A good bag is expensive. Sometimes it’s even hard to imagine how much.
Tanaka: super exclusive
Created by a great master from the Land of the Rising Sun, this miracle of design is stunning in its luxurious practicality! Ginza Tanaka managed to create a platinum accessory that can be easily disassembled like a construction set: a strap can replace a necklace, and jewelry decorating a bag can be brooches or pendants.
The largest diamond used in the decor of the bag weighs about eight carats. In total, over two thousand diamond stones weighing a total of two hundred and eight carats were used to inlay the jewelry and haberdashery masterpiece.
There is no second such model in the world and is not expected, which also affected the price of the jewel bag: in 2008 it was valued at almost two million. It is difficult to calculate how much it would cost the owner of such a thing to protect it if the accessory had an owner: after being sold only once, the handbag became an exhibit in one of the Japanese museums.
REFERENCE. The first decorated bag is dated by archaeologists to approximately the middle of the 3rd millennium BC.Several hundred dog teeth were used for decoration.
Five incredibly expensive bags
These bags are the dream of many fans of expensive accessories. Especially those that are made in a very limited edition.
Chanel Diamond Forever
The blatant luxury of a product made of genuine leather set in white gold and encrusted with diamonds (334 pieces!) forced everyone who decided to make such a purchase to become anonymous. Of the thirteen buyers, the most daring was the recognized queen of shocking Madonna, who showed up with an expensive “envelope” on a chain of white gold of the highest standard to a charity evening. Having shown off with an inaccessible mere mortal object, the diva sold it at auction for three and a half hundred thousand "green".
REFERENCE: The bag as a costume decoration, and not just a convenience, begins its history in the 14th century. Expensive fabrics, like velvet, have since been embroidered with gold and beads, and decorated with precious stones. The higher the status of the lady, the more expensive her uniform.
Lana Marks Cleopatra Clutch
Only a newfangled couturier could imagine the legendary Cleopatra with a clutch (and Lana Marx is exactly that!). The “unhistorical” nature of the name did not bother Helen Mirren, who showed up with a modest-looking handbag at the 2007 Oscars.
Appearances, however, turned out to be deceptive: the discreet light material turned out to be exotic alligator skin, in addition, “weighted” with white gold and diamonds right up to the quarter million dollars. During the crisis, such extravagance was considered bad manners, for which the actress was reproached by the entire world media. Having steadfastly withstood their condemnation, Mirren established a unique fashion for things from the Cleopatra brand among other inhabitants of Hollywood.
Urban Satchel Louis Vuitton
Designer Marc Jacobs was adept at connecting the incongruous by combining different materials even before this sophistication.In 2008, he shocked the fashion world with a product made from garbage collected at a city cleanup. Thus, scraps of a plastic bottle, pieces of tea bags and cigarette packs and other things traditionally sent to the trash turned out to be a designer product for one and a half hundred thousand dollars. Famous socialites with the image of brawlers - Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan - contributed to this.
Hermes Matte Crocodile Birkin
Created by the famous wife of Serge Gainsbourg, the bag model remains one of the most expensive to this day. In 2014, it was embodied in a version made of crocodile skin in different colors. A convenient product that looks discreetly expensive and is worth one hundred thousand dollars.
REFERENCE: The first bag, created according to sketches by Jane Birkin, was released in 1984.
Leiber Precious Rose Bag
It’s hard to call a fragile rose-shaped item made of diamonds, tourmalines and sapphires a bag. This one-of-a-kind creation by Hungarian Judith Libier stands ninety two thousand dollars. She clearly does not intend to repeat this experience.
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