Gazeta.ru reports that the capital’s beauty salon has begun to accept Chanel bags as payment. Now you can use a luxury accessory as a kind of deposit: salon workers evaluate the bag, announce the price they are ready to accept, and if the customer accepts, the service is given for that amount. Salon has already announced the action on Instagram (the social network belongs to Meta, an extremist organization recognized in the Russian Federation).

After one of the customers forgot their debit card at home and Apple Pay no longer worked due to sanctions, the salon staff came up with the idea to introduce an alternative “currency” and then offered the Chanel bag. Having learned this story, other visitors of the hall became interested in this payment method – now there are four bags in the collection of the hall. They don’t make changes from handbags, but found another way to optimize that shopping at the salon.

– told in the hall.

Previously, the Chanel brand was at the center of a scandal due to its refusal to serve Russians in boutiques abroad. Representatives of the brand explained this with sanctions involving luxury goods – their import into Russia is limited.

After that, Chanel was criticized on social networks, and stickers with a portrait of Hitler with the brand logo instead of a face appeared in the brand’s boutiques in Paris and Moscow. Activists so Coco Chanel’s World War II.

The other day, information appeared on the network that Russians are not served in foreign boutiques of the LVMH holding, which, among others, includes Celine, Dior, Louis Vuitton.