Cashmere Mafia

I’ve seen advertisement for the new show Cashmere Mafia on ABC and found that I could watch it online. From the previews it looked like a combination of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. A scene in the beginning of the first episode caught my attention. One of the main woman characters and her husband are walking their two kids to school and the daughter mentions that she wants a Marc Jacob handbag. She is only 8 years old and she knew what a Marc Jacob bag is. Not only did she know what the bag was but also wanted one because someone in her class got one. Her mom replied how you know about Marc Jacob bags and her daughter replies snotty everyone knows about Marc Jacob mom. It makes me wonder what we are teaching children. She is only 8 and wants a bag that goes for over $2,000. What is the media portraying to children and teenagers to make them think that they need to have designer accessories? Could it be from magazines, movies, shows, and the celebrities that they look up to? It was shocking to hear a little girl tell her mom that she needed an expensive Marc Jacob bag when it’s unattainable for most of us to have.