Dionne Stax plays the colorless presenter at the public broadcaster, but in terms of clothing taste she likes it outspoken. Markedly expensive. “I buy sneakers for hundreds of euros!”
In addition to the fact that Dionne Stax takes about two hundred thousand euros a year at Omroep MAX, she has also hooked up a successful DJ with Steven Jansen (part of the duo Lucas & Steve). And they let it hang nice and wide. The NPO 1 presenter appears to buy all kinds of expensive fashion items these days.
Fan of Farfetch
Dionne says that Steven introduced her to the extremely expensive fashion site Farfetch, where you can enjoy shopping if you have sold half of your organs first. Think of denim jackets at 1,950 euros or skirts at 1,795 euros. Not about anything at all, but Dionne really likes this these days.
The presenter tells about this to the young target group of the magazine LINDA.meiden: “Thanks to my friend, I am also a fan of designer platform Farfetch. I always thought I needed to feel clothes between my fingers, but since corona I can be found much more online.”
Amiri sneakers
What does Dionne buy on Farfetch? Sneakers from Amiri for example. They cost average about 700 euros, with outliers above 1,000 euros. “I recently bought sneakers from Amiri. I immediately fell in love, but they were a few hundred euros, which I thought was a lot for a pair of sneakers.”
Dionne thought that was a lot for a sneaker? That’s just embarrassing to put on while the lines at the food bank keep getting bigger and bigger. “In my head I made up all kinds of arguments why I was allowed to buy them from myself.”
Worked very hard
What is an argument to buy sneakers of 700 euros? “With this one I would last a long time, and not have to throw it away after a season. I could combine them very well with a skirt or pants. And besides, I had worked really hard this month, so more or less earned them.”
And that’s what Steven told her all about. “My very first designer bag ever, an Yves Saint Laurent, was given to me by my boyfriend, Steven. For a long time I kept it in a box in the cupboard, for fear that I would damage it or forget it. Until Steven started complaining: yes hello, that was not the intention of his gift.”
Durable
Dionne is now just going out with that bag. “Now I grab the bag more often, although I am still careful with it.”
Then she takes even longer with that bag than with those sneakers. Or not? “I carefully go through my closet at the start of the winter and summer seasons. (…) I give away sweaters, dresses and trousers that I have not worn for a year to friends or relatives. Or I sell them for a few euros on second-hand sites. That is sustainable.”
This is what Omroep MAX-decadence looks like.