You know that spare $2 million you don't have lying around? Now you can not use it to buy what has to be one of the world's most useless luxury purchases: a solid gold Hermés handbag.
Famed French couturier, Hermés and jeweler/shoemaker Pierre Hardy have created a series of bags that pay homage to the company's famous Kelly and Birkin bags, with precious materials like gold and diamonds. The solid gold Kelly bag, seen at left, for instance, has been created to give the gold the appearance of a crocodile skin pattern, while the handle is studded with diamonds.
There are four versions of the bags, and only three of each will be produced, Styleist reports of the very expensive, very limited totes.
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The bags are also tiny, by necessity … solid gold in a regular-sized version would make the bag too heavy to carry, as Styleite points out. And The Financial Times terms them "functionally a bracelet."
Nevertheless, everyone seems sure the bags will be snatched up. Hermés CEO Patrick Thomas told the Times, "We are a little crazy here," while designer Hardy, when asked who he thought would make such a luxury purchase, laughed and said, "I have no idea … but maybe they will have two bodyguards!"
A $2 million purse that can't even carry your (now empty) wallet that requires its own bodyguards? Even if I had the money ....
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