Global Supply Chain Telephone Handbag

Interpolated Brands: 1. 2. 3. 4.

First, we asked a
factory in Peru
to knockoff a Birkin
Bag it looked like
this → .

Next, we told a
factory in Portugal
to mash it up with
a Celine Bag . They
made this → .

Then we had a
factory in India
combine it with a Dior
bag it came out
like this → .

Finally, we asked a
factory in China to
merge it with a
Balenciaga bag .
This was the end
result → .

4 Factories, 4 Countries,
1 MSCHF Handbag.

Product Details:

Global Supply Chain Telephone Handbag is a hybrid luxury handbag designed entirely by cumulative factory labor.

STYLE: Handbag
SIZE: 27cm x 24cm x 11cm
MATERIAL: Leather, twill interior
ACCESSORIES: Detachable shoulder strap
COMPARTMENTS: Zippered front pocket, back pocket, interior card pocket

The handbag 手提包 El bolso de mano हैंडबैग

the packaging 包装 el embalaje संवेष्टन

final PROTOTYPE front + back views 最终原型正面+背面视图 अंतिम प्रोटोटाइप सामने + पीछे का दृश्य vista frontal + traseira do PROTÓTIPO final

FIRST PROTOTYPE 第一個原型 पहला प्रोटोटाइप primeiro protótipo

second PROTOTYPE 第一個原型 पहला प्रोटोटाइप segundo protótipo

third PROTOTYPE 第一個原型 पहला प्रोटोटाइप Terceiro protótipo

final prototype 第一個原型 पहला प्रोटोटाइप protótipo final

Manifesto:

Designed By The Supply Chain

Global Supply Chain Telephone uses–protagonizes–hidden creative labor from four factories in sequence (in Peru, Portugal, India and China) as the design process for the handbag.

the final prototype 最终原型 El prototipo final अंतिम प्रोटोटाइप

There Is Only One Tool In The World

The global supply chain is a single, enormous, merged ecosystem with myriad individual interfaces. We all, high enough up the chain, are using the same tool. And the tool is alive.

Hidden Creative Labor

Anyone seriously engaged with manufacturing understands the factory is not a computer, taking in perfect instructions and outputting perfect execution. The factory performs tremendous amounts of invisible creative labor. It is found in processes, mechanisms, or techniques that succeed when they cannot be spotted by the end consumer. It is creativity only evident, for example, in the way you cannot see a parting line. It happens in places where the designer doesn’t even know to provide instructions.

New Necessitates Innovation

The more novel the object in question, the more creative labor the factory performs. Never-been-done-before, by definition, means the process to create it is being invented on the go. To make things that are new requires a creative factory.

Tool Marks Are Never Neutral

Tools shape genres, though the tool marks may only be visible to those who are trained in its use. This is true from 808s to FL Studio, to Gravity Sketch, to Procreate, to Lapis Lazuli pigment, to airbrushes, to the introduction of the tomato to Italy.

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