'Despite (Singapore's) image projected by the film CrazyRichAsians, not everyone can afford a Charles & Keith bag.'
Earlier this month, 17-year-old Zoe Gabriel posted on TikTok about her"first luxury bag": a tote bag from retailer Charles & Keith, purchased by her father for the princely sum of S$79.90 .
"Calling this luxury is the same as calling a fast food restaurant fine dining," said one snarky TikTokker. Zoe, who moved to Singapore with her family from the Philippines in 2010, told the BBC that while she was heartened by the online support, she felt"overwhelmed and sad" by comments that criticised her father, a mechanical engineer .
The city-state, which has some of the highest-paid ministers in the world, is a place of sometimes extreme contrasts, with glittering condominiums and towering facades just a stone's throw from one-room rental apartments inhabited by elderly and blue-collar families. Despite the image projected by the film Crazy Rich Asians, not everyone can afford a Charles & Keith bag.
"Singaporeans are attuned to minute differences in material positions [and] judge one another on the level of wealth accumulation," he told the BBC.
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