Quality or Quantity?

I had this discussion with a friend of mine today, and she said she'd rather have a lot of clothes from H&M or Zara than to have just very few expensive clothes.
I thought about it, and in my opinion, it's the best to mix cheap with expensive things. Because in the end, you benefit more from clothes that are good in quality even if their price is higher, because you can wear them for so many years.
What I do is that I buy important things like bags, shoes, jackets and jewelry from expensive brands, because those are the things that last the longest and that don't get out of fashion so quickly. Then I buy the less important stuff and things that are just in fashion for a short while which aren't so classy from H&M or Zara.
Adding a few expensive accessories to a basic outfit can make it look fantastic!

Here are my favorite clothes/things where I wasn't stingy with the money;

winter jacket /Belstaff

Ballerinas /Tod's

Bag /Gucci

Foulard /Gucci