Make it, and they will buy it.
Or at least that’s perhaps the thought behind creating a handbag that costs $2 million. Yep, 2 million bucks.
Hermes, designer of the already highly-coveted Birkin and Kelly bags that the rich and famous love to scoop up like candy, has created a new purse that makes the Birkin (which sells anywhere from a starting price of $9,000 up to over $150,000) look like a cheap buy.
The bag, designed for the Hermes haute bijouterie collection, has been created in four versions, with only three of each version being replicated—which means only 12 of the world’s richest people will be able to get their perfectly-manicured hands on one. The solid gold Kelly bag comes complete with a diamond studded handle and a crocodile skin pattern.
Estimated cost of the purse? $1.5 Euro, translating to approximately $2 million U.S. dollars.
And the strangest part about the extreme price tag? The bag is actually tiny. According 3m360, the purse is actually designed to be worn as a bracelet—which makes sense, considering the purse isn’t even large enough to hold a pair of sunglasses. Not that you actually spend money on this kind of piece because it’s roomy—but still.
It took accessories designer Pierre Hardy two years to produce the new bag.
"We are a little crazy here," Patrick Thomas, CEO of Hermes, told FT, mentioning that he was unsure who would be the ones to purchase such a piece but was confident someone would. "I have no idea. But maybe they will have two bodyguards!
