But Vuitton is in the business of creating preposterous fantasies around an object really just meant to hold your money and house keys.
Schumann needed to forge her own path, seemingly from scratch, and in the face of a society that found her pretensions to create music preposterous.
And yet Tarantino, to judge by his promotional interviews, wants it both ways: to create a preposterous entertainment and at the same time to have it taken seriously as a rewarding study of American slavery.
(The MTV "Making of" special on that one could be a movie in itself.) There's street drama in those videos, but not in this film; the computer-generated special effects used to create the preposterous motorcycle stunts already seem a little dated.
The blogger's fans responded by exposing, then mocking, the fake by creating even more preposterous fakes that pictured him standing with a series of figures, including Stalin, Napoleon, Hitler and a space alien.
That inclination explains some of the film's sudden shifts in mood and outlandish plot twists, both of which can be preposterous but also create tension, surprise and a sense of disquiet that borders on dread.
That's a preposterous position.
Whenever you're challenged to create something, ask yourself: What's the most outrageous, preposterous, and nonsensical thing I can come up with?
Trump's promise to create a net total of 25 million jobs qualifies as utterly preposterous.
The idea that individuals create wealth and that all governments do is come along and tax them is what Varoufakis calls "a preposterous reversal of the truth".
