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Originally Posted by truehappiness
Even before she was a star though, she said she liked clothes and shoes.. :\
Japan purchases 45% of all boutique-y goods [GUCCI / Louis Vuitton / etc..] so, I imagine that all Japanese people try to buy such luxurious goods when possible.
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Umm... not really sure how to reply, becouse you're basically confirming what I said, I didn't say she didn't like clothes/shoes before, and statistics about how much of the revenue of the luxurious brands comes from Japan also confirms my theories about the Japanese society.
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I mean, you've seen the dresses she's worn in her magazine shoots right? They're like six-seven figures in yen, which imo, is a TON for a simple dress.. but then again, this is Ayu. I think she might buy 3-5 of a certain outfit in like, different colors for lives and public appearances, because in the making of 1LOVE, she's wearing an average sweatsuit-thing.. 
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I bet most of magazine clothes aren't her clothes, especially when she's like 'changing style' or going for something like that WE MEN session. I think she rarely wears her own stuff for magazine shots and even more rarely buys anything solely for such purpose.
One thing I do have to admit though, is that she indeed appears in simple clothes when she's not doing public performances, like during all the off-shots, for example. It is absolutely possible she rarely goes for such buying sprees becouse she doesn't need all that stuff on daily basis, so when there's an opportunity to get some things, she takes adventage of it (thus so much money in such a short time).
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I really don't think it's a 'waste' necessarily, since Ayu is a shopper, and has been since she was a teen. :p
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Come on, just becouse you're spending money on something since you've been young doesn't mean you're not wasting them...
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I hate it when people say that spending loads of money on branded clothes and luxury-stuff is a waste of money.. I mean. It's not.. and even if it is; it's her money to waste. Besides; it's good for the economy AND it's obviously fun to do and cool to have... =) Go Ayu!
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It's problematic... the question is, do you need that stuff to live? If you don't, that's when it's called luxury... If you're spending money on things you don't really need, it doesn't have to be a waste - indeed. I don't like that word, since what wasting is to one person, doesn't have to be wasting to someone else... but when luxurious good are the major part of your spendings... are they really that important so that buying still makes much sense?...
And no, it's not really something especially good for economy... I mean... most of that stuff is way overpriced and sold for prices that are way higher then actual production costs - so that the designers can make big bucks. I think most of the money go to the designers' pockets, not really speeding up China's economy.