Really? People out of work, homelessness… Understand art, which is supposed to push buttons, but it’s not supposed to so grotesque as to offend its ENTIRE audience. Shame on her and Clint Eastwood for not teaching her any values or at minimum instilling some common sense.

People seem to forget that an animal had to die so it could be skinned to make that ugly-a** bag.

The bigger question is why does the frickin bag cost that much in the first place?

Let’s be real people that are outraged, even is they (or she) didn’t spend that money on a purse, they sure as hell weren’t going to give it to the needy, it would have went toward something else just as frivolous.

I don’t understand why people are mad about this in the first place because it isn’t their money being spent anyway but if you’re going to be mad at someone, don’t take it up with her, she’s just the model and she didn’t purchase the bag, Tyler did.

They have a right to spend their money as they wish (too bad they couldn’t think of something better to do with it…but hey, it’s theirs). I think it’s more ridiculous that a handbag…I don’t care WHAT it’s made out of…can cost $100,000 and that some people are crazy enough to pay that for it. But then, there are a lot of things that are skewed the wrong way in this world. I often wonder why people think it’s reasonable to pay a sports figure MILLIONS of dollars a year to play a game. That makes no sense to me either.

You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature – by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals – as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human

Okay Clint isn’t on the show because it’s not focused on him, it’s to get Dina’s group exposure. He gave his blessing for her to do the show & to allow their daughters to be on it. And the show has only had 2 episodes so far, so you haven’t watched it that many times. Francesca is 18, she can do what she wants. Besides, Tyler bought the bag, not her. He seems like he cares about her. You can’t judge someone’s full relationship after watching a 30 minute tv show. It’s edited to appear that way.

wow, people are really closed minded and didn’t get the true point of this photoshot at all. The point of it is that they’re showing that all that money was wasted on a pointless bag, it’s people burning money away on superfical things when there is more important things to spend ones money on like food for the ones less fortunette or clothing for them & so on and so forth. If you re-look at the pictures with that in mind that people are money hungry (her bitting the bag) & that spending it on such things is a waste then you’ll get the message.
Its a bag made from a dead animal that people pay way to much for it for fashion, you wouldn’t pay that much for a bag made from road kill would you? well most of you just said ewww but some do. Burning you’re money away when others could do something good with it like staying alive is the point they’re trying to get across here. People telling her to die and what not is just showing how messed up & twisted this world is getting and I feel sorry for the mess we’ll leave behind for the next generation.

Me too. I don’t understand why people are angry. It’s their money people NOT yours. If they want to waste THEIR money, save it, give it away or whatever, it’s THEIR business not ours.

I know things are hard for some people but the fact is it’s nobody’s business what they do with their own money.

Except that they actually wasted $100,000 that could have been donated to charity and ACTUALLY helped the less fortunate. It’s obnoxious. It’s a photo shoot, use fakes.

Um crocs are in Africa, Alligators are in Florida

I bet it’s just a really good knock-off and people are expressing outrage for nothing, which was probably the intended response.

Gutted with a chainsaw and then doused in gasoline and burned.

We get the point Kissofadaisy, but the problem with the point they’re making is that they are doing it by indulging in even greater conspicuous consumption with their stunt than the people who buy the bag, and that’s true whether they paid for the bag or whether they were given the bag as a promotional freebie. In other words, their artistic stunt completely undermined the message they were trying to send which makes it both pretty darn stupid and insensitive.

That bag is not even worth $100K, my roommate has the exact same Hermés crocodile bag in red except hers has silver hardware, and her bag only cost $20K. Yes still ridiculous price for a bag, but it was a gift form her boss for a landing a huge client.
I don’t know if the Tyler Shield’s bag really cost $80K more, or if they are just exaggerating how much it cost to make the art shot so much more controversial.

It’s things of this nature that make me absolutely hate rich people. There are children in this world that don’t have food, clean water to drink, a decent bed to sleep in, and these bitches are burning a $100,000 bag. These are the ones I would love to see spend a week in a mouse infested roach ridden, apartment, with the only thing in the fridge is a box of baking soda. I bet they’ll think twice before they even buy something so trival, much less burn it.

If you watched their reality show, you’d know that the other night, her step-mom, Clint’s wife, was very upset at her for buying the bag in the first place, because they do not spend lavishly like that. Her step-mom told her for the price of that bag, for instance, she could have bought 900+ decent $100 bags from Target. Or paid for a whole bunch of aid to either local homeless shelters, overseas 3rd world schools, etc. The idea of using the money for charity was brought up multiple times on camera. She was trying to instill in Francesca some sense of money, and that with their kind of money, she believes, comes a sense of responsibility, not entitlement. The girl turned her nose up at the $100 bags, and her little sister, the step-mom’s teenage daughter, called them ‘disgusting.’ I believe this stunt is Francesca’s extremely immature way of sticking it to her step-mom that she doesn’t care about money, or anyone but herself. It’s shameful, and I hope Clint cuts her off. It wasn’t “her money”- it was her dad’s.

yeah what he said! You guys totally miss the point. A $100K handbag is obscene, but destroying one is a meaningful artistic statement.

Who cares it is their money…they can do with it what they want…they got money to burn.

The real issue is why is her crazy boyfriend are always burning things and putting models on fire and making her stand on the edge of a bridge were she can accidentally fall into the water. He even had a baby holding a gas mask…..I’m tellin ya the man is on the edge, I think he is a little crazy especially when it comes to fire. Clint better beware of this guy with his young (18 years old) daughter the crazy boyfriend is in his 30′s.

If Mrs. Eastwood is truly concerned about the poor, why doen’t she bag all those unopened gifts in her house and auction them for chairity? Why throw them off the balcony? Why aren’t the Escalade, the Tahoe, the big ass Chrylser and the “I think I’ll take everybody to Hawaii” spontaneous trip considered to be greedy when she could be helping these poor people she pretends to cry about? Why not auction off the purse and build those schools in Africa instead of importing a mediocre boy band and using her husband’s name to get producers to listen to them (how painful that must be)? I am all for people doing what they will with their money…more power to them, but I don’t believe her or her air head, out of control self-absorbed kids are genuine any more than I believe Tyler Shields is anything more than a Jack Ass generation photographer.

Just a question, but are we going to get mad at the movies now for destroying 3 or 4 cars for an “action sequence”?

He probably got the bag for free!!!!!!!!!! hello? advertising for birkin???? ya think?

OMG…stop the press and get out! Lol I watch the show as well and she is right that HE bought the bag and told her he wanted to do a shoot wth her helping to destroy the bag. Although it is awful to spend that much money in this economy today and destroy it in front of ppl who are lucky enough to have a bag..but still if ppl can afford that crap who are we to tell them how to spend it. Oh and at least it was an alligater and not a cute lil pup…and that bag was prob a fake anyway or it was given to him by the company for more publicity… peace!

Your sooo right! To me he seems very creepy and like u said on the edge..he always puts Fran in danger to get a shot. I do wedding phots and what he is doing is very irresponcible.

They got thier point across, very wealthy people buy100,000.00 dollar purses. That would pay off most peoples morgages. Why are people poor dumb B%$£^s?.. because the wealthy who think YOU DON’T deserve health care, fair wages, decent education for you kids, retirement ect, buy 100, 000.00 dollar bags!!! Dumb butts, now you know!! They used thier own money. Maybe some people with money are starting to think it’s not right to hoard it all at the top.

Everybody seems to agree that 100,000 (or even 20,000) dollars is alot for a purse, but what is over-looked is that it could not hold up to biting, chainsaws or gasoline. For such alot of money, I would have expected somewhat better “Quality”……

I THINK DESTROYING THE BAG WAS A PUBLICITY STUNT TO INCITE PEOPLE AND HAVE
MORE PEOPLE WATCH THE SHOW TO KEEP IT ON TV AS MRS. EASTWOOD AND FAMILY
LIKE THE ATTENTION AND PROBABLY WANT TO GET POPULAR LIKE THE KARDASHIANS. I GUESS I HAVE DOUBTS IT WAS A $100,000 PURSE ANYWAY. REALLY SAD THESE PEOPLE
MAKE A LOT OF MONEY WITH THESE REALITY SHOWS WHEN THERE IS REALLY
NOTHING TOTHEM BUT A LOT OF NONSENSE. I CAN’T IMAGINE CLINT BEING ENTHRALLED WITH THIS GOING ON BUT WANTS HIS WIFE TO DO WHAT SHE WANTS I GUESS. I WATCHED THE SHOW BUT WILL NOT WATCH IT AGAIN.

A) it’s their property. B) it’s art.

We never bat an eye about aston martins or ferrari’s being destroyed by hollywood moviemakers, do we? Why should we care about what these people do with possessions? Shouldn’t we be more concerned that Birkin is selling pos handbags for $100,000?

I agree with the first part but when you started saying stuff about Francesca I was like what the fuck are you talking about Tyler bought the bag it wasn’t her dads money and Morgan didn’t call it disgusting Dina did so get your facts straight before you go an start saying shit about people

He can do whatever he wants with the items he bought with the money he earned himself, who gives a shit. Honestly the people that are making death threats are stupid maybe instead of sitting at their computer trolling they should go out and make their own money and never mind what other people do with theirs. So stupid.

it was also to prove a point on how stupid it is to pay that much for a damn handbag. I think it’s great. and it made for some kick ass photo’s