The Internet Reacts to Balenciaga's Leather Lay's Chip Bag - PEOPLE

Balenciaga is erstwhile again raising eyebrows with its latest manner creation.

On Wednesday, Balenciaga's originative director, Demna, posted Instagram photos of the luxury manner brand's newest accessory, the Lay's x Balenciaga leather spot bag, an imitation of Lay's bags featuring a "Balenciaga Paris" label. But alternatively of the mean retail worth of $4 for the fashionable snack, these bags volition reportedly outgo a snack-lover $1,800.

There are 3 antithetic high-end snack bags, each representing 3 of Lay's galore spot flavors.

The net instantly had a tract day.

One idiosyncratic tweeted, "If anyone buys the Lays Balenciaga container past it proves that their societal experimentation is working. Yall volition bargain thing that's a sanction brand."

"Balenciaga conscionable doing immoderate astatine this point," different idiosyncratic wrote successful Denma's Instagram comments section.

Consumers had a akin absorption erstwhile the Kim Kardashian-approved marque released its fashionable "Paris" high-top sneaker successful a caller "full destroyed" style, implicit with tearing, smudging, and a graffiti logo backmost successful May.

"Balenciaga is truly charging radical $1850 for the brace of torn up converse that my ma begged maine to propulsion retired erstwhile I was successful precocious school," 1 Twitter idiosyncratic commented.

Another Twitter idiosyncratic accused the Balenciaga squad of trying to "troll everybody."

Lay's, however, seems to beryllium rather contented with its collaboration with Balenciaga and expressed enthusiasm aft the bags debuted successful the Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2023 "The Mud Show" presumption during Paris Fashion Week connected Oct. 2.

They shared a clip of the brand's manner amusement with the models accessorizing their looks with the connection bags, which seemed astatine the clip to beryllium unmarked purses due to the fact that the models had them scrunched up successful their manus arsenic they walked the runway.

The institution captioned the Instagram video, "Our runway moment. Lay's Bag by @Balenciaga," noting that the leather bags volition beryllium disposable for acquisition adjacent summer.