate the craftsmanship and the true cost behind designer stuff, or if they just do it because "it's fashionable and everyone is doing it".
Ooh interesting trend change over the years. I feel like in today's society with social media it's more of the latter than a true appreciation for the craftsmanship but who knows! To each, their own. I don't own anything Chanel so can't speak to it myself.
I'm convinced Emily is buying Ebay knock off clothes for like $15
That would have been such a great plot point if they had gone in that direction! Can you imagine the blow back from a Fashion intern caught wearing knockoffs at a company event?
maybe she's buying from wish.com 😆
OMG I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH ITS SO FUNNY FJJFJF
Emily in Paris is a Parody Comedy of how Americans working in Paris are trying to fit in! So lightened up People! 🌷🌿❤🇫🇷🇺🇸
How I know I’m already doing much better than Emily: I don’t even own a Chanel bag. Nor do I want one at this point, considering how ridiculous their price increases has been!!
Surely Emily would be paying French taxes on her income?
We also forgot transportation in Paris I just looked it up it’s about 65€ per month for the metro card ( I think she never took public transport in the show but Paris is big you can’t walk everywhere- especially not in her chanel heels on the cobblestone) but isn’t she also using Taxis/ride services...
her style in the series also goes against everything french women believe in when it comes to fashion. like literally every outfit is a parisian fashion faux pas in multiple ways.
If Emily had ever gone grocery shopping to a mall, she could have notice that Carrefour sells peanut butter
Question: why did you include health insurance if she lives in Paris?
Thanks a lot. :)
I like dressing nicely, but i am totally aware of my income.
I actually love that i can buy 'rip offs' from affordable shops because i cant afford it otherwise.
Also, i know its a tv show but why do they never wear the same outfit again?
unrealistic.
Wow that's alot she spend for clothes I could not spend 8,000 I normally spend maybe 100 lol the food part literally tru me off how so much she spent
I know the food part was crazy! Netflix did their own video on just the drinks on the show and that was $$$$ insane as well.
Emily is 28. Assuming 6 years of experience out of college and the fact that she’s senior enough to be relocated to replace her boss, she’s likely at an associate media director. In Chicago that’s around. $95k
I see your point and I totally agree, it's distracting. I think they were going for a The Nanny type of thing
Ooo good catch! I can see that inspiration being applied here
@@moneymindss great video!!
@@lovechildmag Thank you for watching!!
the executive producer of the show, darren star, also produced SATC- in which Carrie had an insane amount of luxury outfits which had no real correlation between her salary as a columnist
This show was pretty interesting to watch ahah it was low key kind of corny but still kinda cute. And oooo Emily be living the life with all the spending she been doing. Haha $70 dollars a day... is just crazy 😆 but I mean I love food too. It’ll trickle in on her soon maybe
a lot of good points here. If she uses Zara to recreate the wardrobe and let's herself get invited by all the guys and friends it can work out.
All I'm wondering is why there was never a scene where she was getting mugged on this show...it's already kind of a normal occurrence in Paris (and any big city, for that matter), even for people who aren't wearing thousand dollar outfits
Exactly! All these young illiterate people in shoes and movies complain about being broke all the time, but they never seem to suffer any consequences. They are still decked out in expensive clothes, go out to eat and drink and live in nice apartments.
And you have been pretty generous on the expenses related to the appartment. Just think about the electricity bill : around 120$ a month for this kind of appartment ...
Thank you. These sorts of shows, coupled with social media, really distort reality for people, but especially it seems for women. Men then have to date these women who live in these distortions, financially speaking.
I don't know if anyone remembers the show girlfriends but I distinctly Remember them having reoccurring clothing items like normal people and it madecthe characters seem more real
yes! I remember this
its so sad that people think buying designer clothes will make them feel important when really- it just like any other jacket or a purse out there. and going out to eat everyday is bad habit and does add up overtime.
A couple things... as an American who lived abroad, you don’t get taxed on your income until you make 105,000 USD a year and depending on your company, you might not be able to have a Roth IRA. If the “foreign” counterpart of the company does not have this service (which they won’t since it’s an American savings account) they don’t have to match your contributions.
Thanks for the details! I wasn't familiar with how it worked and I think Emily is only supposed to be working there for 1 year but we'll see what season 2 has in store...
_as an American who lived abroad, you don’t get taxed on your income until you make 105,000 USD a year _
That sunds really weird, which country was that?
In Europe, generally speaking, it doesn't matter what your nationality is, you pay income tax in the country where you live, just like everybody else, and you don't get a $105,000 tax deduction.
Are you sure you weren't evading local taxes?
@@Jacob_Junge I mean you don’t pay taxes on your income to the US. Every year you still have to declare to the US that you have foreign income but until that amount exceeds 105,000 USD, you do not pay taxes to the US. You only pay taxes to the US for the amount above 105,000. So if you made 110,000 a year you would only pay taxes to the US for 5,000 USD. The maximum amount changes on a yearly basis, it keeps increasing.
Local taxes are a different story. I lived in Dubai, where there were no local taxes until 2018 and even that was just a 5% VAT but no taxes on income. I’m 100% sure I was not evading local taxes lol 😂 there just weren’t any to begin with hahaha
@@somecherryblossom2757 Okay, I thought you believed that you wouldn't have to pay taxes in the country of residence. So, my point was that Whatserface in Paris would still have to pay 30-40% of her income as taxes in France, leaving her even less to spend on Chanel than Luxe had calculated.
What's still weird is that you guys have to keep paying US taxes when you don't live there anymore, but that's a different issue.
If we assume she’s adding to her 401k through her job it would be taken out pre-tax meaning Emily has even less money month to month 😭 I hope she’s being thrifty
And the outfits aren't even cute. Some of the pieces would maybe work seprately, and in any case none of what she's wearing makes any sense for her character
You are so funny!
Also 243$ has to cover transport too. maybe her company covers some idk. and maybe it's not much per se, but quite a sum when you have less than 250$ left. Add some minor everyday expenses - soap, toilet paper, laundry (or in her case I guess it's dryclean. LOADS of money for dryclean), etc. Add visiting museums, theatres, events...
And honestly I can't understand these clothes prices. I love quality things, but at the cost of one mediocre chanel jacket you can get a full custom-made costume uniquely designed for you.
when will we get the "thrifted/non-designer/cheap" versions of these shows??? like we wanna look good and we KNOW you can look expensive for so much cheaper, so why is there no show for that? 😩 (or if there is, can anyone recommend please? 🥺)
Waohh what a good job you did here, i agree completely un realistic don't forget she work for a luxury goods marketing agency her outfits maybe gifts this show want to give dreams To escape life,highlight RICH french way of life every famous french stuff food, luxury goods fashion, wine Champagne romantism i'm french this is NOT real life, just kind of a display case To fantasize
Very good point, she may have received some of outfits as gifts but it's still very excessive. Glad you enjoyed the breakdown!
@@moneymindss 😊😊yeah they could't make her wear h&m or Zara like every random girl there're😂 the dreams then?
Vietha BM Exactly! Much more realistic...we’ll see what happens in season 2 but I’m sure it’ll just be even more Chanel bags 😂😂
Her salary estimate is super generous, in Paris it’s more like €38k or about $42k in USD
That kind of lifestyle is perfectly fine as long as Emily has a sugar daddy in Paris like most people who live like that. :P