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Dior's enormous purse-shaped barricade might be the best stand-in for scaffolding we've ever seen, but apparently it's confusing to customers. The shop erected the giant handbag in front of its 57th Street boutique to ward away shoppers while the store undergoes renovations, but according to the Cut, people keep showing up anyway. So the ever-considerate luxury brand came up with a perfect solution: "To avoid leaving customers out in the smelly, leather-marring 99 percent humidity that is Manhattan in August, Dior has arranged for a car service to shuttle them to the store's Madison Avenue boutique." [The Cut; Previously]