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Today’s society is often used to describe the appearance of a woman, but that the character of an independent girl. Yes, if you use one word to describe BOY CHANEL, then the girl more appropriate than the word, and the traditional feminine handbag different, various retro, metal, do the old, punk and other elements with the finest leather, elegant car suture, perfect lines of integration, demonstrated firmness and flexibility with the nature of the US free.
BOY CHANEL calfskin flap bag, decorated with tweed and chain details.
BOY series of bags in the season, the favorite is this wonderful mix of leather and woolen. Winter patent leather bag cowhide face can not always give a warm feeling, if coupled with tweed fabrics, both to bring a little bit of warmth in winter, yet elegant.
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Louis Vuitton
Whether or not you like the brand's ubiquitous logo bags, one thing is inarguable: Louis Vuitton is the biggest handbag brand in the world. Not only does it sit atop luxury industry indexes, but it has a handbag history as long and storied as any in fashion. In fact, that history is one of the things that keeps customers coming back, even with all the options currently available from other brands.
You could spend all day reading about Vuitton's lineage and changes through the years, but if you want to brush up on fun facts or fill some knowledge gaps, we've picked some choice tidbits about the brand's journey over the years. Check 'em out below.
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1. LOUIS VUITTON'S CAREER STARTED WITH A JOURNEY OF NEARLY 300 MILES, ON FOOT.
These days, if you want to design handbags, all you have to do is go to fashion school and then hustle wisely in the industry for a few years. Back in 1834, Louis Vuitton had to hoof it from his hometown of Anchay to Paris on foot in order to get his start. He started his journey at the tender age of 13, and it took him two years to arrive in Paris because he had to stop and work along the way in order to survive.
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2. LOUIS VUITTON, THE MAN, GOT HIS BIG BREAK AS THE OFFICIAL BOX-MAKER AND PACKER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE'S WIFE, EMPRESS EUGENIE DE MONTIJO OF FRANCE.
Box-making and packing were respected professions in mid-19th century Europe, and Vuitton's appointment in 1853 elevated his profile among Europe's elite. While under the empress's employ, he was charged with carefully and beautifully packaging her wardrobe for transportation among the country's various royal residences.
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3. THE ALMA BAG WAS CREATED AS A SPECIAL ORDER FOR COCO CHANEL.
She wasn't the only French icon to influence the creation of a Louis Vuitton bag, but she was the first. Chanel special-ordered a day-sized version of the Alma Voyage for personal use in 1925; the same bag was put into regular production in the 1930s.
4. AUDREY HEPBURN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF THE SPEEDY BAG AS WE KNOW IT.
In 1965, Audrey asked Vuitton to turn the popular Keepall travel bag into a miniaturized day bag that she could carry regularly. LV obliged, and it was then turned into a regular-production piece that has since become a signature for the brand.
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5. THE NOÉ BAG WAS DEVELOPED TO HOLD BOTTLES OF CHAMPAGNE, AND IT STILL CAN.
Many of Louis Vuitton's innovations were made in response to Very Fancy Problems, and the Noé is chief among them. The world's first bucket bag was designed to carry five bottles of Champagne: four with their bases down, and then a fifth inverted in the middle. The biggest Noé in LV's current lineup can still carry that load.
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6. BOTH LOUIS VUITTON'S FAMOUS DAMIER AND MONOGRAM PRINTS WERE CREATED TO AVOID COPYCATS.
Vuitton's first trunks were striped, and they were widely copied by less famous Parisian trunk-makers. The check print now known as Damier (which literally translates as "checkerboard") followed in 1888, but competitors latched onto it, too. Vuitton developed its monogram in 1896 in response to those counterfeiters because it was more detailed and, therefore, harder to imitate with the era's available technology. Sadly, the same thing cannot be said about 2016. Ironic, huh?
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7. LOUIS VUITTON DIDN'T GET AN ALL-LEATHER BAG LINE UNTIL 1985.
Modern handbag shoppers may think of Louis Vuitton as a brand with one of the largest, most diverse product assortments in the entire luxury market, but the brand's ascendance to that spot happened gradually and over the course of decades. The Epi Leather line, introduced in the mid-80s, was LV's first permanent collection of leather bags.
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8. LOUIS VUITTON DIDN'T HAVE A CLOTHING LINE OR CREATIVE DIRECTOR UNTIL 1997.
Modern consumers think of Louis Vuitton as a full-service fashion brands that makes everything from evening wear to keychains, but for over a century of its history, LV was accessories-only. That changed in 1997, when execs at LVMH (the conglomerate that resulted when Louis Vuitton merged with Moët Hennessy in 1987) hired Marc Jacobs to found the brand's ready-to-wear collection and oversee the aesthetic evolution of Louis Vuitton as a fashion brand.
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9. LOUIS VUITTON PIONEERED THE ARTIST COLLABORATION, WHICH IS NOW COMMONPLACE ACROSS FASHION.
In 2001, Marc Jacobs brought in world-famous contemporary artist Stephen Sprouse to graffiti-embellish some of the brand's most iconic monogram bags. The results were incredibly popular, which lead LV to collaborate with artists like Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama and inspired competitors to explore the artist-designed capsule collections as well.
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10. MUCH OF VUITTON'S EMPIRE IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO A TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE MADE IN 1959.
THAT YEAR, ACCORDING TO VOGUE UK, MANUFACTURERS CAME UP WITH A BREAKTHROUGH IN THE COATING PROCESS THAT MADE COATED CANVAS THINNER, SOFTER AND MORE PLIABLE. THAT MADE THE MATERIAL MUCH MORE APPROPRIATE FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANDBAGS, WHICH MADE THE LV WE KNOW AND LOVE TODAY POSSIBLE.
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We know most Celine fans are luggage, trapeze and phantom hunters, these bags are like drugs, you just can’t get enough from it. It’s like salt water, the more we drink, the thirstier we get.
But we though the Celine Pocket Handbag in Seashell was not very important enough to review, until we received a question from Tiff: ‘Can someone tell me the price of the Celine Calfskin Pocket in Seashell?’. Tiff was referring to the latest Winter 2014 Collection of course, but if we take our time to review the Fall 2014 Collection, you can see that this bag is released in both collections.
Two collections and 1 type of bag is enough to draw our attention.
The Celine Pocket Handbag in Seashell is a shoulder bag and it looks kind-of funny – like an envelope. It’s designed in the Celine way, which means tri-colors (you know how Celine love to mix colors).
The bag is squared and it comes with a golden chain strap. The bag can be closed with the snap embellished on the front flap. It’s crafted from smooth calfskin, but also available in stamped pony for the fuzzy bag lovers.
The colors are perfect for the fall and winter – it’s darker to match your winter wardrobe. So what do you think? A bag to love or not?
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Another day, another Birkin sold for an astronomical price. This time it’s a 35cm 2008 bag in cherry red “Braise” crocodile skin with 18-karat white gold and hardware that’s embellished with diamonds that sold for the princely sum of $298,000. This bag has already changed hands twice with each owner probably making a hefty profit since it was purchased from Hermes for just $160,000.
This time, it was sold by Privé Porter to an anonymous buyer (for a named price) from Los Angeles. Effectively smashing the previous record held by a very similar bag.
“Even with the sheer volume of Birkins we’re offered daily, we are very careful about the bags we actually buy. Is the color special? When was it produced? How rare is it? But we knew that when we had the opportunity to acquire this Braise Croc, we’d stumbled upon one of the special Birkins, the way a horse trainer may see a newborn and know that’s a Triple Crown winner someday. We hoped to sell it to someone who appreciated the bag as much as we do, and from what we understand, the buyer is a very sophisticated collector who genuinely understands how special and rare this bag is. Which is reflected in their willingness to pay the record price,” Privé Porter co-found and Managing Director Jeffrey Berk told PurseBlog.
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HERMÈS NEWS
It was just last June that we reported to you about a new high in handbag resale prices: Christie’s Hong Kong had just sold a pink crocodile Hermès Birkin for a record high of $221,000. That record didn’t even make its first anniversary; earlier this week, Privé Porter announced it had broken that record with a $298,000 Birkin of its own, and it’s one that will look familiar to PurseBlog readers.
Privé Porter is a resale business that focuses on unused (but previously owned) Birkins and operates primarily via Instagram, where it’s able to reach a worldwide audience of shoppers looking to add rare handbags to their collections. In November, Privé Porter hosted a pop-up Birkin yacht at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, and Megs and Vlad were among the attendees who got to peruse the collectible Birkins. The new record-breaker was among the bags in the selection, and it appears in our photos of the event, including the one above.
The bag is a 35cm Birkin in Braise shiny Porosus crocodile, finished with 18-karat white gold encrusted with pavé diamonds, at a total weight of more than ten carats. It was manufactured in 2008 and sold to a US buyer via the brand’s New York City flagship on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Privé Porter acquired the unused bag from the original owner in 2015, and it was purchased from the company by a Los Angeles-based buyer who chose to remain anonymous. The Christie’s bag can still technically claim the title of the most expensive handbag sold at auction; this Birkin sold at a named price with no bidding.
We spoke to Privé Porter co-found and Managing Director Jeffrey Berk, who had this to say of the bag and its sourcing process: “Even with the sheer volume of Birkins we’re offered daily, we are very careful about the bags we actually buy. Is the color special? When was it produced? How rare is it? But we knew that when we had the opportunity to acquire this Braise Croc, we’d stumbled upon one of the special Birkins, the way a horse trainer may see a newborn and know that’s a Triple Crown winner someday. We hoped to sell it to someone who appreciated the bag as much as we do, and from what we understand, the buyer is a very sophisticated collector who genuinely understands how special and rare this bag is. Which is reflected in their willingness to pay the record price.”
Hermès reds and pinks are particularly sought-after shades for collectors; a Rouge H (which is a bit deeper than braise) Birkin set a sales record of over $203,000 back in 2011 via Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, and the most recent record holder from Christie’s in Hong Kong was bright pink. Recently, handbag resellers have been trying to convince the buying public that Birkins are a better investment than stocks or gold bars, and if you’ve got a red or pink croc Birkin at the ready, that just might be true.
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Just in time for the holidays, Louis Vuitton rolled out its 2016 Cruise collection, and with it, plenty of City Steamer bags to lust over. The smart silhouette features an easy-to-tote structure and sophisticated details like a small gold padlock and optional monogram. But the luxe style you're looking at right now? That's the beige crocodile version, and it retails for $55,500, making it the most expensive LV handbag ever.
Don't get us wrong — we'd be hard-pressed to find something wrong with the impeccably crafted accessory. In fact, its neutral color and patent finish make it the perfect wear-every-day bag. But would you shell out the cash for this City Steamer? Or, better yet, add it to your holiday wish list? Read on to see Michelle Williams model the design in more standard colorways, then admire LV's priciest offering once more, and let us know if it's worth the splurge in the comments section!
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