A microscopic, knockoff Louis Vuitton handbag smaller than a grain of salt just sold for $63,750
that the collective hadn't obtained permission from Louis Vuitton to use the design. LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.The bag was made using"a stereolithographic process commonly used for making tiny mechanical biotech structures," according to its, and comes with a microscope featuring a built-in digital display of the bag for viewing.
"As a once-functional object like a handbag becomes smaller and smaller its object status becomes steadily more abstracted until it is purely a brand signifier," MSCHF said in the listing. "Previous small leather handbags have still required a hand to carry them — they become dysfunctional, inconveniences to their 'wearer,'" the listing says."Microscopic Handbag takes this to its full logical conclusion. A practical object is boiled down into jewelry, all of its putative function evaporated; for luxury objects, useability is the angels' share."
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