You can do a lot with 10,200 euros, for example watch Netflix for a good 65 years.

At least if the subscription prices of the streaming giant remain stable for years to come.

Or you can use the money to buy a genuine leather fringed jacket embroidered with chains.

Netflix also offers this for 10,200 euros – in cooperation with the Parisian luxury label Balmain.

Co-operations in the field of high fashion are nothing new, on the contrary: one could almost claim that they have become the lifeline of old and venerable fashion houses that hope for rejuvenation through this very collaboration.

Does Netflix have serious fashion ambitions?

What is new, however, is that a streaming service, far removed from all advertising and logo shirts, expresses serious fashion ambitions and cooperates with a label like Balmain.

And that several thousand euros are estimated for the products, which is a lot even for the Parisian label and even more for a Californian company whose aim is to make films and series accessible to the masses.

Admittedly, the real leather jacket is an extreme case, other parts of the collection – jackets, pants, skirts – are only priced in the mid four-digit range.

Incidentally, the Netflix Balmain series was inspired by a film that the streaming service financed with a lot of money.

It's called "The Harder They Fall", a western that was released at the end of 2021 and that hardly anyone in this country knows.

That in turn is a fact that makes you ponder what Netflix actually wants with this hybrid of luxury fashion and classic fan merchandise: make film and series fans happy or serve the catwalk?

There are also printed socks

The results of other collaborations between Netflix and other brands -- not quite as famous and certainly not as classy as Balmain -- are clearer in that regard.

If only because they have a simpler design: single-color T-shirts with the Squid Game logo;

white socks with "Netflix & Chill" written on them in red.

And because they should also be affordable for the average Netflix user.

A table, which of course cannot be worn on the skin, should also be mentioned at this point.

You can find it on the Netflix site, where you can also find faux fur blankets and bathrobes (the company seems to be very aware of the cozy circumstances in which its services are used).

Because for this 69-euro table, Netflix worked with the Louvre of all places - and that to promote a series, "Lupin", in which things are stolen from just that world-famous museum.

The author of these lines now also feels robbed, but not by a thief, but by Netflix.

Because, among other things, he ordered the table in question, paid for it and has been waiting for three months for it to arrive.